Timelines (was No canon!! Dumbledore in Gryffindor?)

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 144624

potioncat wrote:
> I suppose I'm twisting this thread too much, but I don't think it's a
> given that McGonagall will be Headmistress. Again based on a Healer
> coming in for the position in the past, or even Umbridge
> being "placed" there in OoP. It will be interesting to see who the
> staff will be "next" year.

Miles:
My idea is Slughorn, who is fully qualified and surely has good connections
in the Ministry, whereas McGonagall .... she was very much Dumbledore's
Madam (could we really think of her as 'only' a woman?).

But to come back to my initial idea, that Dumbledore had not been in
Gryffindor as a student, and to tie some loose ends of this thread together:
We have several ideas about details concerning the staff. I hope I do not
forget one:
- probably Dumbledore was in Gryffindor - there are hints in canon, but no
proof
- probably there are connections between Houses and subjects. Ok, maybe less
then "probably", but the idea is... sexy, and we have some hints.
- probably there are connections between subjects, their teachers and Heads
of House. Again, the idea is more sexy than probable, but I like it ;).
- probably McG will become Headmistress. But... see above.

We could find several other details about most of us would agree, that there
is a probable answer but no proof.

Alas, I do like meta considerations. And, as we all do, I know Rowling's way
of thinking, at least a bit.
Of the details listed above, the most probable is IMO "Dumbledore was a
Gryffindor". There are several hints, but still noone could give a prove
from canon. The Rowling I know would really love to damage a conviction of
the majority of readers - and characters, if it suits the plot. And
Dumbledore a Slytherin... a  light bulb moment for Harry.

Miles, still waiting for an answer from the Lexicon