Hagrid's (school) House, (not his hut)

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 4264

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
Kelley:
> > didn't it say Hagrid was in Huff in one of the books?  Harry 
> > says "I'll probably be in Huff,"  and doesn't Hagrid say "~I~ was 
> in > > Huff..." or something like that?  I could swear I saw this 
> somewhere,> > maybe not that exchange, but that it's stated that 
Hagrid was in> > Huff.  Am I nuts?  All right, all right, we know the 
answer to that > > one, keep your comments to yourselves... ;o]
 
Scott:
> Well don't feel bad, I already know that I'm completly daffy and I 
> agree with you here!  I KNOW (well of course I could be wrong) that 
> it said Hagrid was in Hufflepuff, or else STRONGLY implied (I'm 
> thinking the former as we both deduced this...)

Kelley:
Yippee!  Thank you, Scott.  I'm so glad I'm not the only one.  I was 
beginning to wonder if maybe I was just starting to make up my own 
story...

Scott: 
> The pasage to which you refered is this...
> 
> *******
> 
> "And what are Slytherin and Hufflepuff?"
> 
> "School houses. There's four. Everyone says Hufflepuff are a bunch 
o' 
> duffers but-"
> 
> I bet I'm in Hufflepuff," said Harry.
> 
> "Better in Hufflepuff than in Slytherin," said Hagrid darkly...
> 
> *****
> 
> Hagrid's "but-" could easily of been "I was in Hufflepuff." 
or "Your 
> Dad was in Hufflepuff" (though I feel JKR has indirectly disproved 
> the latter.) 

Kelley:
Yes, that is the passage I was thinking of, but...(down at the bottom)
 
> Another interesting thing is that the British Subject verb 
agreement 
> (Hufflepuff are) is used and not (Hufflepuff is) which is the 
> American way. ( and if this is wrong just remember I'm not the best 
> at grammar)
> 
> 
> Errr, anyway can anybody clear up this rather shadowy assumption 
that 
> Hagrid was in Hufflepuff (besides the JKR chat)... I just can't 
stop 
> think ing that it was SOMEWHERE in CoS. I shall continue to peruse 
> but if anyone knows anything....
> 
> Scott

...Like you, I keep feeling that it was ~stated~ somewhere, clearly, 
that he was in Huff.  You may be right, it could be in CoS--I'm just 
beginning to reread it, I'll try to skim and look for it.  Please, 
anyone, if you know what we're trying to think of, please help!  BTW, 
Scott, your post on questions for JKR was funny-- you really had me 
going at first; when I started reading those questions I was 
thinking 'O - M - G... you have ~got~ to be kidding me...'--then I 
laughed when I got to the rest of your post.  Good one!

Kelley