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A/N: Part of several challenges.

200 Characters in 200 Days Challenge: 142: Helga Hufflepuff

If You Dare Challenge: 681: Enchanted Quill

Pick a Card, Any Card Challenge: Two of Spades: Write about a teacher. Alternatively, write about a particular class at Hogwarts.

Who? What? How? Challenge: 210: Helga Hufflepuff; 294: Funeral; 837: Refuse

Raise a Witch/Wizard Challenge: Write about someone who is happy being single.

Are You Crazy Enough? Challenge: 112: (character) Helga Hufflepuff.

Disney Character Challenge:Daisy Duck: Donald's girlfriend, who's sweet and kind. Write about a Hufflepuff. Alt write about Hannah Abbott.

Harry Potter Chapter Challenge:Flight Of The Prince - Write about teaching. Alternatively, write about running.

Helga Hufflepuff was quite content with being single and childless. She preferred her solitude to the constant presence and needs of a child. While she taught the students that she deemed loyal and hardworking, the other founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were beginning to concern themselves with starting a family now that the school was on its feet.

Rowena had fallen in love with a nice wizard that helped heal people, wizards and muggles alike. They had a beautiful daughter named Helena, who was rebellious but no less intelligent than any other student her mother taught.

Godric, though proud and arrogant, had been seen several times with a very nice muggle farmer's daughter. The two were likely to start a family very soon. Helga hoped that one of their children possibly ended up with her. The potential of a child with Godric's blood was exciting to Helga.

Salazar, on the other hand, had been having a bit of trouble finding a pureblood witch that would hold up to his standards. Helga didn't doubt that one day a nice maiden would turn up to love him for who he was, she just hoped that the frivolous rivalry between him and Godric would end soon so that the school wouldn't fall apart.

Helga was perfectly happy being alone. She loved creating new spells and finding creative ways to charm food. One of her favorite inventions so far, besides her cup, was an enchanted Sugar Quill that wrote with perfect handwriting and the end of it tasted like sugar. She insisted some of her students who couldn't write well to use it or liked putting things in their mouth.

As for why she didn't want children, she considered her students to be her kids and saw no need to have any more. She was very busy as it was between running the school, teaching, and creating her own charms. She also enjoyed spending individual time with her pupils.

Rowena often told her how being a mother changed a person. How she felt more complete with Helena in her life and that she couldn't imagine her life without her daughter. While Helga didn't doubt any of this she didn't feel the desire to be a mother when she had students to teach and a school to manage. She also didn't want a child for fear of favoring her kid over her other students. Rowena would laugh when she would say this and tell her that one day she would change her mind.

But she didn't. Helena grew up to be defiant of her mother's ideas. Then, when she ran off with the diadem, Rowena was heartbroken. It a part of her soul was ripped away like a Horcrux being destroyed. She had loved and trusted her daughter so much that the betrayal wounded her. She fell extremely ill and there was nothing her husband could do for her. When the news came back that the Baron had killed her daughter then himself, she withdrew to her quarters where she refused to eat or drink until she died. Her only legacy was her daughter who stayed at Hogwarts as a ghost to guide her mother's students.

After her best friend's funeral, she rejected the thought of ever having children of her own. She couldn't bear to die the way her fellow founder did. She respected kids and continued to teach for another year. But she continued to age and passed away three and a half years after Rowena died. Unlike her friend, she died happily knowing that the school would survive and that she had left a legacy of her own. Even when her body is gone her spirit will live on the in the school, which is enough for her.

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