No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144532

Miles:
> This is no canonical evidence. I just searched the archive at Quick
> Quotes Quill and didn't find any information about this question 
> either. Actually, noone asked Rowling about this detail. Which I
> find quite interesting. And I do not remember any information about
> this in the entire HP series so far, apart from the quote in PS/SS I
> mentioned (and will repeat in this mail).

> Potioncat:
> Hmmm, I know Dumbledore is a Gryffindor. I just don't know how I 
> know. Although it would be a real riot if he were Slytherin! We went 
> through this once before, putting Snape in Gryffindor and McGonagall 
> in Slytherin...well, some of us did.
> 
> I went back to the Lexicon's citation, the only reference is CoS 
> chapter 17. I went there, it does not say that DD was Head of 
> anything nor does it mention Gryffindor!  All it says is that he was 
> the Transfiguration teacher when Riddle was a student.


Jen: We do have symbolism around Dumbledore, speculative I'll admit 
and possibly wiped away in Book 7. But there's the griffin on the 
headmaster's door in PS. The fact that Dumbledore retained Godric's 
sword and didn't return it to the rightful owner, i.e. Gryffindor's 
heirs (because he and Aberforth are it <g>). We also learned Godric's 
Hollow did not belong to the Potters so it seems likely Dumbledore 
arranged the setting for them since he was their primary protection 
and offered to be Secret Keeper. I think this is one of those things 
JKR has not mentioned because it will be part of the 'more to come' 
piece about Dumbledore in Book 7. Well, and as Miles pointed out, we 
just all assumed it! But I think it's a safe assumption.

Jen, betting the griffin door knocker and the sword are not part of 
McGonagall's office decor. *Now off to iron her hands for posting her 
purely un-canonical limerick on this list*