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dipsas

Thoughts About 'The Rest'

Mar 25, 2005 10:51

The Sorting Hat meme that was making the rounds last week prompted a few (and non-exhaustive) thoughts on why I - and I end up in that house every time I take a test to be Sorted - always feel it's a compliment to be Sorted into Hufflepuff and something quite hard to live up to. We're told from the first that 'Puffs are hardworking and honest. ( Read more... )

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akashasheiress March 25 2005, 12:19:11 UTC

Very good post, indeed!

dipsas March 25 2005, 12:50:59 UTC

Thanks! I'm rather fond of Hufflepuff House. :)

straussmonster March 25 2005, 14:20:24 UTC

Me loves the Hufflepuffs. Helga is totally on the high moral ground in offering to teach anyone who comes and wants to learn, rather than discriminating by ability (Rowena and Godric) or some insane condition that doesn't actually really even exist besides possibly culturally (Salazar). Hufflepuff is the ideology that will probably save them all. Wooooo Helga!

dipsas March 25 2005, 22:17:01 UTC

*waves Hufflepuff banner*

I agree that in the course of the final books, it'll probably dawn on people that though normally not very visible, Hogwarts couldn't possibly do without the 'Puffs.

mafdet March 25 2005, 15:02:22 UTC

Sing it sister! Puffs rule! Helga was by far the coolest and best of the Founders.

I've always felt that JKR is setting up Hufflepuff as something that Harry is going to have to find out, "don't believe everything you're told." We might hear that Hufflepuff is "a load of duffers" but are we shown that? No. All the Hufflepuffs, especially Cedric and Professor Sprout, are very capable and intelligent. I don't think we've met a duffer Hufflepuff yet. (OTOH who have we met who are duffers? Yup, Draco's pet trolls, Crabbe and Goyle. They're repeatedly singled out as being especially thick and incompetent. And they are NOT Hufflepuffs.)

dipsas March 25 2005, 21:57:27 UTC

We might hear that Hufflepuff is "a load of duffers" but are we shown that? No.

...and on the few occasions where he hasn't got their support, Harry lacks them sorely, so obviously they were important to him after all...

absurdwords March 25 2005, 16:08:44 UTC

If Hufflepuff is dull, I like dull.

I'll take the rest: how can this be bad? It implies there's no need to feel like you're not going to fit in.

Cedric doesn't sound like a dull guy at all. I bet many girls at Hogwarts had a crush on him XD

Actually, I'm convinced Hufflepuff has the best parties of all.

dipsas March 25 2005, 22:02:08 UTC

Me likes dull too... :)

I think Hufflepuffs with their ability to look after each other and their own in an non-flashy way can give students a great start or basis in life - I'll bet we'll see more of them.