A question on Sirius and his vault

[tonihollifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 126822



 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, laurie goudge 
<parisfan_ca at y...>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone:
> > 
> > ...edited...
> > 
> > ... At the end when Sirius sends Harry the note confirming it was 
> > him who sent the new broom and Crookshanks was the one who did 
the 
> > ordering I wondered--how did Crookshanks get the money from
> > Sirius's vault without raising alarm bells? ...Didn't whomever 
gave
> > Crookshanks the money realize the vault ... belonged to a fellon? 
> > ...
> > 
> > ... it's been nagging me as to how Sirius was able to pay for 
Harry's 
> > new broom and not get caught the instant his vault was 
accessed....


It had occurred to me that Gringotts might work something like a 
Swiss bank, where accounts can be accessed only by account number (or 
in this case, vault number), and not by name.  Since in SS, Hagrid 
asked to withdraw from Harry's vault, there must be names on at least 
some of the vaults, but maybe there's an option to just use numbers 
(such as the vault the stone was stored in.)  If that's the case, 
then Sirius' vault could have been accessed without his name having 
to come up at all.

Just a thought,

Toni