AN: If I was JK, do you think I'd be here now? Didn't think so either, here's Godric Gryffindor.
1) When he was around six he remembers performing his first ever bit of magic, he was helping his father chop up firewood when suddenly a piece of wood caught on fire. He remembers that he wanted to hurry it up so that he could play with his older sister and well, things were never the same again.
2) At the age of sixteen, he left home with a friend, Salazar Slytherin; he too possessed powers of magic. Salazar convinced him that they should go and live with people who respected their powers, not people who he called muggles, non-magical people.
3) While they were on the road they met Rowena Ravenclaw and Godric fell in love. The first time he saw her was when he was making a fire, she was walking along a path next to his and Salazar's tent. She stopped and smiled at him, "Hello."
He stared at her for a while, completely unsure of what to say, he found himself captivated by her deep blue eyes and auburn hair, and to him she was the look of perfection.
4) Rowena joined them upon their journey when she saw Salazar doing magic. The three of them settled down in a village in Scotland called Hogsmeade, it was a quaint place that Godric loved. He loved walking through the snow and looking over the fields that the locals called The Hogwarts Fields.
5) He kissed Rowena for the first time upon his twentieth birthday. They were in the local inn called the Hog's Head with Salazar and his magical cousin called Helga. They had both drunken a fair amount of firewhiskey and were sitting out under the stars upon a nearby hillock. She was resting her head on his shoulder and he had his arm around her. She looked into the sky and gasped, "Godric, a shooting star!" She turned back to him and he kissed her, unleashing all his built up love and passion.
6) He had been all for Rowena's idea to set up a school for children, when they asked around, an old man by the name of Harry showed them an abandoned castle a few miles away in the Hogwarts Fields, Rowena had fallen in love with it so Godric and Salazar had bought it.
Over the next few years, they set about making it the perfect place, building more and more upon it until it finally looked like a school. Godric was to teach Charms, Rowena Transfiguration, Salazar Potions and Helga was to be the matron. They hired more teachers until they could teach over fifteen subjects.
Godric hated boasting and so gave the glory over to Salazar but it was he who created a book that recorded when every magical child was born, so that when they turned eleven, they could be collected by one of them and brought to the castle.
7) He became a father one night in June; Rowena gave birth to their daughter, a beautiful girl named Helena. Soon after the two of them married with Salazar and Helga as the witnesses. He was then the happiest man in the world; he had a wife, a daughter and two incredible friends.
8) He began to worry about Salazar soon after the birth of Helena. It had been Salazar's idea to split the students into four 'houses' each named after one of them. Salazar's own house was filled with some dubious people, one in particular, Salazar himself. He had become obsessed with Dark Magic, he claimed so that he could teach people how to defend against it but Godric could never fully believe him.
It broke his heart when Salazar went one step too far, he attacked Helga. Godric challenged him to a duel in front if all of his students. It broke his heart to heat his best friend yell such dark curses at him, and so he fought back. Not to kill, but to try and pull Salazar back into the light.
He won, but he failed and Salazar was banished from the castle.
9) Godric created the Sorting Hat so that every student would be placed wherever their heart most belonged. One of the first children to be sorted by it was his daughter Helena, and she went to Ravenclaw not that he minded. Watching his daughter grow up, he realised that she was going to be more like his mother that he.
Instead, when Rowena gave him a son, he tried even harder to try and see his son put in Gryffindor. In the end, he got his wish and Alexei Gryffindor became the first Head Boy, an award Helga had suggested along with the prefect system.
10) When Helena was eighteen, she stole an item that Godric had given to her for their wedding, her diadem. Godric ordered Helena's admirer Baron Tammo to track her down and bring her back.
11) Soon after, Rowena fell ill; nobody knew what was wrong with her so nobody could cure her. Godric sat by her side every day as she slowly faded away. When news came the Baron Tammo had been unsuccessful in bringing Helena back and had accidentally killed her, it pushed Rowena over the edge, and she died the next morning.
12) Godric was never really the same again, despite Helga and Alexei's bet efforts, he had shut down. He hardly ate and never left his quarters. Hogwarts began to die but it was not until Helga had shouted at him for hours did this really sink in. He had to move on, and so he through his life into making the school as brilliant as he could.
13) When he died, he was remembered as a hero. He had never thought of himself as a hero, just a man who gave everything to try and be the best. A man who had had it all, lost it and then got some of it back.