SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - JKR updated website ;) Spoilers? Maybe?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 168443

> Hickengruendler:
> 
> And would you have counted Myrtle as a sympathetic Slytherin? ;-) 
> I'm glad with her answers, by the way. I love Hufflepuff and am 
> destavated, that it seems to get hardly any respect in Canon by the 
> other characters and in Fandom, making a generally beloved 
> character like Tonks a Hufflepuff can only help. And Ravenclaw so 
> fits Myrtle.Smug as she was, that Cedric took so long solving the 
> egg riddle. ;-)

Jen: Yes, Tonks in Hufflepuff!  I figured Slytherin because of the 
family heritage.  Tonks appears to represent ideals JKR values in the 
story:  She comes from a diverse family background with a father who 
was a Muggle and a mother who decided for whatever reason to break 
ties with a family supporting pureblood elitism.  She's powerful 
enough to be an auror and yet socially aware enough to believe in the 
mission of the Order.  Plus Tonks comes across as a compassionate 
character for the struggles of others, like when she notes Harry 
wishing he didn't have a visible scar and seeing beyond Remus being a 
werewolf to the man inside.

All that to say it's good to finally see another positive 
representative of Hufflepuff and learn a little more about the 
characteristics indicating why a person would be sorted into that 
house.  It's a little hard to tell from Ernie, Zacharias and Hannah 
because Harry doesn't give much information about them and much of it 
is negative (how they acted in COS, Ernie's pompusness, Hannah 
needing a calming draught to get through exams, Zacharias being a 
jerk, etc.).  Harry does seem to have some respect for the Bones 
family and I suppose they might represent Hufflepuff since Susan is 
in the house?

Jen, biased because she's always sorted into Hufflepuff no matter 
which test she tries. ;)