#little impulsive

[twothousandeight]

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[troll-hunters]

A Defense of Gryffindor’s Sorting

The Gryffindor was a little hard for us to place at first, but once we got her house correct, there was no second guessing. (Except maybe some second guessing from Gryffindor… Gryffindors, man…) When we first met her freshman year, we assumed she was a Ravenclaw. She was an honor’s student who worked far more on her studies and homework than the rest of us. She is incredibly smart and seemed rather shy, rather than bold and impulsive. She appeared more Ravenclaw than Gryffindor, so it just kinda seemed fitting. Sorting quizzes even put her in Ravenclaw, so we thought we were right. Spoiler alert: we were very wrong.

Then the entirety of freshman year happened. We fought trolls together and became great friends. And Gryffindor was always leading the way. She ran into situations without fully thinking things through. She made the phone calls for us, figuring out the plan that we were going to implement and playing the front and center role, charging ahead. An impulsive nature began to display itself. She was the loudly yapping chihuahua that charged in front of the rest of us. There was really no stopping her. Even if we tried. And sometimes the Slytherin and Hufflepuff tried. More recently, the Gryffindor decided to buy an small air hockey game simply because she could.

Besides being brave and impulsive, she has the best manners out of the four of us, but that may just be her southern nature coming through. She is incredibly chivalrous, attempting to help when and where she can. The Gryffindor volunteers to help when she knows her friends are being wronged or getting the short end of the stick in any given situation. Sometimes that just means being dragged along to some meeting and doing nothing. Other times that means she is contacting various adults for us. Either way, she does more than is expected of her and goes above and beyond to help. She sometimes doesn’t think through her helpful actions which can get her into trouble, but that just makes her all the more Gryffindor. She is really just doing her best, and we appreciate that about her. Recently she has been asking the Hufflepuff a lot how Gryffindor can show she cares. The Hufflepuff is a bit confused by the action.

Gryffindor is also remarkably inpatient, something that the Slytherin and Hufflepuff mock her for constantly. She doesn’t like to wait to act, whether it is while driving or while trying to amend a disagreement. Gryffindor wants things to be resolved and wants them to be resolved now. She doesn’t want it to sit and wait. This all contributes to the fact that she doesn’t think things through quite as much as she probably should. She comes up with a solution and wants to implement it right then and then.  

The confidence that Gryffindor displays is intense. The others have decided that the amount of confidence Gryffindor has about a topic is inversely proportional to how much Gryffindor knows about the topic. Gryffindor managed to crack her windshield because she got overly confident about being able to change her windshield wipers on her own without help. How? We are still asking that question. Gryffindor holds to a “fake it till you make it” policy. Faking it? Check. Making it? She’ll get there.

The Gryffindor stands up for what is right, or at least for what she believes is right, and it is difficult to convince her something is different than how she believes it to be. She has a great deal of confidence, even when she shouldn’t, and is incredibly willing to go to bat for her friends, even when it is a battle they should fight alone. While she is definitely not the Gryffindor that will charge out and try new things just for the sake of adventure, she is definitely a Gryffindor that will manage to get herself into bizarre situations because she didn’t think things through before acting. She gets herself into interesting scrapes, and somehow, with her Gryffindor nerve (and a little bit of help from her friends) she gets herself out. There is no doubt about it. Gryffindor is a Gryffindor.