Hello everyone, welcome back to the series where we see whether we can link Harry Potter and Jungian psychological types. Last time around we covered half of Gryffindor’s combinations, and this time around we’re gonna be finishing our analysis of the gold and crimson house.

Once again, I highly recommend you go and read Gryffindor’s article, so you can get a better idea of our starting point. You’d also do well to read the article concerning itself with the houses of Horned Serpent and Wampus, for the same reason.

Gryffindor – Horned Serpent

(Horned Gryffin)

The scholarly, intellectual house of Ilvermorny meets the bold, daring house of Hogwarts. Right off the bat, we remember how Gryffindors were typically ESFPs and Horned Serpents were INTP/INTJ. How could these seemingly opposite worlds meet? Very well, as a matter of fact, and anyone doubting this should look no further than our very own Hermione Granger, who fits the bill so neatly it’s almost surprising that she hasn’t been made an honorary member of that house yet.

The combination of houses yields a highly interesting result, though one which should not really surprise anyone. Their mutually opposite focuses balance out, tending ever so slightly towards Extroversion but being overall neutral towards Focus. This tells us that there are various shades of Horned Gryffins, both the more outspoken as well as the more introspective. However, that’s pretty much where the time for indecision ends. While Horned Serpent had a slight, yet noticeable tendency towards Intuitive Information Intake, Gryffindor’s strong preference for Sensing sets through in gargantuan ways, pushing Horned Gryffin’s preference to 30%, against our base of 15.46%. This is extremely significant, since they are second only to Hufflewudgies as the house with the strongest preference for Sensing. Let there be no doubt – Horned Gryffins are grounded, concrete people, who don’t dabble in theory or concern themselves with metaphors.

The second marked tendency in this house is regarding Decisionmaking, where again the Gryffindor side sets itself through. They have a pronounced tendency towards Feeling, which is almost a trademark of the Lion’s house, symbolizing their strong personal values, and their heightened empathy towards people. As a closing remark, their Outer Actions tend towards Perception. The value is borderline definitive, if almost neutral, but for the sake of narrowing down the definition I’m going to consider it as Perceptive. This is seemingly the only aspect where Gryffindor gives way to Horned Serpent, making them more flexible and spontaneous than most Gryffindors (which is saying something). This paints a vivid picture in my mind of Horned Gryffins being people with tremendously prevalent personal values, who seek the best in others, but are extremely practical and grounded in reality.

Here is a chart comparing Horned Gryffin values to the individual houses, with the 0 line being our average reader.



Key

Values to the right correspond to predominant Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging

Values to the left correspond to predominant Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perception

The further a value from the middle line, the more predominant it is.

We can see here how this house meshes quite nicely, with a defined personality but still being a mixture of both houses. We could define our Horned Gryffins as follows:

“Horned Gryffin has a neutral tendency towards Focus, a very strong tendency towards Information Intake through Sensing, a moderate tendency towards Decisionmaking through Feeling and a slight tendency towards Outer Perception”.

Our quintessential Horned Gryffin would therefore be a ESFP/ISFP

Gryffindor – Wampus

(Wampindor)

The final type of Griffyndor, the brave, bold, warring Wampindor, is remarkably the rarest of all Gryffindors in our survey. This is surprising, given what most people thought would be the most common house combination for Gryffindor, but I believe having a tremendously small sample size played a big part in this. It’s so small, in fact, that Wampindor are the rarest house combination, bar none, in our survey.

This small sample size, in turn, makes it very difficult to make assertive statements, since every small change makes values sway greatly. Even so, some values are clearer than others. For example, Focus is undoubted here with a much higher than average preference for Extroversion. I will refrain from going too in depth on these readings, again, based on the sample size. Information intake is where they look closer to the average reader, and even then there’s a strong preference towards Intuition, with a 6.37% deviation from the base.

This is where it gets outlandish, though. Both Decisionmaking and Outer Actions are off the charts, but it makes sense within the sample size, and with the definitions of the house themselves. Their preference towards Thinking is strong, very much so, and it makes them the only Gryffindors with this preference. And no other house comes even close to their preference for Perception, at a staggering 81.82%, a difference of over 33% against our base reader.

So what does this tell us about the warring Wampindors? For starters, they’re outspoken, extroverted people, who prefer to lead. Their NT role comes strong into play, allowing them to see a broader picture, to drift into imagination, while they value justice above all else, in a reasonable fashion. And their overwhelming Perception aspect gives them freedom of choice, to wander, to bend the rules and assess situations. Wampindors are natural born leaders, who prefer to command in a very fair manner, and let themselves be heard.

Here is a chart comparing Wampindor values to the individual houses, with the 0 line being our average reader.



Key

Values to the right correspond to predominant Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging

Values to the left correspond to predominant Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perception

The further a value from the middle line, the more predominant it is.

(I changed graph design halfway through – comment whether you prefer this or the other type, so I have something to work on)

We could define Wampindor as follows:

“Wampindor has a strong tendency towards Extroverted Focus, a moderate tendency towards Information Intake through Intuition, a very strong tendency towards Decisionmaking through Thinking and a very strong tendency towards Outer Perception”.

Undoubtedly, Wampindors are ENTP.

Summing up, here is a distribution of the Gryffindor houses, as well as where they fall on the MBTI scales.



Once again, thank all of our Gryffindor readers and participants for providing the data for these articles. This concludes our analysis of the House of Gryffindor, tune in on Thursday as we start unravelilng the data of Ravenclaw. Cheers!