[HPforGrownups] Gringotts Was (Re: Where did the Nimbus 2000 come from? )

[Terry van Ettinger]

No: HPFGUIDX 36964

I never really thought about that much myself.  I figure it may very well be
one of those things I call "housekeeping details", details where our not
knowing them doesn't affect our understanding of the important points.  It
probably wouldn't have affected the final outcome of the book no matter what
the answer to that question was.

Terry
From: "zoehooch" <zoehooch at yahoo.com>
> Just because there isn't an explicit scene in the book where Harry
> gives Mrs. Weasley the key or some kind of formal permission to enter
> his vault, doesn't neccessarily mean that such an occurance didn't
> happen.
>
> To have such a scene doesn't really advance the plot. I suspect that
> JKR had to make extensive cuts to GoF just to get it to its present
> length.