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location=Diagon Alley|
residents=Goblins|
appearance=[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']]
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* At times, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Probity Probe|Probity Probes]] are used on customers to detect enchantments, magical concealments and hidden magical objects
At the beginning of the first book, Gringotts Vault 713, a higher-security vault, held a small grubby bag, inside of which was the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]]. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Albus Dumbledore]] sends Hagrid to retrieve it while he escorts Harry to Diagon Alley. Later that very same day, someone, apparently a very powerful wizard, breaks into the vault. Although he is unsuccessful in obtaining the Philosopher's Stone, the break-in shocks the
While Gringotts is largely staffed by goblins, including [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Griphook|Griphook]] and Ragnok, it is known that the bank does employ humans. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bill Weasley|Bill Weasley]] works as a Curse Breaker for Gringotts in Egypt, retrieving artifacts from ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fleur Delacour|Fleur Delacour]] took a part-time job with Gringotts after participating in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Triwizard Tournament|Triwizard Tournament]], apparently to improve her English skills, and wizard guards are mentioned in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']] during the break in. Griphook mentions at that time that the goblins resent "wand-bearer" interference in their internal affairs.
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== Analysis ==
It is only to be expected that there would be banks for wizards, just as there are for Muggles. As magic makes it possible to pass through nominally locked doors, it is also to be expected that security measures at Wizarding banks would be more stringent, and more Wizard-specific, than at Muggle banks; no Muggle bank could stand attack by a single reasonably-determined wizard. Thus the vaults are deep underground, protected presumably by anti-[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Apparation|Apparation]] spells, and concealed by the use of the Goblin-specific carts and confusing routes.
The fact that Gringotts has never been robbed is mentioned in the first book, along with the fact that a break-in had happened. It is interesting to note that in the seventh book, Griphook, despite no longer working for the bank, still attempts to defend Gringotts' record of having no successful burglaries, claiming that the break-in did not count because the vault in question was already empty. It is only blind chance that allowed Gringotts to claim its security was still intact. After the Trio's venture, however, their record is broken; and one must wonder how Griphook explained matters once he returned to the bank.
Initially, the use of dragons to guard the high security vaults is only a rumor. It is possible that the author included that as no more than a way to introduce Hagrid's love of dangerous creatures in general, and dragons in particular, and as a way to establish background for the introduction of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 14|Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback]].
== Questions ==
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It is noted that Voldemort hides a Horcrux in the Lestrange vault. This does seem a rather pedestrian place to put something as important as a Horcrux, and Hermione says as much when Harry first mentions that he believes a Horcrux is there. However, Harry points out that only the oldest Wizarding families have vaults in the high-security part of the bank, and so holding a key to one of those vaults is equivalent to claiming ancestry from the oldest of Wizarding families. Voldemort clearly seems to believe that ancestry is of more value than anything else, even the laws of the land, a belief his grandfather [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marvolo Gaunt|Marvolo]] also espoused, and so the trappings of that heredity, such as access to a Gringotts deep vault, are of almost incalculable value to him.
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