[HPforGrownups] Re: Here's a very strange thought I had about Dumbledore and Voldemort

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No: HPFGUIDX 17987


--- child_of_rain_1999 at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski
> <editor at t...> wrote:
> > catherine at c... wrote:
> > 
> > > (I did consider whether Dumbledore could be
> related to Voldemort's
> > > mother, but she is descended from Slytherin and
> Dumbledore is a
> > > Gryffindor, so this again seems very unlikely.)
> > 
> > Has JKR said in a chat or someplace that
> Dumbledore was a 
> Gryffindor?
> > 
> > And the houses are just that, houses at a school.
> It doesn't 
> dictate all
> > your social interactions in the future.
> Intermarrying does happen, 
> and
> > there can be members of more than one house in one
> family.
> > 
> > --Amanda
> 
> 
> Yes, Dumbledore was in Gryffindor. It was stated by
> Hermione on the 
> train to Hogwarts (SS/PS). She said something along
> the lines 
> of, "...Gryffindor seems by far the best. Dumbledore
> himself was in 
> Gryffindor..." (I don't have the book with me now,
> but that's 
> basically what she said.)
> 
> JK Rowling has told us Dumbledore was a Gryffindor
> in several 
> interviews, too.
> 
> I'm pretty sure Dumbledore is not related to Riddle.
> He said 
> Voldermort was the last remaining decendant of
> Salazar Slytherin. On 
> the other hand, you would need information from
> someone other than 
> Dumbledore to really trust his words. If he really
> was related to 
> Riddle I don't think he'd want students gossiping
> about it. You could 
> make the argument that he was lying about Riddle's
> family.
> 
> Icicle,
> Webmstrss. of The Hogwarts Tower of Time
> http://www.geocities.com/child_of_rain_1999
> 
> Just because Voldie was related to Salazaar,does not
mean that Dumbledor has to be a descendant of Salazaar
also. They could still be related.
> 
> 


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