J.K. Rowling has create one of the most detailed and elaborate series withHarry Potterand thewizarding worldthat audience have seldom seen it ’s like before , with franchises such as theMCU , Star Wars , andJames Bondbeing the only ones to touch it .

With a world that fundamental and intricate and the hundreds upon thousands of character introduced throughout its entirety , it makes good sense that not every witch and wizard we touch will have received all E ’s or O ’s on their O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s . Take a look at our list of 10 prolific Gryffindors from J.K. Rowling ’s wizarding world , place by how penny-pinching they should have been sort into Ravenclaw ( smartest ) .

Rubeus Hagrid

Harry learn the news program that he was a wizard way better than most people would have in the same situation , and it has nothing to do with the implausibility of being able to magic with a stick - it has to do with the messenger they sent to inform him of his supernatural abilities .

Hagridmay be one of the most confide , truehearted , and gold - hearted individuals of the franchise , but it was always recognize that when it came to faculty member he was , more or less , restricted to shoot care of vague magical creatures . Voldemort get him drum out from schoolhouse sure did n’t help with his book - learning either .

Neville Longbottom

Neville was very much like Hagrid in the common sense that his intelligence seemed to be bound to one specific area of expertise , and alas for Neville , that area was herbology , one of the most irksome subject at Hogwarts . Now , we ’re certainly not state that Neville is stunned - he was capable to kill Nagini with the sword of Godric Gryffindor and became the herbology professor at Hogwarts in his later year .

All we ’re saying is that Neville was basically the equivalent of a magic botanist , and with all of the different bailiwick issue a wizard could consider , playing with mandrakes all day just sounds like one of the worst ones .

Ron Weasley

rent ’s be reliable , if Ron ’s last name had n’t been Weasley he would ’ve most likely been sorted intoHufflepuff . But , thanks to that fiery red mop on top , Ron managed to land himself at the table of gold Leo and he struggle through every individual subject while he was there . Ron was very much the side - kicking , comic - relief graphic symbol to bestow a short light to Harry ’s constantly - in - mortal - risk mental attitude .

But more than that , his eccentric seemed to be the exact opposite of Harry ’s other best admirer , Hermione , in the fact that Ron seemed to outright despise classwork and simply want to flap his wand around whenever and however he pleased . Ron needs to sort out his antecedency .

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In case anybody has forget , the Chosen One ’s only veridical noetic endowment was Defense Against the Dark Arts , where he depict more of an instinctual intelligence operation rather than utilize himself and taking the time to learn the field . Harry could seemingly do no legal injury when it come to duel other beldame or wizards ( had nothing to do with his plot - armour ) but in virtually every other subject he struggled almost as much as Ron did .

He sure as shooting lovedHogwartsand the magical world that pulled him away from the Dursley ’s , but the never - ending fear of the most deadly sorcerer in history wanting to mutilate him sure made his studies seem insignificant in comparison .

Remus Lupin

The man who cried werewolf lands himself a achromatic spot on our intellectual Gryffindor lean because while Lupin certainly could n’t be classified as dim , he was never one to stretch the intellectual boundary either . Lupin , in the abbreviated flashback we see of him as a child , seemed as much of a mischief-maker as Harry and Ron during his time at Hogwarts .

Yet in his older year , he seemed to have gained a much larger horse sense of maturity and understanding when it come to his ' wild circumstance ' . Perhaps his two good friend being murdered and his third best Quaker getting framed for betray them out permit him to realise some view .

Sirius Black

Sirius was never an idiot , more so just a bit of a shirker in his younger years like so many Gryffindors before him , but he did make one decisive unintelligent error that allowed his two best friends to be murder , and that was trusting Peter Pettigrew with their position .

In total loveliness , he could n’t have know that his good friend flipped sides but it was still the decision that got the intact plot of land of the serial in apparent movement . However , in defense of Sirius ' intelligence , he was the first soul to ever violate out of Azkaban prison and he did it all on his own . Give credit where credit is due , he had to pretty ingenious to do that .

Ginny Weasley

Now we ’re really starting to dip into the golden lions that could ’ve just as easily been sorted into the golden eagles house . Ginny ’s key personality was n’t precisely that she was particularly impertinent , she actually seemed like she just happened to be secure at just about everything .

She surpass at nearly every aspect of her academics and she was one of the most gifted Quidditch histrion that Hogwarts had control in a farsighted time . She certainly did n’t care about faculty member as much as Hermione did , but it also seemed like she did n’t really have to .

Minerva McGonagall

Not many people really know this about Professor McGonagall ’s past tense , but she ’s one of Hogwarts ' only true " hat - stall " . The term manywizarding worldfans are n’t intimate with refers to students at Hogwarts that took the Sorting Hat over five minutes to make a decision , and when it come to Miss Minerva the Sorting Hat battled back - and - forth between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for one of the recollective span in Hogwarts history .

We ’re glad that Godric ’s house was the final determination , but we ’re fair certain that Professor McGonagall would have surpass no matter which house she was sorted into .

Hermione Granger

As we ’ve just learned , the term " hat - booth " relate to a witch or wizard who withdraw the Sorting Hat an improper amount of time to decide , and Hermione Granger was just a few seconds away from following in Professor McGonagall ’s footsteps ( and yes , the other choice was Ravenclaw ) .

It ’s no secret how levelheaded Hermione was during the time we spend with her in thewizarding worldand at times it even reached points where it was a tad - chip annoying how often Hermione had to swear her cerebral dominance . It ’s a tiny flaw for somebody as genius as Hermione , but nobody likes a no - it - all .

Albus Dumbledore

Did you even need to require ? Albus Dumbledore is arguably the G.O.A.T of thewizarding Earth , and it was evident from incredibly early on in his childhood that he was intellectually endow , particularly when it follow to magic ( luckily he was a wiz ) . However , the best part about Dumbledore was that while he never gloated about his cerebral superiority , he was never lowly about it either - he was realistic .

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