Dumbledore and the Weasleys

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 144932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hambtty" <hambtty at t...> wrote:
>
> Curious - has there been any discussion regarding Dumbledore 
> being related to the Weasleys and both being Heirs of Gryffindor?
> I can't shake the feeling ever since we learned in COS that 
> Dumbledore had red hair.  All - everyone of the Weasleys are in 
< Gryffindor.  Maybe on Molly's side? 
> 
> I'd like to follow the thread if there is one.
>
>hambtty

bboyminn:

It is possible for either the Weasleys or the Prewetts*, Sirius said
that he was related distanctly to both Arthur and  Molly, and that all
pureblood families were inter-related. However, I don't think the
relationship, however distant, is of any significants.

As far as 'Heir of Gryffindor' theories, this is what JKR had to say
on the matter in the MuggleNet/Leaky_Cauldron interviews with Emerson
and Melissa -
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http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm

MA: What about Harry's family — his grandparents — were they killed?

JKR: No. This takes us into more mundane territory. As a writer, it
was more interesting, plot-wise, if Harry was completely alone. So I
rather ruthlessly disposed of his entire family apart from Aunt
Petunia. I mean, James and Lily are massively important to the plot,
of course, but the grandparents? No. And, because I do like my
backstory: Petunia and Lily's parents, normal Muggle death. James's
parents were elderly, were getting on a little when he was born, which
explains the only child, very pampered, 
had-him-late-in-life-so-he's-an-extra-treasure, as often happens, I
think. They were old in wizarding terms, and they died. They succumbed
to a wizarding illness. That's as far as it goes. There's nothing
serious or sinister about those deaths. I just needed them out of the
way so I killed them.

MA: That sort of shuts down Heir of Gryffindor [theories], as well.

JKR: [Pause.] Yeah. Well - yeah.

MA: Another one bites the dust.

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So what JKR is implying is that the lineage of Harry's family is not
significant.

There is some slight possibility that Dumbledore may have some
ancestral connection to Gryffindor, but I doubt that the Weasleys or
Prewetts do. Of course, that is just my own personal speculation. I
suspect that if this was going to be reveal in the last books there
would have been some hints along the way, and there are none that I
can see.

*For those who don't remember 'Prewett' is Molly's maiden name.

Steve/bboyminn