Okay. This frustrates me so much. Peter Petitgrew was a Gryffindor whether you like it or not. That's what the hat saw in him. That's where the hat put him.

This rant is based on something said on Pottermore on their Twitter. Some people (mainly Gryffindors) support this, while others (like me) are angry at this statement.

Let's look at the house qualities shall we?
Gryffindor:

Slytherin:

Do you see evil under Slytherin qualities? Good under Gryffindor? No? Good.

We need to move past house prejudices. Not all Gryffindors are good and not all Slytherins are bad. People need to see past that.

Someone said that it annoys them that people use Peter as a reason why not all Gryffindors are good. That he shouldn't be one.

Excuse me? No. No house is perfect. No house is fully bad. No character is fully good or bad either. I mean, Hermione confunding Conrmac McLaggen is questionable morally. She's not a "perfect Gryffindor". None of them are.

Everyone has traits of all the houses to varying degrees. Just because you were sorted into one house, doesn't mean that you couldn't potentially have fitted into another.

Peter admired bravery. The hat saw that in him. He then acted in fear, although he may have tried to resist - we don't know the full story.

But Peter did have his moments of bravery. He spent the full noon with a werewolf in the form of a rat - an animal it could have eaten in a single swallow. He gave up his life for Harry. Sacrificed himself. Strangled himself so that Harry could escape with the full knowledge that that could result in the defeat of Voldemort.

Peter may have been a coward, but he definitely had his moments of courage. He was a Gryffindor, even though he went down a dark path. It's time that people accepted it and stopped being a son if a hippogriff about it.