A little one-shot for my Hogwarts Online house :)

All right, so this did turn a bit personal. If you're a Puff and you think I'm speaking nonsense, don't take offense, lol ^^

Love to everyone who's reading.

We are the unnoticed and the disregarded. We are the scorned and the ignored. We are the plain and the useless. We are not unique, we are not striking and we are most likely never to do anything worth noticing of our lives.

So you think.

Look closer. Look past the prejudices and the common, first-glance impressions. Look past our façades.

We are the house that might have the littlest self-confidence, and the house that will show it the least.

We are the house that will conceal the most. Slytherins are the liars, you think – but some Puffers are better than them at this game, way better. We hide it all beneath a smile, and put the others before us, at all times. Our feelings? Our beings? You'll have to look deeper, way deeper to find them. It takes some will, darling – it takes somes interest, to resolve a riddle without any dark appeal, a riddle that won't ever force itself on you. A Hufflepuff is one smiling riddle, and if you don't want to know of our problems, well, they'll never leak out. If you don't want to know all we have in ourselves, all we believe in and all we can fight for, you will not either. We will not make a show of ourselves.

I am generous, because I will fight for anyone harder than for myself.

I am loyal, because I will give my all to my friends, every ounce of strength I have until I can't take it anymore.

I am hard-working, because I will find myself a goal and go right through with it, not by walking on others, but by walking on myself, my own resistance and my inner fears.

I am nice, because I might have all the hatred in the world boiling inside my gut, but I will try and help you anyway.

I am a maelstrom of fucked-up emotions screaming to go out. I am strong yet cowardly, clever yet stupid, confident and ambitious through my hours of loathing and contempt.

But to the world, I am but another smiling, sweet girl, sowing clues nobody will pick up.

You can come to me with your problems, darling.

(I won't tell a soul)