Why a Badger?

[AliMcJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 139712

I've looked around through posts and this has had some discussion.  
Does anyone have any insight on why the Hufflepuff mascot is a Badger 
and what sort of symbology it might have?

The only cultures I know of that have the Badger as a folk symbolic 
figure are the Native American and the Japanese, and then we have the 
idioms "to Badger someone" and "the Badger game" (unless I have the 
wrong animal in there, and I may -- where two people set up a scenario 
to take advantage of someone, a fake guerilla theatre of sorts, and 
then a third comes in, who is in cahoots with the two, and they bilk 
the unsuspecting victim, often a game of someone being set up with a 
woman who is in cahoots and then her boyfriend comes out of the 
woodwork with some sort of blackmail scheme).

Can anyone catch me up on thoughts on "Why a Badger?"


Ali