Cormac McLaggen was a Gryffindor student who graduated from Hogwarts one year ahead of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger 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 Doxy 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 doxy egg poisoning at the time of tryouts and Ron Weasley was made Keeper instead.
He was also a member of the Slug Club in his sixth year.
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