Scapegoating Slytherin - The Moral Majority

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 144443

horridporrid03 wrote:
> So, to counter the fact that Slytherin is evil (per
> Hagrid, our guide to the WW) and Gryffinder is the house of the
> greatest wizard alive, Dumbledore,

Miles:
We do not know that Dumbledore was in Gryffindor, do we? I only know one
line in canon to support this assumption:
"... and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear
Dumbledore himself was one" (Hermione at her first appearance on the
Hogwarts Express, ch 6 of PS/SS)

Hermione states, that she *heard* it. We know her, don't we? She doesn't
*know* it, if so, she would say it, so it's a rumour.
Maybe there is more canon for this, but if not, it may be important. Harry
never asks Dumbledore in what House he had been as a student, he takes
"Gryffindor" for granted. But he may be wrong.
Dumbledore shows no modesty concerning his intelligence. Maybe he was in
Ravenclaw?

Or better - maybe he was in Slytherin? This would be quite a surprise for
Harry, and not the worst.

Miles