No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 144582

Caius Marcus:   
> In Sorcerer's Stone, when Hermione first meets Ron & Harry on the HE 
> (Chapter 6), she says: "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 in it, but I suppose 
> Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad...."


Potioncat:
Yeah, that's the quote that probably had all us thinking it (probably 
correctly) way back when. But, IIRC, Miles's point was that this is not 
a firm Hermione statement. She doesn't say "I read it in 'Hogwarts, A 
History.'" She said, "I heard." So I think Miles has a good point. I 
wouldn't use the movie line about setting the curtains on fire either, 
although it was a funny line. Look at how much the movies have changed 
Snape! 

The Lexicon states that DD was Head of Gryffindor and that would 
confirm that he was in Gryffindor. But I can't find the canon for that. 
The only canon I could find in CoS was that he was the Transfiguration 
teacher.

Given the Gryffindor-like images around DD, and the Hermione statement, 
he is most likely from Gryffindor. But I'm eagerly waiting the Lexicon 
response to Miles's letter.

Potioncat, who thinks DD is from Gryffindor, but admits to a lack of 
canon.