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

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 36990

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 
that?

"Jedi Knight Jo" <jloveys at z...> wrote:
> Good question. I've thought about this before too. It seems to be 
> inferred in the books that she paid for it, but why would she show 
>that much preferential treatement to one student? 

> I also don't see how she could have made arrangements for the money 
> to be taken out of Harry's vault - it's his vault and his money, 
> and banks don't tend to let people take money out of someone else's 
> account. Of course there's nothing stopping her telling Harry 
> she'd make arrangements to get him a broom if he paid - it could 
> have been an 'off stage' conversation not considered important. 

I posted a few times with a theory of a Wizard-Guardian. Harry's Gold 
is probably unique in the wizarding world for a few reasons:
1. Harry is an orphan of wizards with no known surviving wizard 
family.
2. He has a large (huge, whatever) wizard inheritance in Gringotts.
3. He has muggle blood relatives.
4. Harry did have a Wizard godfather (Sirius) who was incarcerated 
for his part in Harry's parents death.

>From Sorceror's Stone, we see Dumbledore has a PERSONAL interst in 
Harry. He personally supervises Harry's arrival at the Dursleys and 
sends Hagrid, his most trusted ally to first deliver Harry and 11 
years later to take Harry from the Dursley's and show him Diagon 
Alley.

Still Dumbledore never entrusts Harry's gold to the Dursley's or even 
informs them of it (Good Thing)!!

If you reread Harry's first visit to Gringotts, notic3e two important 
points. 1)Hagrid has the key to Harry's vault. (I'm assuming he was 
entrusted with it by Dumbledore) 2) Dumbledore WRITES A LETTER to 
Gringotts allowing Hagrid access to vault 713. The goblins accept 
this, and I assume have some magic to verify the letter is not a 
forgery.

Interesting point, though. WHY did Dumbledore have the key in the 
first place? I suggest that in Harry's specific circumstance the MoM 
named a wizard guardian to oversee Harry's wizard affairs in the 
absence of Sirius.

So who oversaw Harry's delivery to the Dursley's? DUMBLEDORE! 
Dumbledore gave NUMEROUS reasons in SorSt why Harry should be raised 
among Muggles and considering he is over 150, I can see that he was 
not up to raising a baby himself, but I suggest that he still 
oversees Harry's upbringing closely. (As late as the end og GofF, 
Molly Weasley wanted to take Harry home for the summer and she asked 
Dumbledore, not the Weasley's)

Concerning the Nimbus 2000, Dumbledore might have wrote Gringotts 
authorizing Harry's money to buy the broom. By all descriptions, 
Harry's gold is so much he would not have missed it.

In GofF, Molly Weasley goes shopping for Harry. I suggest either she 
had Harry write a note to Gringotts (offscreen) or Dumble dore ok'ed 
it. I believe Dumbledore might have sent a few galleons to the 
Weasley's quietly for Harry's room and board.

Concerning the Firebolt, I wonder how independent Gringotts is from 
MoM law. They allowed Sirius, an escaped convict, to order a broom 
for Harry from his vault? Sounds problematic if Cornelius Fudge ever 
paid attention.

Uncmark