Thank you for this. I get really annoyed when people discount Hufflepuff as "the duffers" or "the rest" or "people who weren't special enough to get into the other Houses." Because, honestly? They're loyal, they work hard, and they accept people. I think those would be, in the world outside of Hogwarts, the most useful traits to have to get ahead. I'll bet most of the people who keep the wizarding world running smoothly--whether they work in the Ministry, or organize the pro Quidditch league, or run shops or businesses--are Hufflepuffs.
And I know all the canon villains seem to be Slytherins, but I think the scariest person you could ever possibly meet would be an evil!Hufflepuff. Because they would create evil schemes, and then actually put them into action. They would get stuff done. And eventually, they would take over the world.
Although I don't see myself as a Hufflepuff myself (I'm too lazy, I think), I guess I'm a 'puff wannabe. They seem like a really cool bunch of people, and besides that, they're very fair. Most of them are fair in a nice way, but even the others, like Zacharias, have the common goal of stepping back and saying, "Okay, what are we doing? Why are we doing it? Is this the right thing to do? How could we improve on it?" Which is a really sensible attitude toward basically everything.
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Thank you for this. I get really annoyed when people discount Hufflepuff as "the duffers" or "the rest" or "people who weren't special enough to get into the other Houses." Because, honestly? They're loyal, they work hard, and they accept people. I think those would be, in the world outside of Hogwarts, the most useful traits to have to get ahead. I'll bet most of the people who keep the wizarding world running smoothly--whether they work in the Ministry, or organize the pro Quidditch league, or run shops or businesses--are Hufflepuffs.
And I know all the canon villains seem to be Slytherins, but I think the scariest person you could ever possibly meet would be an evil!Hufflepuff. Because they would create evil schemes, and then actually put them into action. They would get stuff done. And eventually, they would take over the world.
Although I don't see myself as a Hufflepuff myself (I'm too lazy, I think), I guess I'm a 'puff wannabe. They seem like a really cool bunch of people, and besides that, they're very fair. Most of them are fair in a nice way, but even the others, like Zacharias, have the common goal of stepping back and saying, "Okay, what are we doing? Why are we doing it? Is this the right thing to do? How could we improve on it?" Which is a really sensible attitude toward basically everything.