If this is about duelling skills, I guess mine looks like that:
1. Albus Dumbledore - defeated Grindelwald and stalemated with the most powerful dark wizard of all time without trying to kill him.
2. Voldemort - This is a tough choice but I will just take his title for granted.
3. Gellert Grindelwald - Obviously
4. Bellatrix Lestrange - a prodigious witch with outstanding duelling skills.
5. Filius Flitwick - a duelling champion, he defeated Dolohov one of the more powerful death eaters.
6. Antonin Dolohov - Antonin Dolohov was an extremely skilled dueller who killed Lupin, the Prewett brothers and even defeated Alastor Moody
7. Sirius Black - an excellent dueller who did manage to hold his own against Bellatrix Lestrange, his recklessness caused his death.
8. Kingsley Shacklebolt - probably the best auror of his time, he was the personal bodyguard of Fudge and the one supposed to catch Sirius. He showed at numerous times that he was able to fight several death eaters at once.
9. Minerva Mcgonagall - her transfiguration skills amazed me.
Now I'm going to talk about the absents who obviously should have their place in this ranking.
Alastor Moody considered to be the greatest auror of all time has without a doubt his place his place on the list, I didn't put him because I don't know how skilled he was in his prime. Something tells me that he is the one who caught Dolohov and that this is the reason why Dolohov seemed really satisfied to have defeated him although this is just speculation, however Dolohov is said to be one of the earlier death eaters so he is at least in Moody generation and in that case should have got even more rusty than him, having been jailed at Azkaban for 15 years.
At any rate Moody in his prime really high up there probably among the top 6.
James Potter, the leader of the marauders, considered to be one of the cleverest student of his time at Hogwarts, he was asked to join the death eaters along with his wife so I guess he was pretty powerful wizard. His only feat is his little showdown against Snape at the end of his fifth year and from what I saw he had excellents reflexes who made him able to easily disarm Snape. The problem is that he died too early for us to know how good he really was but with all his hype I would put him around Sirius.
Severus Snape could have been the 10th but I was hesitating with Remus Lupin, he showed that he was highly capable dueller better than the average but he never showed outstanding feats in that area. He is surely a talented wizard with a wide variety of skills but not the extremely talented duellist that most of his fans believe him to be, as I said there is the difference between being a great dueller and being a great wizard overall.
Remus Lupin, the best DADA teacher Harry ever had, who is said to be extremely talented in these areas, he survived the First wizard War while many others found their death and he managed to come out of several battle unscathed. I feel that he is fairly good dueller and between he and Snape I don't know who would win.
Of course there is alot of others wizards who could have their place on the list such as Amelia Bones who is said to be powerful witch who put up a fight against Voldemort himself, there are Order members who died during the first war such as Edgar Bones (Amelia's brothers), Fabian and Gideon Prewett (Molly's brothers) who are said to have "fought like heroes", Aberforth Dumbledore who participated in a three-way duel between himself, Albus and Gellert Grindelwald and defeated Rookwood, the Longbottoms who were extremely popular auror renowned at the moment. On the dark side there are Yaxley who seems to be proficient dueller as he managed to hold his own against Flitwick awhile, Evan Rosier a young death eater who put up a fight against Prime Moody as he took his nose...
In brief I just put the wizards we know best but we can speculate about a lot of wizard who could apply to this list.
@rbt said:
Mostly the same. Only difference would be that Ron and Harry would share Shacklebolt's position. They are said to be one of the greatest aurors. Now I don't think they ever became as good as Moody, but they should've reached/surpassed Kingsley.
Ron left the aurors after two years so even though I'm sure he is a fairly skilled dueller but I don't think he reached Kingsley's level. However Harry became the youngest head of the Auror Office mostly because of his leadership's skills and and his feats during the war, I have no doubt that he became a highly proficient fighter.
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