Sirius Black

Sirius Orion Black (3 November, 1959 – 18 June, 1996), also known as Padfoot, was a pure-blood wizard, the elder son of Orion and Walburga Black, and the brother of Regulus Black. Although he was the heir of the House of Black, Sirius disagreed with his family's belief in blood purity and defied tradition, when he was sorted into Gryffindor House instead of Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which he attended from 1971-1978. As the rest of his family had been in Slytherin, he was the odd one out.