[HPforGrownups] Re: Gringrotts Security

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 42596

> Yoris wrote:
> "On the end of PoA Sirius writes in a letter to harry, he tells him "i used
> your name but told them to take the gold from Gringotts vault number seven
> hundred and eleven - my own."
> How could Sirius use Harry's name to acces his own vault? because for the
> people in the bank it would seem like Harry asking money from SOMEONE ELSES
> account, and why would they grant such a request?"

I thought about this - and here's a possible solution I came up with. Just speculation 
of course.

Sirius was Harry's godfather. It's certainly possible he may have left Harry his 
money in a 'will' or some other legal document (a will isn't the best choice as he's 
still alive - but there could be some legal mechanism that allowed his money to be 
passed on to Harry if certain events occurred - such as his death, incapacitation, or 
imprisonment). Perhaps Harry has had a legal right to Sirius' money since Sirius 
was sent to Azkaban.

An alternative - perhaps given the Wizarding world's apparent retention of old 
customs, some sort of 'danegeld' situation applies - Harry has a right to Sirius' 
assets because Sirius was involved in the death of his parents (maybe Voldemort's 
fortune is kicking around in a vault somewhere as well - waiting for Harry to claim 
it... making Harry a kind of Heir to Voldemort...)

In that case, it's possible that the money wasn't moved to Harry's vault because 
there was a stigma attached to it - maybe somebody decided that Harry might not 
want money that came from a Death Eater who had apparently murdered innocents 
in an effort to escape responsibility for the death of Harry's parents - the money was 
legally his, but somebody decided that it should be his decision - when he was old 
enough - whether to take it, or not. Sirius knowing this, may have written a letter in 
Harry's name asserting his right to the money.

Just a possibility.


 

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