The Gryffindors In Harry Potter's Year, Ranked From Useless To Awesome

There's a fine, fine line between being brave and being stupid.

By Kevin Wong /

€œYou might belong in Gryffindor / Where dwell the brave at heart / Their daring, nerve and chivalry / Set Gryffindors apart.€ So said the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter and the Philosopher€™s Stone. It€™s no wonder that Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, was sorted into the bravest, most courageous of houses. He showed wonderful grit and determination throughout all seven books, as did his fellow Gryffindors, who were his first and loyalest allies. When You-Know-Who finally took a dirt nap at the end of Book 7, every Gryffindor student shared a piece of that victory, and had much to be proud of. Well... almost every Gryffindor student. Don€™t get it twisted; most of them had a crucial role to play, but there were several Gryffindors who were either minimally consequential or detrimental to Harry€™s overall success. Peter Pettigrew proved that Gryffindor is no guarantee of a person€™s inner goodness, or effectiveness for that matter. And the same goes for Harry€™s group. Including Harry, there are ten known Gryffindors in Harry€™s year €” five boys and five girls - and because there€™s a fine, fine line between being brave and being stupid, not all of them were quite as wonderful as The Boy Who Lived...