[HPforGrownups] Re: Hufflepuffs (WAS:Neville and the sorting hat)

[Gail Bohacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 43966

Finwitch wrote:

>How many times Neville says he's not brave
>enough to be Gryffindor and that he should have been Hufflepuff for
>being so lousy.

Sorry, but I'm going to go off on a little tangent.  Forgive me.

Now, first, is there any canon which Neville says he "should be in 
Hufflepuff for being so lousy"?  I don't remember off hand. Correct me if 
I'm wrong

Second, there seems to be a bias against the illustrious Hufflepuff House 
(*cough*fyrewood*cough*) and I'm wondering why is that?  Maybe I read your 
statement incorrectly, Finwitch, but I took it to say that Neville, thinking 
himself to be too lousy for the likes of Gryffindor, should have been put 
into Hufflepuff, the place for the lousy to go.

I know that if I were to be sorted, the Hat would immediately say, 
"Hufflepuff", and I have not problem with that.  I am not ashamed.  "Loyal, 
true, patient..." these are adjectives that describe this House, but people 
seem to think that these qualities are not good enough, and that only the 
cowards (non-Gryffindors) the non-ambitious (non-Slytherins) and the stupid 
(non-Ravenclaws) are put there because there is nowhere else for them to go.

Could somebody please tell me where Hufflepuff got this bad rap?  And, in 
general, why are the qualities which Hufflepuffs are said to possess not 
valued like the others?

>It would be ridiculous if the person can not be proud >of the house he's
>in...

Here here.

-Gail B.  who is going off to have a good sulk.


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