Gringotts vaults (was;various)

[jodel at aol.com]

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In a message dated 9/10/02 6:07:05 PM, HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

<< Fyre Wood replies:

> How odd is it that the vault of Sirius is number 711 and just two
> vaults down is number 713, the one holding the Philosopher's Stone?
> Perhaps the high security vaults are also used for Prisoners of
> Azkaban or convicted murderers? Or maybe it's just a random occurance?

I've been pondering that ever since I learned the vault number of Sirius
Black.  Seeing as my stupid (sorry!) Scholastic edition doesn't say.
However, technically speaking vaults 711 and 713 could be beside each other,
not two vaults down.  If odd numbered vaults are on one side and even
numbered on the other.  Interesting.

Richelle >>

Question; I don't have my copies of the books by me, but were we told what 
number is Harry's vault?
As to the matter of vault 711 and 713; yeah that sounds like quite a 
coincidence, all right. The vaults were almost certainly assigned in the 
order that the clients opened accounts. The Black family (or Sirius himself) 
seem to have opened an account about the same time the owner of vault 713 
did. But that really seems a bit hard to swallow, unless the Blacks are a 
VERY old family. The glimpse we got of the vault system of Gringotts looked 
extensive enouth for the actual vaults to number into the tens of thousands, 
eaasily, possibly hundreds of thousands. Vault #713 could well be Flammel's 
own vault, Nicholas having held it since the 14th or 15th century. If 
Sirius's #711 was a personal vault then it would have been opened in the last 
40 years, possibly in the last 20. And that sounds like a rather low number 
for a compairitively new account (unless he was simply assigned the vault of 
an earlier, now closed account.) I'm finding it hard to seriously consider 
that there is any real significance to the two vaults having such close 
proximity, but am prepared to hold my disbelief in reserve, just in case.

-JOdel