Gringotts Bank was Re: PoA question and Sirius

[sjd914 <sjd914@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50537

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ali <Ali at z...>" <Ali at z...> 
wrote:
Ali:
Gringotts bank must allow cats to withdraw  money in a way we 
Muggle Bankers would never do, and possession of a key must equate to 
authorisation....

Dicentra corrected:-
  
Crookshanks never went to Gringotts.  All he did was take Sirius's
letter of authorization to the Owl Post in Hogsmeade.  The owl took
the letter to Gringotts.  Someone there withdrew the money from 
vault 711, purchased the Firebolt, and sent it back to Hogwarts.  
Don't know who that someone was.  Maybe Sirius sent a separate letter 
to the Quidditch supplies shop.

Ali: 
Oh dear, does that mean that I'll have to give up my much cherished 
LOON badge? That serves me right for being flippant. 
 Back to canon though, I see Sirius' authorisation letter as a kind-
of 
cross between a postal order and a cheque. It does seem to indicate 
that the WW does deal in representative money as well as the real 
stuff  - gold.

Me: 
You guys forgot that Sirius also said that he used Harry's name to 
buy the broom. I'm guessing that the way Owl Order works is that you 
send an owl to the company saying what item you want, your vault 
number, your key, and you address. Since he sent it in Harry's name 
the adress was probably Hogwarts, Gryffindor Table, 3rd seat from the 
High Table, Left Side etc. Hermione also used Owl Order to buy Harry 
his Brookstick Servicing Kit. Her order seems to confirm the method 
of using Owl Order since she couldnt have visited Gringott's, or 
gonnten anyone else to while she was in France.

 - Sajid
Who now has his own LOON badge