Was Wormtail the ONLY Dark Wizard Sorted into Gryffindor? - Harry Potter Explained

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be discussing whether or not Peter “Wormtail” Pettigrew was the only student ever to be sorted into Gryffindor who became a dark wizard.

If you’re a fan of the Harry Potter series, you’re likely familiar with Rubeus Hagrid’s infamous line, “There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin.” Spoken to a young, eleven-year-old Harry within the first 100 pages of The Philosopher’s Stone, these words tremendously impacted how most of us—Harry included!—viewed the House of Slytherin and its tendency to churn out dark witches and wizards. And yet, as the series unfolded, and the wizarding world has continued to expand well after the release of The Deathly Hallows in 2007, we’ve learned that not ALL dark witches and wizards are sorted into Slytherin. In fact, there have been some incredibly famous GOOD witches and wizards, like Merlin, who were Slytherin students at Hogwarts—as well as some incredibly BAD ones who were in other houses. For example, we discover that the despicable Death Eater Barty Crouch Junior—who tortured, captured, impersonated and killed many a witch and wizard in the name of Lord Voldeomort—was likely a Ravenclaw student. As was Professor Quirinus Quirrell, who went off in search of Voldemort to try and obtain his past power only to end up being possessed by the Dark Lord to do his bidding. And, then, of course, there’s Peter Pettigrew—the once Marauder and former best mate of James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, and GRYFFINDOR alumni.

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