Gringotts

I see what I desire.

But instead, poor Professor Quirrell becomes Voldemort's servant, and temporary horcrux, whom Voldemort uses to try and seize the Philosopher's Stone from first Gringotts and then Hogwarts, in order to regenerate his body.

Like, come on, we've met Quirrell.

Do we think Quirrell traveled all the way down here to Albania, or was just, like, messing around in these woods? Come on.

So, yet again, Harry has slipped through his fingers, but at least now he knows the location of the Elder Wand, which he finally goes to retrieve later that month, stealing it from Albus Dumbledore's grave.

And then we reach May 1st, 1998, the penultimate day in Voldemort's entire life.

'Tis on this day that at very, very long last Voldemort discovers that his Horcruxes are being targeted when he learns that Gringotts Bank has been broken into and the Cup of Hufflepuff has been stolen.

He knows we broke into Gringotts, he knows what we took, and he knows we're hunting Horcruxes.

And, uh, he gets to see how Diagon Alley opens up, the, the entrance there, and again just more cool magic.

We see Gringotts.

He, we find out he's loaded, right? His parents left him a bunch of Oolagh.

Hagrid collects a mysterious package from vault 713, and Harry gets his school supplies.

Like-

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Gringotts, like, they could've...

Now that we know so much more about Gringotts later, I think some of that you could even tease out.

Yeah.

But yeah, when I see them going to, uh, Gringotts w- uh, is that right word for the place, Gringotts?

Gringotts, yeah.

Yep.

That place is very interesting in itself.

[laughs]

Yeah, but I love the-

But there's a ride in, in Orlando, uh, the Gringotts coaster.

Goblins control the financial system.

All of Gringotts, you can't have missed them.

The war, the war, or have you forgot? Because I can promise you, they have not.

They're not afraid to pick mates by blood.

Good Lord, what is this gonna be?

Hot take is probably that goblins are basically running society.

I mean, who runs Gringotts? Goblins.

The Daily Prophet? Goblins.

Oh, and they're trying to figure out they're trying to find out more about Nicholas Flamel because they know something is at stake.

And, you know, there's there was a break in at Gringotts.

Yes.

Harry puts it together that him and Hagrid went to green gods, pick something up.

Yes.

This will come up a lot, um, next year in Deathly Hallows when they have to transfigure Ron to break into Gringotts.

You're right, yes.

Yeah.

And obviously, he's extremely smart.

And I actually think that, like, being a curse breaker for Gringotts must not be an easy job to get.

Because

think about how intense it is to get into banking.

the mess up at the...

Right.

At Gringotts.

So then he's like, Voldemort wants to keep a close eye on him.

Dumbledore understands that for Harry to defeat him, he needs to not only learn of the existence of the Horcruxes, but also come to understand the man himself.

It's something that Ron actually points out while they're Horcrux hunting in reference to Voldemort's selection of Gringotts to hide a Horcrux.

You really understand him.

Bits of him, said Harry.

Hedwig, Hagrid, Nimbus 2000, McGonagall, Firebolt, Sirius.

We're introduced to Harry's masses of gold at the very beginning of the series, when Hagrid brings him to Gringotts and shows him Vault 687.

When Harry walks in, he's visibly gobsmacked by the sheer volume of coins in front of him, a veritable assault on his senses.

The family wealth started with the founding patriarch of the family, Linfred of Stinchcombe, a 12th century potioner who was quite successful in the potions business.

Harry himself also doesn't treat it as unlimited.

For the most part, he's relatively restrained with his spending, which makes sense because Harry's piles of cash don't come from an active income.

At this stage in his life, the gold in Gringotts is essentially an inheritance that has to support him until he can support himself.

Does he probably have enough to buy Ron a wand? Absolutely.