[HPforGrownups] Re: What's in Sirius' Vault at Gringott's?

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 60207


>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jesta Hijinx"
><jestahijinx at h...> wrote:
> >
> > Dog biscuits?  :-)
> >
> > Felinia
> >
> > Mme Malkin suggests:
>
>Let's get Geraldo in there with a camera crew and find out! :-D
>
>~Diane
>
Diane:

Well, Geraldo may not be able to access it, but...you're just given me the 
most vivid image of Rita Skeeter trying to get in there!

Isn't it interesting that, while the WW has moving photos, it doesn't seem 
to have anything like movies or TV that we've seen?

Back to Sirius' vault:  sounds like he has a tidy pile tucked away in there 
as well if he can afford to send Harry that Firebolt.  I'll grant you, for a 
time he also is living on rats and garbage snackies, but that has more to do 
with the need to keep a low profile in a specific location.  I'll bet that 
wherever he was when he was abroad and kept sending back brightly colored 
non-owls with messages to Harry (and if Hedwig attracted attention, *that* 
didn't???), he was luxuriating somewhere on a beach with low-key but plush 
accommodations.

We had the big Gringotts' discussion before, but for new people:  I maintain 
that Gringotts' and the goblins run the bank very much like Switzerland - 
numbered bank accounts or the equivalent, and nobody's too much of a baddie 
not to have their money kept there.  Voldemort may well have an account; 
I'll bet some of the better-off giants and hags do; and probably Sirius 
Black kept his account there and no one was allowed to track or tamper with 
it, for good or ill.  It's a different principle than currently in our 
country, where the IRS and other agencies are allowed to mess if there's 
suspicion of ill-gotten gains - but consider that the goblins are something 
of a nation unto themselves, as they're shown; and if they're iron-clad 
honest and protect their investors' assets and haven't made a mistake in 
centuries, then everyone is probably quite happy with the status quo.  Who 
knows?  Maybe some of Voldemort's assets are actually invested for good 
causes without his knowledge.  :-)

Felinia

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