[the_old_crowd] Re: Harry's Grigott's Vault Number

[susiequsie23]

Phyllis:
> I'm attempting to do the questions each day on the Scholastic HBP
> count-down, and yesterday's question required us to know Harry's
> Grigott's vault number.  Is that in the books anywhere?  We're told
> Sirius' vault number, and the vault number that the Philosopher's
> Stone is in, but I can't recall any references to Harry's vault number.

David wrote:
<<Not having POA, I can't check, but did Sirius mention that his vault
was next to the Potters'?>>

Phyllis:
> I can't recall Sirius ever saying that - he only mentions his vault
> number at the end of PoA in the context of explaining where Harry's
> Firebolt came from, but there isn't a reference there as to where his
> vault is in relation to the Potters'.  The weird thing is, the math in
> the problem works if you use 710 (which would be next to Sirius' 711),
> but the even weirder thing is that Scholastic, in their infinite (lack
> of) wisdom, edited out Sirius' vault number in the US version of PoA.
> So since the question was posed on a Scholastic site, it would be
> strange for them to require information that can only be found in the
> UK version of the books in order to answer the question.


SSSusan:
I think vaults which are next to one another go up in number by TWO, as with 
addresses on one side of the street vs. the other (odds on one, evens on the 
other).  That would make the vaults next to Sirius's 713 and 709, not 712 
and 710?

As to Harry's vault number, this from the Lexicon:
>>> The vaults, of which there are more than seven hundred, are opened by 
>>> various means. The typical ones use small keys. The high security vaults 
>>> have enchantments placed on their doors. The goblin strokes the door to 
>>> make it melt away; if anyone but a Gringotts goblin tries it, however, 
>>> they will be sucked through the door and trapped inside the vault. 
>>> Dumbledore's high security vault was number 713. Sirius Black's vault 
>>> was number 711 (British edition of PA). Harry's vault is number 687 
>>> (SS/f). <<<

Note, however, that the source for that vault number of Harry's is the FILM 
of SS.

Siriusly Snapey Susan