Sirius and Gringotts - the Two Basic Facts

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 96295

> Carolyn:
> *Really ?* That is extraordinary! What does the letter say in the 
US 
> edition ? Maybe JKR regretted giving that number away and tried to 
> change it? Does anyone know if it was removed from later UK 
> editions ? Mine is a hardback dated 1999, and has the printer 
marks 
> 20 19 and 18 on the copyright page.

Jen: I have a US hardcover, copyright 1999. Here's the same passage 
Carolyn quoted as written in this version:

"Crookshanks took the order to the Owl office for me. I used your 
name but told them to take the gold from my own Gringott's vault. 
Please consider it thirteen birthdays' worth of presents from your 
godfather. (p. 433)

Very interesting! I was thinking if vault 713 really is Dumbledore's 
personal vault, and 711 the Black family vault, perhaps that 
particular section of Gringotts is for old, pure-blood families? 
Meaning DD is from an old, pure-blood family. Somehow that would fit 
for him, to have the Philosopher's Stone in his vault and nothing 
else.