The One and Only Gringotts Bank?

[bboy_mn]

No: HPFGUIDX 43742

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure, is Gringotts but consensus of the group (since 
> > canon is lacking) the only wizards bank in the UK? ...in Europe? 
> > ...in the 'western' world? .....in the world?
> >
> > If it's the only wizard's bank in the world that solves a major
> > problem I'm having in one of my fan fiction stories.
> >
> > So.... What say you all?
> >
> > bboy_mn
> >
> 
> "Wizards have banks?"
> "Only one. Gringotts."
> 
> It may not be word by word, but thats' the conversation between 
> Hagrid and Harry when Harry visits Diagon Alley for the first time,
> getting his school supplies for Hogwarts.
> 
> Alina of Distant Place
> http://www.distantplace.net/
  
bboy_mn responding to Alina:
True that is exactly what it says, but what is the context?

Hagrid and Harry are English wizards who are in England and about to
go to a wizard's bank in England to get money to by stuff in England
after which they will stay in England until such time that they both
end up in Scotland. 

So, is it reasonable to assume that the context is 'England'. Is
Harry, in context, saying 'British wizard have banks?' and Hagrid
replies 'British wizard have only one; Gringotts.'.

What's the answer? I don't know, that's why I'm asking. I'm wondering
how other people took this. Personally, I assumed that Gringotts was
the bank that served the UK. Can I prove that? NO. That was just my
sense when I read it. But now someone has brought up the possibility
that it is a worldwide banking system, and I'm wondering what people
think about that.

Just curious.

bboy_mn