OOP: The Four Founders (was: OotP Spoiler- Neville's Wand)

[Christi]

No: HPFGUIDX 62486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jodel at a... wrote:
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> > >>We have also learned that Hufflepuff is indeed the 'default 
> house',<<
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> > Oh have we? Have we *really*? Well, if so, I just lost a great 
deal 
> of 
> > respect for Rowling right there. There is no need for 
a "default" 
> house.
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> After the sorting hat song, Helga Hufflepuff was at once my 
favorite 
> of the four founders. Because I thought, that Rovena Ravenclaw and 
> Godric Gryffindor were as prejudiced as Slytherin (well, I doubt 
> anyone of the two has built any secret chambers with hidden 
> Basilisks, however). Ravenclaw just wanted to have the cleverest 
and 
> Gryffindor the bravest, but Helga Hufflepuff was obviously willing 
to 
> give everyone a chance. Maybe Hufflepuff is really the default 
house, 
> but if this history is true, they should be proud of it. And, 
after 
> all, Cedric Diggory was Hogwarts Champio, and he was a Hufflepuff, 
> that's pretty good for default.
> 
> Hickengruendler



I apologize if I offended anyone, and I mean no disrespect to 
Hufflepuff House. In retrospect I realize that I posted this in 
continuation of a thread that was running on a different group. The 
thread was postulatinh that Neville was sorted to Gryffindor because 
he was too stupid for Ravenclaw, not enough of a team player for 
Hufflepuff, and not ambitious enough for Slytherin. Gryffindor was 
further postulated to be the 'default house'. Under this logic we 
found that he would have been sorted into Hufflepuff if he had not 
fit the criteria for other houses. I must say that Helga had it 
right out of ofthe four, and that all magical children deserved to 
be taught, not just the smartest, bravest, and most ambitious. If 
the Sorting Hat was correct ("Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest") 
Hufflepuff took the children that the other three rejected, but I 
don't think that makes the qualities of hard work and loyalty any 
less desirable or should put Hufflepuff in a bad light. We've seen 
some truly admirable Hufflepuffs, Cedric at first, and I didn't 
check but I had thought that the students who came to Harry's 
defense (on the train on the way home) were all in Hufflepuff. I was 
merely tired of people saying that Neville was not brave enough to 
fit into Gryffindor unless it was the 'default House'. 


Once again I apologize for any offense. My post would have made much 
on the group in which the original thres had run, and in any case I 
should have made clear what I was really saying. For some reason I 
have a difficult timeformulating coherent posts lately.


Christi T.