OOP: Sorting hat's song

[Marie Jadewalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 63236

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
> The song goes:
> 
> 
> Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those 
> Whose ancestery is purest."
> 
> Said Ravenclaw "We'll teach those whose
> Intelligence is surest."
> 
> Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those
> With brave deeds to their name."
> 
> Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot,
> And treat them just the same."
> 
> 
> Why does Huffulepuff use "I'll" when everyone else uses "we'll"?  It
> must mean something, but I don't know what.
> 
> bibphile

Maybe it means that while all the others were arguing over who should 
be let into the school (the others just wanted their favorite kinds 
of students) she was going to accept everyone no matter what, and 
teach them as well as she could.  In other words, she wasn't going to 
fight with everyone else or try to influence how the whole school was 
run; she was just going to teach the students she could.  I don't 
know that there's much canon to support this, but the sorting hat 
does call her "Good Hufflepuff" when he says she took everyone that 
wasn't wanted by the other three houses.  

~Marie