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[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 111781

khinterberg wrote:
> I'm re-reading PS/SS right now and there was a comment about 
> Gringotts that stuck out to me.
> 
> "They had reached a snowy white building that towered over the 
other 
> little shops.  Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing 
a 
> uniform of scarlet and gold, was --
> 'Yeah, that's a goblin,' said Hagrid..."  p 72
> 
> Why is the goblin wearing scarlet and gold, the colors of Godric 
> Gryffindor?  It seems to perhaps add to the argument that GG was 
> powerful/wealthy/nobility.

Finwitch:

For one thing, I'd think that the Goblins love gold, and therefore 
wear it as well! (and is suited for wizarding bank, too)

Red (scarlet) is a colour associated with high status (red carpet). 
Or maybe it has to do with the way gold in the mix of sands to make 
glass will make the glass red?

Or the colour of rubies, which are besides the pure diamonds, the 
most valuable?

Also, red and gold(yellow) are the colors used for warnings (traffic 
signs, poison) and attention (they shine best...)

They're also the colors of phoenix, the eternal bird, that is also 
most rare, valuable in many ways, strong, fast...

No need to mix Godric Gryffindor into this, although I think that 
he's the founder Goblin's would like the most...

Finwitch