No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor? WAS Scapegoating Slytherin

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 144535

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Juli: PS/SS when Ron and Harry first meet Hermione, she asks them 
which house would they rather be, she says she's been asking and 
Gryffindor seems to be the best, Dumbledore was/is a Gryffindor... 
Don't have the book here, but...
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Lolita now:

The quote you're referring to goes as follows:

'Do either of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking 
around and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear 
Dumbledore himself was one..' (PS, UK children's paperback, p. 117)

I think we can safely say that DD indeed was in Gryffindor. Apart from 
it never having been brought up again in the books - as far as I know -
 I can't see any reason why Rowling would unnecessarily complicate the 
story with him being a member of another house.

Lolita.