13 minifigures we’ll probably see in the rumoured LEGO Harry Potter 76417 Gringotts Bank

The rumoured LEGO Harry Potter 76417 Gringotts Bank is said to include 13 different minifigures, so here are the most likely contenders for the full line-up.

According to fresh rumours from Brick Clicker, this summer’s flagship LEGO Harry Potter set will deliver the huge Gringotts Bank the community has been calling for since 75978 Diagon Alley arrived on shelves. Reportedly split over two levels, the gleaming white building will seemingly sit on top of an underground mine cart system, but can be detached to connect to Diagon Alley.

The 4,807-piece set is also said to come with a healthy 13 minifigures, which is a pretty high number given the relatively brief appearances Gringotts makes across all eight Harry Potter films. Still, between two movies in particular there are enough characters to conjure up a list of likely contenders for the LEGO set – so here’s who we’re expecting to see in the box.

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Harry and Hagrid

Our first introduction to Gringotts Bank comes in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, when Hagrid takes Harry to Vault 713 to collect the Philosopher’s Stone (oh, and to show him that he’s firmly upper-middle class in the Wizarding World). While most of Gringotts’ most memorable scenes come later in the saga, the LEGO Group would be remiss not to include a nod to its very first sequence with minifigures of Hagrid and young Harry. 

Harry and Griphook

The rest of the set’s line-up of named characters will likely come from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, in which Harry, Ron and Hermione break into Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault to retrieve one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Top of the pile would therefore be Harry and Griphook, who spend the initial infiltration hiding under Harry’s Invisibility Cloak. We’ve already got a LEGO element for that, so it would be fun to see it return here.

Bellatrix Lestrange and Dragomir Despard

Ron and Hermione play perhaps the biggest role in the break-in, but not as themselves: instead, they’re disguised as Dragomir Despard and Bellatrix Lestrange respectively. This would be the perfect opportunity for the LEGO Group to finally give us a Bellatrix minifigure with a printed dress (building on her dual-moulded arms in this summer’s 76415 The Battle of Hogwarts), while Dragomir Despard – a much hairier Ron, basically – would be a brand new minifigure.

Bogrod and Travers

The two biggest obstacles to the gang breaching the bank vault are a goblin named Bogrod and a Death Eater named Travers – at least in the book. On screen, only Bogrod stands in their way, forcing Harry to use the Imperius Curse on the suspicious goblin. But Travers does appear in the film version of the Order of the Phoenix, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see the LEGO Group include him here as an obscure nod to the book series. Either way, Bogrod is a cert.

Ron and Hermione

By the time the would-be burglars arrive at Bellatrix’s vault, Ron and Hermione’s magical disguises have worn off, leaving them looking like themselves – but still in the same costumes. Alternate heads and hairpieces for Bellatrix and Dragomir would be the bare minimum here, but we can also see the LEGO Harry Potter team stretching to full Ron and Hermione minifigures, with the clothes they change into after escaping on the Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon.

Goblins!

That takes us to 10 total minifigures, so who else but generic goblins to fill out the rest of the character count? The unnamed Gringotts Head Goblin who lets Harry and Hagrid into Vault 713 would surely be in the mix, but there’s an entire Wiki page of Gringotts employees the LEGO Group could pull from if it wanted to start naming these guys.

Remember that any and all details surrounding 76417 Gringotts Bank are still just rumours at this stage, so take them with the requisite pinch of salt for now.

All images: Warner Bros.

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