A Dumbledore thought

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Jan has now read SS and CoS, and is getting into PoA [one of the few
> benefits of having one's husband down for days with a bad back is 
that
> he reads the books!].
> 
> He wanted to know if there was any firm canonical evidence that
> Dumbledore himself attended Hogwarts. And I don't know that there 
is.
> Hmm.
> 
> Jan's just brainstorming, he does that, and he was simply pointing 
out
> that this might be another assumption we're making. Like our 
assumption
> he was in Gryffindor, when the only basis for this is Hermione in 
book 1
> saying "I hear Dumbledore himself was in Gryffindor" or something to
> that effect, which is not rock-solid.
> 
> Probably he *was* at Hogwarts and he *was* in Gryffindor and JKR 
would
> be truly astonished that we could entertain any other thought, but 
as
> usual Jan got me thinking, so I thought I'd ask. Am I not 
remembering
> something? Or have we all just assumed?
> 
> --Amanda


As far as I recall, there is no other evidence that Dumbledore 
attended Hogwarts. Nonetheless, I think the quote you mention is 
evidence enough. My reason is simple. These little pieces of 
information, casually thrown by Hermione (preceded with a "I hear" 
or "supposed to") are always true. At least, I cannot recall one case 
when Hermione said such a thing and it turned out to be untrue. It 
seems to me, well, unfair, for an author to be inconsistent in these 
things. It would be very arbitrary to have one such fact be true and 
another turn out to be untrue. 
That's just my inexpert opinion, though. What do the writers/lit 
crits have to say on this?



Naama, in pursuit of knowledge