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The Four Founders: Helga

We begin our journey in the Wales countryside at a small hovel with ivy and green ferns growing up the worn sides. Inside the home there was a large family of seven: the Hufflepuff family.

In this chapter we will focus on the youngest child present, a young cherub of a girl with golden curls and blonde eyelashes that caress her soft blue eyes. This five year old will someday become a great witch and create Herbology into the art that it is today. This five year old is Jacqueline H. Hufflepuff, or as she will be known in the future Helga Hufflepuff.

Her father, a poor Scotsman, provided for his family as best as he could be with his meager job as an unpopular blacksmith. Daniel Hufflepuff was remembered as kind, gentle-hearted man who loved his five children and wife. Helga inherited her blonde hair from her father.

Cathleen Hufflepuff, her mother, was well known around the poor Wales countryside for her medicinal powers and safe reliance on the plants that surrounded their home in a broad valley. Not only was she known as a medicine woman though, but also for her midwife duties and her lovely chestnut hair and piercing blue eyes, the very same eyes that Helga inherited.

Helga had four older siblings and was the most coddled of the five as she was the youngest child and the only girl. Her brothers were ranging from five to eighteen years older than her. By the time of her birth, her two eldest brothers had been married with the beginnings of their own family.

When Helga was ten years old, a rich couple from England had been on a trip enjoying the beautiful countryside of Wales when they discovered Daniel Hufflepuff's workshop.

The couple, later known as Richard and Elizabeth Gryffindor, recruited Daniel to their estate on the outskirts to be their official blacksmith. He was guaranteed a small house as well as pay.

By then Daniel would have done anything to improve his family's living situation so with one of their sons, Peter, and Helga they moved to North Yorkshire within a month time period. Daniel, Cathleen, Peter, and Helga were pleasantly surprised to see that their new "small" house was actually bigger than the last one with two bedrooms and a private outdoor latrine as well.

A few weeks after their arrival at the Gryffindor Estate, Helga wandered away from her home toward the main house and through the wild moor, something her parents had warned her about several times. Peter, normally in charge of looking after her, was with his tutor, as he was every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon.

At the large willow separating the servant's quarters from the main house sat a twelve year old boy, who looked not much older than eleven year old Helga. He looked up at her, surprised, and softly said, "Do you want to play chess with me?" This began Helga Hufflepuff and Godric Gryffindor's strong, everlasting friendship.

Five years later, when Godric was sixteen and Helga was fifteen, Godric had begged his parents to let him and his friends go to a wizarding convention. They had relented toward his pleading, but telling him he had to take Helga with him.

Helga by now was a sweet, pretty girl who was very much on the ground, unlike Godric and some of his friends. Richard and Elizabeth knew that she would prevent them from doing anything too undesirable.

Godric gladly agreed, ignorant of the fact that over the years Helga had developed a small crush on the handsome, headstrong teen. She would have been mortified to have it any other way, though.

She agreed, with much persuasion of her parents. While on the trip she would visit Peter, who was now furthering studying spells and enchantments with the country's most gifted students.

Godric, Helga, and three more friends left the next day for the convention, which would be where they would meet up with Rowena Ravenclaw and then, later on, Salazar Slytherin.


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