just an idea i had for a short story. i will be uploading more soon. i had fun with this!
People don't seem to notice you when you're a Hufflepuff. I noticed that in first year when I got repeatedly marked absent in most of my classes, despite my perfect attendance. Then there was the time in third year when I left my bag in Potions, and when I went back to get it and asked Slughorn if he'd seen it, he told me he didn't even know that I was in his class, to which I responded, " Yes, Professor. You've been my teacher for three years."
Slughorn would have noticed if Lily Evans's bag was left in his classroom, or if Severus Snape's had been, or even if Amos Diggory's was. Why? Because none of them are Hufflepuffs. Lily is a Gryffindor; brave and bold and all that nonsense. Then there's Snape, the cunning and ambitious Slytherin. Of Course, Amos is sharp-witted and intelligent, the tell-tale signs of a Ravenclaw. Me? Well I'm...
Just what the hell is a Hufflepuff anyway?
Every year at the start of term I listen to the Sorting Hat's song, and every year I take away the same thing: nothing. That hat does not say anything about us Hufflepuffs. I strain my ears and listen hard, but all I get is nonsense. Gryffindors: brave. Slytherins: ambitious. Ravenclaws: intelligent. Hufflepuffs?
Me?
I feel like a nothing. Like a discarded, worthless, nothing. I wish to Merlin that I could stand up and say with pride and without fear of humiliation that I am a Hufflepuff, but I can't. I can't say I'm a Hufflepuff, because I don't know what a Hufflepuff is. All I know is what a Hufflepuff isn't, and it isn't a Gryffindor, or a Ravenclaw, or a Slytherin.
I haven't really voiced this uncertainty to too many people, but there was one instance when I asked Professor Sprout about it. I assumed that as the head of the Hufflepuff house, the dear Professor could give me some long sought-after answers.
" What's a Hufflepuff? Oh, really dear, show some pride. Go on- look in the mirror and you've got your answer."
Disappointed as I was in this rather lame answer, I did as Professor Sprout advised. I made a list of all of my traits, or what I think are my traits, which only proved to make me more confused. I don't want to be conceited about it, but I have to say that I am decently brave, and ambitious, and intelligent, at least to some degree. So what was it about me that had stopped me from being sorted into the other three houses? What?
" Well, aren't Hufflepuffs supposed to be loyal?" said Merriam, my best friend and fellow Hufflepuff, when I asked her. " You know- hardworking and loyal."
" Loyal?" I repeated, still not really satisfied. I knew plenty of loyal Gryffindors. Hell, I even knew some loyal Slytherins. It had to be more than that.
Merriam didn't seem nearly as bothered by my musings as I was though, and so I didn't bring it up much. In fact, none of my fellow Hufflepuffs seemed to care at all why they had been chosen for the least-desirable house of the four.
That's another thing; why was the Hufflepuff house given such a bad reputation? What evil and dark wizards have ever sprung from the Hufflepuff house? Surely Slytherin should be least desired among the four, but no. I've heard plenty of people say they wanted to be in Slytherin. I've never heard of anyone who wanted to be a Hufflepuff.
I know I didn't.
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