Gringotts, Harry's gold and broomsticks (Was Nimbus 2000)

[Diana <dianasdolls@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48582

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "uncmark" <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> Concerning Harry's Nimbus 2000
> Gretchen wrote:
> >This small detail has been nagging at me for a few years now. 
> > Where did the Nimbus 2000 come from? We know that 
> > McGonagall "sent" it to Harry, but who paid for it? Would she 
have 
> > paid for it herself? Would she have made arrangements for the 
> > money to be taken out of Harry's vault at the bank? Can she do 
 

I believe McGonagall paid for the broom herself, from her own 
money.  Why?  Because Snape has obviously been lording over her 
Slytherin's many-years-in-a-row wins at Quidditch.  She probably 
figures it is a good investment of her money because it will restore 
her pride in her house Quidditch team, and by "Prisoner of Azkaban", 
it is as Griffyndor finally wins the Quidditch Cup.

As for the goblins at Gringott's bank, I believe their primary 
concern is with protecting the money in their vaults - nothing 
else.  More than likely they wouldn't report Sirius Black accessing 
his own money to buy Harry Potter a Firebolt because I doubt they'd 
care if Black was a wanted criminal - just as long as he has his key 
or password or whatever to his own vault.   

The same goes with Molly Weasley fetching money for Harry Potter out 
of his vault while he's at the Quidditch World Cup.  As long as she 
has permission from the vault's owner (Harry), they will allow her 
access.  I'm more curious about why Harry allowed Molly Weasley to 
pick up some money for him from his vault when he'd gone to the 
effort to try to hide their view of his piles of money (compared to 
the Weasley's pitiful pile of coins) out of embarassment over his 
wealth just the year before.  Maybe Harry felt better about it 
because the Weasley's had won the Daily Prophet Jackpot that summer 
and went to Egypt?

Diana