[HPforGrownups] What's wrong with Hufflepuff?

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19192

In a message dated 5/22/01 12:47:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
blpurdom at yahoo.com writes:


> What is the proportion of Muggle-born students in each
> house?  Because of the fact that Hufflepuffs aren't
> afraid of hard work, would Hufflepuff wind up with the
> most Muggle-borns?  Are there any Muggle-borns at all
> in Slytherin?  And if Dark Wizards ever took over
> Hogwarts and decreed that Muggle-borns would no longer
> be accepted, would Slytherin have twice as many
> students as the other houses (which otherwise would
> have had some Muggle-borns)?  Any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> 

At first thought, it seems unlikely that there would be Muggle-borns in 
Slytherin.  The Sorting Hat was made so that it could carry on the 
preferences of the four original founders of the school, and Slytherin was 
very much against having Muggle-borns in the school, and especially in his 
own house.  Of course, Tom Riddle was a half-blood, but maybe an exception 
was made for the heir of Slytherin who would end up killing his Muggle father 
and grandparents and who would later wage a war against all Muggles and 
Muggle-borns.  Or maybe half-bloods are allowed.  In any case, I think that 
if I were Muggle-born, or even a half-blood, who was in Slytherin, I wouldn't 
want to discuss my family very much...but then maybe I wouldn't be put in 
Slytherin in the first place.  It seems likely that a Muggle-born student 
might hear enough about Slytherin House on the Hogwarts Express to know that 
he or she would not belong there.  And the Sorting Hat would probably not put 
a student in a house that he knew he did not want to be in.
As for the number of Muggle-borns in other houses, I think they might be 
roughly equal.  We don't really know too much about the students in the other 
houses, although we know that Justin Finch-Fletchley, a Hufflepuff, is 
Muggle-born.  But then there are also Cedric Diggory and Ernie Macmillan, who 
are both pure-blood wizards.  In Gryffindor, we know Hermione is Muggle-born, 
and Seamus Finnigan is a half-blood.  I think there's also evidence to the 
fact that Lavender Brown might be Muggle-born.  And isn't Dean Thomas 
Muggle-born as well?  We don't know much about Ravenclaw, but I would assume 
that the number of Muggle-borns in each house would be about the same, except 
for Slytherin.
Sorry if I was rambling :)
Devika


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