Houses

Gryffindor

Founded by Godric Gryffindor

Gryffindor is the Hogwarts house that prizes nerve. Godric Gryffindor wanted students who would act when it cost them something. The house colors are scarlet and gold. Its members turn up wherever the seven books put a fight: the chessboard under the trapdoor, Dumbledore’s Army, and the last defence of the castle. The Sorting Hat’s song treats courage as the house trait. The sword that presents itself to a worthy Gryffindor is the house’s oldest object, and it later destroys more than one Horcrux.