The griffin-shaped door knocker (Was: Back in Black )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91732

Sembei:  
By the way, in Sirius' house there is furniture with legs in form of
claws, like in DD's headmaster room. Do you think it might mean
something? Also it has also called to my attention the fact that that
room had a griffon-shaped knocker, which in the film was exagerated
with the statue. Ideas?

Carol:
The claw-legged furniture could have been placed there by a certain
former headmaster with very close connections to the Blacks (Phineas
Nigellus). As for the griffin-shaped knocker on the headmaster's
office door, I think it reflects DD's (and JKR's) sense of humor.
Dumbledore is almost certainly the former head of Gryffindor house and
remains closely associated with it (both the Sorting hat and the sword
in his office originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor). I think the
griffin on the door knocker reflects this association, but it's also
an egregious pun: "griffin door" (Gryffindor). Good thing there's no
such thing as a dumble or we'd have a "dumble door" knocker.

Carol