I am a Hufflepuff (and I am Proud)
Like 4 or 5 years ago I re-made a Pottermore account.
For those not in the know, Pottermore is a Harry Potter themed website that is officially endorsed by the Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling. You can create a Pottermore account and play games, read little stories, etc, etc. Read nerd stuff.
There was an old Pottermore, which for some reason was supplanted by the new Pottermore. This supplanting meant that if you had an old Pottermore account, you had to create a new Pottermore account to stay on Pottermore.
So, being the little nerd that I am, I decided to create a new Pottermore account. The highlight of making a Pottermore account is getting to take the Official Sorting Hat Test, which is basically canon because this website is endorsed by J.K. Rowling herself.
So I strapped in and took the test...If you haven't read and/or seen Harry Potter, then I don't think this post will make a whole lot of sense to you. But in the story, there are these wizard kids, who go to a wizard school. They have different houses at the wizard school. If you are a Notre Dame Alumni, this is analogous to the house you live in on campus. If you went to another school, this is like which greek house you rush. It's kind of a big deal and central to your identity.
There are four different houses, each unique in their own way.
Folks sorted into Ravenclaw are like wicked smart and cerebral.
Gryffindor kids are reckless, but loyal and brave.
Slytherin people are vaguely sinister and menacing (but kinda have the sexy bad boy thing going).
Annnnnnddddd..... Hufflepuffs are like nice or something (???) and blase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Z5_wipT2o
Basically no ones wants to be a Hufflepuff. They're like the weird kids picked last for kick ball. The House that has no personality. They don't really do anything cool in the books and none of the cool characters are Hufflepuffs. Their House hero is the dude from Twilight.
He gets murked before he can do anything cool.
Their house color is yellow, which is a really hard color to pull off (holla if you can pull off yellow, you are one of God's chosen people). Their house critter is a badger (???).
Basically, Hufflepuff is pretty uncool and no one really aspires to be a Hufflepuff.
So when the Sorting Hat came back for me with Hufflepuff, I was like, "Bro, don't do this to me". I was mad.
But after researching my roots, I've come to be very proud to be a Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuffs are kind and inclusive--they're basically the opposite of the scary Death Eaters. If you read the Harry Potter books, you know that throughout wizarding history, there are Nazi-esque wizards that want to rule over everyone else (non-wizarding people, other wizardly beings). These wizards are the big bads--Death Eaters. There's like creepy shit they believe about "wizarding blood" and wizards without wizarding blood not being as good. and like subjugating other sentient beings. It gets pretty dark. The descriptions of the Death Eaters in the later books freaks me out. Anyway, to some extent, the other houses are kind of exclusive to wizards without wizarding blood, but the Hufflepuff founder, Helga Hufflepuff, welcomed all wizarding people, regardless of blood. Hufflepuffs welcome all people. They are notoriously nice.
They're secretly brave: according to Pottermore, the only house that rolls as deep as Gryffindor into the Battle of Hogwarts is Hufflepuff. They rolled deep, basically all of them stayed to fight, and they didn't do it for glory or war stories, they stayed because they thought it was right.
The Hufflepuff commons room/quarters is supposedly right next to the kitchen, so if you're a Hufflepuff, you prolly like to grub down.
So these are the reasons why I have grown to be proud to be a Hufflepuff. Sound off in the comments with your house and why you're proud to rep your set.
For those not in the know, Pottermore is a Harry Potter themed website that is officially endorsed by the Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling. You can create a Pottermore account and play games, read little stories, etc, etc. Read nerd stuff.
There was an old Pottermore, which for some reason was supplanted by the new Pottermore. This supplanting meant that if you had an old Pottermore account, you had to create a new Pottermore account to stay on Pottermore.
So, being the little nerd that I am, I decided to create a new Pottermore account. The highlight of making a Pottermore account is getting to take the Official Sorting Hat Test, which is basically canon because this website is endorsed by J.K. Rowling herself.
So I strapped in and took the test...If you haven't read and/or seen Harry Potter, then I don't think this post will make a whole lot of sense to you. But in the story, there are these wizard kids, who go to a wizard school. They have different houses at the wizard school. If you are a Notre Dame Alumni, this is analogous to the house you live in on campus. If you went to another school, this is like which greek house you rush. It's kind of a big deal and central to your identity.
There are four different houses, each unique in their own way.
Folks sorted into Ravenclaw are like wicked smart and cerebral.
Gryffindor kids are reckless, but loyal and brave.
Slytherin people are vaguely sinister and menacing (but kinda have the sexy bad boy thing going).
Annnnnnddddd..... Hufflepuffs are like nice or something (???) and blase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Z5_wipT2o
Basically no ones wants to be a Hufflepuff. They're like the weird kids picked last for kick ball. The House that has no personality. They don't really do anything cool in the books and none of the cool characters are Hufflepuffs. Their House hero is the dude from Twilight.
He gets murked before he can do anything cool.
Their house color is yellow, which is a really hard color to pull off (holla if you can pull off yellow, you are one of God's chosen people). Their house critter is a badger (???).
Basically, Hufflepuff is pretty uncool and no one really aspires to be a Hufflepuff.
So when the Sorting Hat came back for me with Hufflepuff, I was like, "Bro, don't do this to me". I was mad.
But after researching my roots, I've come to be very proud to be a Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuffs are kind and inclusive--they're basically the opposite of the scary Death Eaters. If you read the Harry Potter books, you know that throughout wizarding history, there are Nazi-esque wizards that want to rule over everyone else (non-wizarding people, other wizardly beings). These wizards are the big bads--Death Eaters. There's like creepy shit they believe about "wizarding blood" and wizards without wizarding blood not being as good. and like subjugating other sentient beings. It gets pretty dark. The descriptions of the Death Eaters in the later books freaks me out. Anyway, to some extent, the other houses are kind of exclusive to wizards without wizarding blood, but the Hufflepuff founder, Helga Hufflepuff, welcomed all wizarding people, regardless of blood. Hufflepuffs welcome all people. They are notoriously nice.
They're secretly brave: according to Pottermore, the only house that rolls as deep as Gryffindor into the Battle of Hogwarts is Hufflepuff. They rolled deep, basically all of them stayed to fight, and they didn't do it for glory or war stories, they stayed because they thought it was right.
The Hufflepuff commons room/quarters is supposedly right next to the kitchen, so if you're a Hufflepuff, you prolly like to grub down.
So these are the reasons why I have grown to be proud to be a Hufflepuff. Sound off in the comments with your house and why you're proud to rep your set.
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