No canon!! Re: Dumbledore in Gryffindor?

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 144825


>  
> >   Andie:
> >   At the Harry Potter Lexicon in an open letter to JKR the question 
> was ask that If a teacher is head of a house can we assume that they 
> were sorted into those houses when they were students at Hogwarts?  
> Jo's response: yes.
> >   Is this canon?
> 
> Potioncat:
> It is canon that House follows one even beyond life. 
> But I cannot find the canon that says that DD was ever a Head of any 
> House. I cannot find canon that he was in Gryffindor. I don't think 
> there is canon that he was Deputy Headmaster.
> 
> We know he taught transfigurations; that he seemed to weld authority 
> over some policies; that he became Headmaster.
> 
> I have no doubt that he was Head of Gryffindor. I just don't see the 
> canon. I think Hermione's statement is intended as canon for his 
> being Gryffindor, but I accept that Miles has a point that it isn't a 
> firm statement.
> 
> It's just a bit of LOONacy on my part, inspired by Miles.


Barmaid now:

Someone up thread, Geoff I think, already pointed this out but as it
seems to have come up again:

In PS/SS (pg 106 U.S. hardcover) Hermione 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..."

This is obviously not definitive -- but it is a strong indication for
DD being a Gryffindor.