Gryffindor

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Gryffindor house
House information
Founder	Godric Gryffindor
Animal	Lion
Traits	Bravery and Chivalry
Head	Minerva McGonagall
Ghost	Nearly-Headless Nick
Common room	Gryffindor Tower
Members	Harry Potter Weasley family Hermione Granger Neville Longbottom Albus Dumbledore Dean Thomas Seamus Finnigan Lavender Brown Parvati Patil

"You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart"

—The Sorting Hat^[src]

Gryffindor is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Godric Gryffindor. Its emblematic animal is the lion and its colours are scarlet and gold. Minerva McGonagall is the most recent Head of House. Nearly Headless Nick is the house ghost. The particular characteristics of students Sorted into Gryffindor are courage and chivalry, of which the lion is the symbol.

Gryffindor corresponds roughly to the element of fire, which may partly be the reason for its colours.

Common Room

The Gryffindor Common Room is located in one of the castle's towers (Gryffindor Tower), the entrance to which is located on the seventh floor and is guarded by a painting of the Fat Lady, who is garbed in a pink dress. She permits entry only after being given the correct (regularly changing) password. Behind her is a large common room, with a fireplace, and two staircases leading up to the boys' and girls' dormitories.

Reputation

Gryffindor's founder, Godric Gryffindor.

Gryffindor emphasises the traits of courage as well as "daring, nerve and chivalry", and thus its members are generally regarded as brave, though sometimes to the point of recklessness. Notably, Gryffindor house contributed many members to Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix. According to Phineas Nigellus Black, members of other houses, particularly Slytherin, sometimes feel that Gryffindors engage in "pointless heroics". Another Slytherin, Severus Snape, considered many Gryffindors to be self-righteous and arrogant, with no regard for rules.

However, this may be taken with a grain of salt, as Gryffindors and Slytherins have shared a fierce house rivalry since their founders, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, respectively, had a severe falling out over Slytherin's emphasis on blood purity. There might also be an element of jealousy; since the sorting of Harry Potter into Gryffindor, the house received a certain amount of publicity that they hadn't had before. Harry and his fellow Gryffindors tend to win in a lot of circumstances which, when viewed from a Slytherin's point of view, may be considered unfair. Examples of this include the last-minute points awarded by Headmaster Dumbledore at the end of term feast, which conveniently put Gryffindor ten points ahead of Slytherin in the 1991-1992 school year, and Harry being permitted by Professor McGonagall to have his own broomstick for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, even though first-years are not normally permitted their own broomstick.

Even members of other houses might have felt that Gryffindor received favouritism, considering that many saw Harry being chosen as the fourth competitor in the Triwizard Tournament as stealing Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory's thunder unfairly, and being an example of Gryffindors' attention-seeking behaviour.

"Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves."

—before the Battle of Hogwarts^[src]

However, at least from Harry Potter's point of view, the houses of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tended to side with Gryffindor in its rivalry with Slytherin. This was particularly notable during the Second Wizarding War — the members of Dumbledore's Army were from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw, but lacked any Slytherins, and during the Battle of Hogwarts, the Slytherin students left while many students from the other three houses remained behind to fight.

List of Known Gryffindors

Sirius Black and James Potter

Hermione Granger

Neville Longbottom

Harry Potter

Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny Weasley

Gryffindor	Period Attending Hogwarts	Notes
Euan Abercrombie	1995 - 2002
Katie Bell	1990 - 1997	Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and member of Dumbledore's Army.
Sirius Black	1971 - 1978	Only member of the House of Black to be sorted outside of Slytherin house.
Lavender Brown	1991 - 1998	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Ritchie Coote	1990s	Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Colin Creevey	1992 - 1998	Member of Dumbledore's Army; died in what would have been his sixth year.
Dennis Creevey	1994 - 2001	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington	15th Century	Now the house ghost.
Albus Dumbledore	1892-1899	Later Headmaster of Hogwarts.
Lily Evans	1971 - 1978	Head Girl
Seamus Finnigan	1991 - 1998	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Vicky Frobisher	1990s
Hermione Granger	1991 - 1997	Prefect; did not attend final year but returned in 1998 to get N.E.W.Ts)[1]
Rubeus Hagrid	1940 - 1943	Expelled for uncommitted crimes in his third year.
Angelina Johnson	1989 - 1996	Chaser on, and later Captain of, the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Lee Jordan	1989 - 1996	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Andrew Kirke	1990s	Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Neville Longbottom	1991 - 1998	Member of Dumbledore's Army
Remus Lupin	1971 - 1978	Prefect
Mary MacDonald	1971 - 1978
Natalie McDonald	1994 - 2001
Minerva McGonagall	1931 - 1938[2]	Later became head of Gryffindor house and Headmistress of Hogwarts.
Cormac McLaggen	1990 - 1997	Temporary Keeper on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Nigel	1994 - 2001	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Parvati Patil	1991 - 1998	Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Jimmy Peakes	c. 1994 - c. 2001	Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Peter Pettigrew	1971 - 1978
Harry Potter	1991 - 1997	Seeker and later Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Leader of Dumbledore's Army. Did not attend final year.
James Potter	1971 - 1978	Head Boy
James Sirius Potter	c. 2016 - 2023
James Potter's father[3]	Unknown
Molly Prewett	1961 - 1968
Demelza Robins	1994 - 2001	Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Jack Sloper	1990s	Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Alicia Spinnet	1989 - 1996	Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Dean Thomas	1991 - 1997	Temporary Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Member of Dumbledore's Army. Did not attend final year.
Romilda Vane	1993 - 2000
Arthur Weasley	1961 - 1968
William Weasley	1982 - 1989	Head Boy
Charlie Weasley	1984 - 1991	Seeker and Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Fred Weasley	1989 - 1996	Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team; left early. Member of Dumbledore's Army.
George Weasley	1989 - 1996	Beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team; left early. Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Ginny Weasley	1992 - 1999	Chaser and temporary Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Member of Dumbledore's Army.
Percy Weasley	1987 - 1994	Prefect and Head Boy.
Ronald Weasley	1991 - 1997	Prefect and Keeper on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; did not attend final year.
Oliver Wood	1987 - 1994	Keeper and Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
2 unidentified Girls	1991 - 1998