Cormac McLaggen

Cormac McLaggen was a Gryffindor student who graduated from Hogwarts one year ahead of Harry, Ron, and Herminoe in 1997. Arrogant and self-assured, Cormac illustrates the most negative aspects of the stereotypic Gryffindor characteristics. Though brave, he is more foolhardy than self-sacrificing, and he engaged in childish pranks (like eating a pound of poisonous doxie eggs on a bet) to prove his bravery.

Ironically enough, the same dare that led him to eat the doxie eggs also kept Cormac from joining the Gryffindor Quidditch team (something he cared a great deal about) in his sixth year at Hogwarts. With Oliver Wood's graduation at the end of the 1993-1994 school year and the Triwizard Tournament canceling all Quidditch matches the following year, the Gryffindor team was in need of a Keeper at the beginning of the 1995-1996 school year. Unfortunately for Cormac, he was in the hospital wing being treated for doxie egg poisoning at the time of tryouts and Ron Weasley was made Keeper instead.