CHAPDISC: DH25, Shell Cottage

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184057


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> Alla:
> Are you sure that as soon as they will decide that some object that 
> Bill possesses belong to the Goblins, they will not double cross him 
> right away? I am not. After all, Griphook was also civil to Harry 
> till the sword was involved.
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>

Pippin:
Bill doesn't think they're going to double cross him -- he's been
working for them for years. I've worked in the banking business
myself, and I can tell you that, while not all bankers deserve their
customers' confidence, they generally work very hard to keep it. When
people lose confidence in their bankers, they sock their money in a
mattress instead. People have been stashing their valuables at
Gringotts for centuries, so I think the Gringotts goblins are
generally okay. 

Griphook himself says that the Gringotts goblins would regard what he
is about to do as a base treachery, and I think that refers to  the
the actual bargain as well as the putative one.

(I note that Harry should have phrased his request more carefully. He
only asked for help breaking into a Gringotts vault. Nothing was said
about getting out again <veg>.) 

Pippi;n