OOP: Hufflepuff WAS MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 65001


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "outahand6789" 
> <si1verwolf at h...> wrote:
> > ***does anyone else get the feeling that 
> > Hufflepuff's full of rejects?***

> Joe in SoFla wrote:
> I don't. I think that Hufflepuff gets people that are diligent and 
> loyal and are, in all probability, far greater than the sum of 
their 
> parts. Where would someone go if they were ambitious but not AS 
> ambitious as a Slytherin? Or clever but not QUITE as clever as a 
> Ravenclaw?
> 

I'm beginning to admire Hufflepuff hugely since OOP came out. This 
is a house founded by someone who would 'teach the lot, and treat 
them just the same'. Meantime, the brave, the intelligent and the 
ambitious are being 'creamed off' to the other houses.

[Anyone else reminded of the argument that private schools cream off 
the brightest and the best, and the state run schools are left with 
the duffers?]

But instead of feeling themselves the dumping ground, Hufflepuff 
seems to have come up with its own ethos. Loyalty, hard work, 
fairness.

You may not be as brave as a Gryffindor, but you can be loyal to 
your housemates. You may not be as bright as a Ravenclaw, but hard 
work might get you further. You may not be as ambitious as a 
Slytherin, but you can be fair.

Hufflepuff is, I suspect, the house that tries to make sure everyone 
passes their OWLS. They strike me as the sort of house that would, 
when faced with an obstacle course, work out some way to get every 
single team member over it.

They might lose out on the school glory, but I bet a lot of 
Hufflepuffs are successful and happy in later life.

Pip!Squeak