Was Dumblebore ever a student at Hogwarts?
Joywitch M. Curmudgeon
joym999 at aol.com
Mon Nov 26 20:29:23 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 30088
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Becky <squireandknight at y...> wrote:
>
> --- carol.sutcliffe at u... wrote:
> I don't know if anything has come up yet in
> > the books regarding Dumblebore as a student but
> > presumably he must have attended Hogwarts as a boy, what are
> > people's thoughts on which
> > house he was in. Could he be an heir to one of the
> > houses? Clever Ravenclaw or kindly Hufflepuff, he seems to have
> > plently of the attributes of both.
> >
> In PS/SS Hermione says that she wanted to be in
> Gryffindor, and that she "heard Dumbledore himself was
> in it." Given that her information is generally
> accurate, I assume that this clinches the fact that he
> was a Gryffindor.
>
I would agree with Becky here. JKR has made it clear, especially in
interviews, that all of the important "good" characters -- Hagrid,
James, Lily, and of course Harry, Ron and Hermione, are Gryffindors.
Also, when Harry visits Dumbledore's office he notices a brass
knocker in the shape of a griffin on the office door. Not
conclusive, but interesting.
--JMC
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