2008 March 3, Fish Eye no Miko, “Re: Godzilla anime?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc[1] (Usenet):
Right. Scrappy wasn't so much "brave" as "dangerously reckless". Catherine Johnson. He would have made a great Gryffindor…
2011, Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Simon & Schuster BFYR (2011), →ISBN, page 142:
I gracelessly darted into the crowd and only narrowly avoided being elbowed in the face by a girl attired in what could only be described as “slutty Gryffindor” apparel.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a consummate Gryffindor. He comes across in interviews and speeches as someone who's truly kind and angry about the country's woes, though it's clear he doesn't recklessly allow this anger to cloud his decisions.
2012, Eloisa James, Paris in Love, Random House (2013), →ISBN, page 167:
I pulled out a Gryffindor key chain I had been saving for just such an emergency, and she cheered up while telling me why she was definitely a Gryffindor and not a Slytherin.
Kind of surprising — he always thought of himself as a Gryffindor — until he realized that Gryffindor was mainly where the dumb jocks went. Not the nerds.
I had just freed a man wearing a dark blue suit and a Gryffindor tie when Asil's shout made me turn to see Frost right on top of me.
2013, "To Do List", Liverpool Echo, 14 September 2013:
@Lord_Voldemort7 regularly finds time to post such musings as: "If you are what you eat then I'm a unicorn," and "Katy Perry's new single is called Roar? Does this mean she's a Gryffindor?".
