[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 10, THE HALLOWEEN

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Carol wrote:


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Can't think of any others offhand, but I would say that Hagrid's remark about Hufflepuffs being "duffers" is wholly unjustified. It's strange and a bit ironic that he holds a view similar to Draco's ("Imagine being in Hufflepuff. I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"), which, of course, is identical to James Potter's view of Slytherin.


Joey:
Was Hagrid making *his* opinion regarding Hufflepuff? I think he only said that Hufflepuffs are generally considered as duffers by everyone and by "everyone" I think he only meant to say "many people." He did say that it is better to be in Slytherin than Hufflepuff and that, IMO, was only to say how wicked he thought Slytherins were rather than saying that Hufflepuff is better only than Slytherin.


By the by, Hermione (and probably many other people) also seems to sport a similar view about Hufflepuffs and Slytherins as she tells Harry and Ron that Gryffindor is the best according to what she heard while she thinks being in Ravenclaw should be okay. She never mentions Hufflepuff. Slytherin seems to have earned a dark reputation by then and so, I presume the prejudice against Slytherin was quite widespread and even contagious, seeing how Harry, Ron, James enter the castle with this prejudice. I don't expect Hermione to be an exception. Yet it is not clear as to how *she* came to the conclusion that *Gryffindor* is the *best* - because DD (who had earned the "greatest wizard" reputation by then) was in it? Or because majority of the people whom she had spoken to thought it would be (is?) "cool" to be a Gryffindor? And, why does *she* say that being in *Ravenclaw* should be *okay* - because *she* thinks wit is a great trait? Or because she didn't
 hear anybody terming Ravenclaws as duffers?


I think the author herself sports this opinion to a certain extent. Even the way she has plotted Quidditch match results, I think she ended up recording her view: 1. Gryffindor, 2. Ravenclaw, 3. Hufflepuff, 4 (or none). Slytherin.


JMO, of course.

Cheers,
~Joey :-) 



      

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