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Harry Potter Explained - Why Was Wormtail In Gryffindor?

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today Ben dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to answer an age old question: Why was Peter Pettigrew AKA Wormtail sorted into Gryffindor?!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey brother, Peter Pettigrew, am I right? Like seriously one of the worst people in the entire

0:07.0

wizarding world. Not only does he hand over Lily and James to Voldemort, his two best friends that results in their death but he also

0:15.7

frames one of his other best friends for the death of 12 other people who he killed and he made everyone think that he got killed in the process too

0:25.3

which by the way he was then after his death awarded the order of Merlin which is

0:30.4

so frustrating then then he has the audacity

0:35.1

to sleep in the same room as Harry

0:37.4

for three years.

0:39.6

Disguised as a rat,

0:41.1

although it would be just as creepy if not more creepy if he wasn't discussed as a rat.

0:47.0

But seriously, how creepy is that? Like, how would you feel about finding out that the person who

0:52.0

murdered your parents was sleeping in the same room as

0:54.7

you for three years?

0:55.7

You know what, I don't even know why I said that out loud.

0:57.4

I'm never going to be able to sleep again.

0:59.1

On that note, I would be freaked out if I found out that my best friend was sleeping in my room without me knowing for three years,

1:05.1

especially if he was disguised as a rat. But from there he also goes about resurrecting Lord

1:10.0

Voldemort himself and sacrificing his own hand in the process.

1:14.3

Which 100% means, and I always like to remind myself of this,

1:17.8

that Voldemort is at least some percent rat.

1:20.8

And zero percent wedding planner planner am I right?

1:23.2

So yeah, he's a really terrible person behind a really terrible cause, but the thing that's even more

1:28.2

unusual about him is that almost all of his motivation for all of these decisions

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