Harry's Firebolt

[Christina in GA]

No: HPFGUIDX 105180

>Amey:
>If I remember right, Hagrid foes to Bank with Harry in SS/PS, and >the
Goblin just asks whether he has Key for Harry's vault. That's >it, no
identification needed. Also, as for Sirius, I am thinking of >internet
shopping.

Christina:
Ha,ha, Internet shopping : )

In PoA Sirius says he sent Crookshanks to the owl post office in Hogsmeade
to order the Firebolt by mail. He says he told them to send the broom to
Harry but take the money from his own vault. Now I would think whatever
salesclerk recieves that note would have said something ---

It's morning in Diagon Alley and Quality Quidditch Supplies has just
received their morning mail via owl post. The clerk on duty that day sorts
the mail, putting bills in a stack to give to the owner, tossing the junk
mail - "Quality Brooms at Rock Bottom Wholesale Prices! Watch Your Profits
Soar!" -- and sees an order form that was part of an ad placed in the Daily
Prophet the previous week.  "Hey, Mr. Shopowner, sir, I have a mail order
for a Firebolt to send to Harry Potter at Hogwarts. It's from a Sirius Black
and he wants us to get the money from his vault at Gringott's." "What!" Mr.
Shopowner yells out. "Give me that note! We must contact the Ministry of
Magic at once! Sirius Black is a wanted man!"

Now, the salesclerk may be a recent graduate or maybe a part-timer working
for spending money to buy his own Firebolt and maybe he doesn't read the
paper or listen to the WWN so he doesn't know who Sirius Black is so he
fills the order and never says anything to Mr. Shopowner. Gringotts probably
doesn't care and the shop wants their money. But if the clerk mentioned it
to his boss you would think the boss would have recognized the name.

Christina in GA