Sirius, Gringotts, & the Firebolt

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 114674


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" <greatraven at h...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> > Why didn't the Goblins turn in Sirius to MOM when he ordered the 
> > Firebolt for Harry in POA?  I know Crookshanks took the order, but 
> > the book says that the money was taken from Sirius's vault -- who 
> > else would authorize such a transaction except Sirius?  Maybe 
> > Gringotts has a really strict privacy policy (being facetious here).  
> > Maybe it wouldn't have mattered -- who would the MOM have 
> > interrogated -- Crookshanks?  :)
> > 
> > Angie
> 
> Sue here:
> 
> Good thought. I'd vote for the privacy policy. I'm pretty sure that
there are 
> some accounts in Switzerland that have been there for a long, LONG
time, 
> long after the owners are dead and gone, and it took a lot of
bludgeoning to 
> get the Swiss banks to give up accounts put there by Nazis hiding their 
> ill-gotten loot.
> 
> I also think that the goblins, who run the bank, don't like wizards
very much 
> and really don't care about their quarrels. :-)

Finwitch:

Another possibility:

just what would the goblins tell the Ministry? That S. Black, from
unknown place, had made a withdrawal for Quality Quidditch Supplies to
send a Firebolt to Harry Potter, under Harry Potter's name? On their
own? Think not.

Besides, it's a numbered vault 711 - next(or near) to 713, in which
the PS was. It is well possible that while the Goblin secrecy policy
is not all that strict (covering criminal activity), maybe your
average goblin does not know whose possession such numbered account
is. They're given a number, the amount of withdrawal and authorisation
letter - (with magical means to say if it's valid, or a password,
which just could be Harry James Potter - but I'm with magic here).

Maybe the Goblins don't know either!

And um - maybe Harry has the authority to make a withdrawal from
Sirius' Vault - in which case the withdrawal says NOTHING about Sirius
at all. (No need for Sirius' death being announced and his will read,
then).

and I agree that Goblins don't like wizards much... as to why - I
think the reason is presented in the *fountain* that  Harry put some
money into - also, the *lie* it presents!

Finwitch