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([[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 5|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']])
When [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] first visits Gringotts, he is told by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] that one would have to be mad to try to rob Gringotts and that, apart from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogwarts|Hogwarts]], it's the safest place for anything valuable to be kept. Goblins are extremely greedy and would protect their money and valuables at any cost, which makes them ideal guardians for the valuables of the wizarding world. The goblins have a code that forbids them to speak of the bank's secrets, and would consider it "base treachery" to break any part of that code.
Gringotts use a variety of security systems:
* Lower security vaults require a key; higher security vaults (generally deeper underground and owned by the oldest wizarding families) require the touch of a certified Gringotts goblin.
* [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dragon|Dragons]] guard the highest security vaults. They can only be controlled by Clankers, which only the goblins possess.
* The Thief's Downfall can be activated; a charmed waterfall that the goblin carts must pass through, it cancels all enchantments and magical concealments, and throws the carts off their tracks.
* Some vaults use the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Gemino|Gemino]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Flagrante|Flagrante]] charms; when any item is touched by a thief, it multiplies rapidly and burns them, eventually crushing and scorching them to death.
* Objects within Gringotts cannot be [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Accio|summoned]].
* 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.
We note that depositors are given individual vaults to keep their valuables, rather than having their funds pooled the way Muggle banks do. We presume that this is an example of the Wizarding world's general archaic atmosphere; just as so many other aspects of the Wizarding world have remained firmly planted in the older ways of doing things, with individual fireplaces and stoves for the rooms, gaslights, and so forth, it seems that the banking style of the day has remained limited to the ancient model encompassing only exchange and storage of valuables. We note that this could be construed also as a security measure, as luck alone determines what you will find when you enter a vault. You could pick one full of riches like the Lestrange vault; but equally, you could end up with a dusty, empty vault like the Hogwarts one mentioned below, or the Weasleys'.
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 Wizarding world because it is practically unheard of for Gringotts to be robbed. The culprit is not caught, though we later learn that it was almost certainly [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Professor Quirrell|Professor Quirrell]], acting under orders from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]].
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