No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor?

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 144590

Potioncat:
> 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.

Ceridwen:
I guess I'm a victim of 'it seems like', too.  I thought that, since 
Minerva McGonagall took both the Transfigurations position, which was 
Dumbledore's, and became Head of Gryffindor, that Dumbledore vacated 
both posts the year he became headmaster and Minerva therefore 
inherited both.

No canon, of course, just my take.  But I think it could be supported 
by Snape being both Potions Master and Head of Slytherin, which we 
see in canon were both Slughorn's positions.  We don't know when 
Slughorn retired, or at least I don't remember the cite.  But we do 
know he was there at least through the Marauders', Lily's and Snape's 
sixth year.  It isn't hard to stretch it out, that Snape took both 
positions upon Slughorn's retirement, which is when Dumbledore would 
have hired him on.

But, as everyone says, no canon.  That's just what it looks like.

Ceridwen.