Sirius' Vault and Gringott's Goblins?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 60318

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz"
<ivanova at i...> wrote:
> Steve (bboy_mn) had a slight Q & A section about the Gringotts
goblins. I, for quite some time, have had a question about them that 
> I don't think has an answer, but has disturbed me for quite some 
> time.
> 
> Q:  On what side, if any, were the goblins during the last war 
> against Voldemort?  And, if they were neutral or at least not allied
> with Voldemort, ...
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Kelly Grosskreutz
> http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova

bboy_mn:

When Voldemort pictures victory for himself, he pictures himself
standing on the balcony of a palace, and they huddles masses are
cheering his victory and bowing at his feet. Unfortunately, it takes
more than standing on a balcony watching people bow to run a country.

Let's look at the world that a Voldemort victory would create. A
brutal world of chaos, uncertainly, and oppression, the wizard world
reduced to a field of ashes, population decimated, economy and
commerce in ruins, a wasteland, and you can be certain that a
wasteland is not a prosperous land. You only have to look at Suddam
Hussein's Iraq, Hitler's Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia, China, The
Soviet Union, North Korea, etc... to see that rule by brutal
oppression is not good for the economy.

True in a stituation like this, there are those who are incredably
rich, but the entire middle class, which by the way sustains the
economy, is lost. There is nothing left but the filthy rich and the
filthy poor. 

Stability and a healthy prosperous economy go hand in hand, and
Voldemort could never create a stable country. His brutality and
oppression would bring sanctions from the greater wizard world. The
greater wizard world also does not want to do business with a person
who is as unstable as Voldemort, unstable people can't be depended on
to pay their bills.

So given the goblin's love of money, do you think they would prefer to
back Voldemort's wasteland or the current wizard world's STABLE
healthy and prosperous economy? Not a hard choice, I think.

To some extent, I can see this contributing to Voldemort's downfall.
There is on old saying, 'Tyranny is the architect of it's own doom". I
think now that the existing Death Eaters have had had a chance to
create stable prosperous lives for themselves, they will see that the
new Voldemort war substantial threatens that security, and that
realization will lead to their less than enthusiastic support for
Voldemort.

Tyranny is the architect of is own doom; that's the reason the evil
overlord never wins.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn