Sirius, Gringotts, & the Firebolt

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No: HPFGUIDX 114237

--- 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. :-)