[HPforGrownups] Who is paying the bills?

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 43659


but it isn't likely that he can walk into Gringotts and make a withdrawal.
If he sends Lupin there, I think the MoM would be watching for that too.
And wherever Black sends his gold to pay for those weekly expenses would
eventually attract attention, don't ya think? How would you manage this if
you were Lupin and Black?
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Well, Gringotts seems like a very... independent organization to me. I bet
they have a lot of leverage with the MoM. Think about it, they're the only
wizards bank, which means they have offices not only in Britain but all over
the world where wizards live, right? So if they get into a fight with the
MoM in Britain, then it's British wizards who will suffer from lack of a
bank, but not the bank.

My point is, perhaps Gringotts think it's bad for business if MoM monitors
certain accounts? I bet they don't have a problem with anyone unless they're
a bank robber. Black isn't a bank robber, so it's possible that Gringotts
wont' bother putting his vault under surveilance and won't allow the MoM to
poke its nose into Gringotts business.

After all, when Sirius indicated his own vault on the mail order form for
the Firebolt, no one seemed to get alerted about any recent Firebolt buys.

Yes, Hermione did (just to be paranoid) and McGonagall did too, but
something tells me that if McGonagall knew that Sirius Black used a mail
order form to buy a Firebolt then she would've acted differently. Probably
would've taken it away to be destroyed rather than stripped.

Alina of Distant Place
http://www.distantplace.net/



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