p data-p-id="66d3e9b90e4b5fe10721fd73713bae2b"emNot Slytherin, not Slytherin, please not Slytherin. /emI walked up to the hat with the one thought in my head, emnot Slytherin!/embr /emAgain with the 'not Slytherin' thing? Don't you kids ever get bored of it? /emThe hat spoke in my head, I jumped. emThere's more to life than pleasing your Gryffindor parents. And they wouldn't mind /emthat emmuch if you were in Slytherin. /embr /emPlease no. /emI asked it. br /emFine, but I suppose you think that makes you a Gryffindor, eh? They always do. But I don't think that's for you, I'll say HUFFLEPUFF! /emHe announced the last word to everyone present. br /I was very confused, as I walked to the correct table. I was so sure that I'd be a Gryffindor, all my family had been after all. And I'd already gotten the red and gold tie as a hand me down from my brother, now I'd have to get- what was the Hufflepuff colours? Yellow and black? Gah! I'm gonna have to remember this if I'm gonna be a Hufflepuff. br /I ate silently, lost in thought. br /But really? A emHufflepuff? /emWeren't Hufflepuffs all chubby, little, huggable squirts? Or, at least that's how I'd always imagined them. When I did. Which was rarely. br /What did a socially awkward guy with no-touchy problems like me belong in Hufflepuff?br /At the end of the meal, I followed the head boy out of the great hall with the other first years. br /"We're not all the overly kind teddy bears that you think we are." The head boy explained. "There have been some pretty spectacular Hufflepuffs in wizarding history, like Nymphadora Tonks, she was in the Order of the Phoenix, and Cedric Diggory, who won the Triwizard Tournament with Harry Potter himself. We can be pretty fierce if we want."br /Ok, now Hufflepuff sounds cooler. br /Maybe Mum and Dad won't be so mad that I wasn't in Gryffindor./p