We're talking about drinks and/or food, this gotta be good.

Mhh defindtly punkin jucie, but for some reason i see Spourt liking a good strong cup of coffee in the mornings as well just to get her awake and preky especially with some of the plants she's around.
Food - maybe lots of veggies and furit.

*Buckbeak rules*

P.S. who actully is a Puff i am starting to lose track lol

well i'm a proud puff and on the topic of food and drink i think that sprout is a sort of tea and pumkin juice person who also enjoys butterbeer. food i can easily see her eating saled soup eggs and toast! also why is it that hufflepuff never seems to win enything? I mean we arn't stupid conseted headstrong knowit alls or anything isn those catorgories! so why do we always loose. totaly not fair!!

I see Sprout as a total carnivore...hamburgers, steak, porkchops. I think she respects plants too much to eat them. Besides that I guess she'd just drink water and/or milk.

And we don't lose everything. Technically, a Hufflepuff was the Triwazard Co-Champion.

That is very true Auror...how many times do you see Slytherin win anything? We always lose to those blasted Gryffindors!!

Anyway, Hufflepuff's are kind of the force beind everyone else. You don't hear a lot about them, but if they weren't there, something would definitely be lacking. It would be like losing your arm or something.

I see Professor Sprout as the absent minded professor who doesn't really pay much attention to what she eats as long as she's getting nourishment.

Hold on there Charmer. In the pre-Harry days, Slytherin was on quite the winning streak. Seven consecutive House Cups and multiple winner of Quidditch Cup (five times?), if I remember correctly. That is nothing to be ashamed about.

About Sprout, I always think of her as eating many root vegetables. Carrots, potatoes, turnips, onions, etc. (And I don't think potatoes are technically a root vegetable.) Anyhow, there would be something alluring about digging in the soil to get her food that would be appealing. Just a thought.

What about Smith, though? I think he comes from a rich family, so his favorite foods are probably well-to-do fancy dishes. I am not British, so help me out here. What would be considered as a fancy dish in Britain?

Smith would eat caviar and that sort of thing, that's my guess. I still see sprout as anti-vegan. I'd guess her favorite dish would be haggis, assuming I spelled that correctly.

Slytherin did have quite the win streak going before Harry arrived. There having, as we say here in America, a rebuilding period.

I agree wih you auror14, I saw Sprout as a carnivore. Like she respected the plants to much to eat them. And to drink I would think mainly water.

For smith, I think of fancy foods. I am not British either so I don't know any fancy British foods.

What about Cedric?

Well thats it for me.
Pottie Peace All,
Ginny

Well, Cedric didn't hate tea. I guess he would like butterbeer and pumpkin juice like most of the students. I envision him drinking mostly coffee though. As for a favorite food, I don't know. I think he would like something savoty, like a roast. I don't think of him being overly fond of sweets.

Slytherin won the house cup quidditch ect.. for years Harry just put an end to it. But cederic is the only famous, winning huff. I mean with his quidditch team they came closest to the cup. But ravenclaw flattened us so onece again we lost. it seems that the cunning brilliant, and brave win over loyalty. man we need to win somthing! is there a haven't won in over a century award? Oh well.
Oh guys i just got the books Magical Creatures and where to Find Them, and Quidditch through The Ages, i didn't know JKR had written them!!! They rock!!!

Congrats on getting the books. JK wrote them a few years ago. They are quite interesting, I think. I am particularly fond of the comments in Beasts.

Anyhow, I know that Hufflepuff (apart from Cedric) did not receive much glory. I take this to mean House and Quidditch Cups. But what about other clubs? I bet Hufflepuff kicks but at gobstones. Gobstones also doesn't seem to garner too much glory. What are your thoughts?

I agree the comments in M.C.A.W.T.F.T. are great!!
As for gobstones i just don't see huffs being any better at it then any one else. I mean we are just average, normal people who are great friends! But al the extrodenarialy talented people are in the differn't houses. man i do not think this is fair! But i mean this doesn't mean we are not smart or talented, heck i won at the state lvl with my science fair progect! Cederic would have won the cup! unfortunatly voldie messed him up and then killed him!!! i hate voldie!! But i think we are sort of the averge joes, but we are loyal and i think that it is very important we remember this!

Hey Hufflepufs what have you all been talking about? I hope you all had a lovely christmas and a very happy new year!! . Sorry my last post was like 2 weeks ago it is because i haven't really been visiting the lounge that much!!!

i haven't been here for weeks so merry christmas everybody and a happy new year...
now,i will say it again,i don't thibk we are losers.we are hufflepuffs and must be proud of being one of them.just because we don't have many glorious moments doesn't mean we aren't great...the club subject is a difficult one....i bet we had the majority of gobstones but can't think of anything else...also we were the house with the fewest of students in the DA if i am not mistaken

I don't mean to nit-pick, but actually you are mistaken. We at had at least two members of the DA, whereas Slytherin had none. In my opinion, Hufflepuff is the best house regardless of what we have or have not won over the years. Gryffindors are winning now, but they always seem to almost luck their way to their wins. Slytherin will do anything to win, cheating included. Ravenclaw, in my opinion, we know less of than Hufflepuff other than Luna and Cho. But we always seem to either be in contention for the Quidditch Cup or in position to play spoiler, we had the only legal participant in the Triwizard tournment, something that hadn't been held for a hundred years. Naw, we don't win much, but I don't care.

Ravenclaw had the least, i thought. ravenclaw had Cho, Cho's (traitor) friend, three ravenclaw boys and that was it. We had Justin, Erine, Hannah, another puff harry didn't know, and Smith. it's even. 5 and 5. thou Slytherin still loses in who had the most at the DA (which was Gryfffindor). and (no offense Ravenclaws) at least one of our number wasn't the "sneak".

*Buckbeak rules*

Hey Hufflepuffs I'm a Gryffindor but I thought I was going to be a Hufflepuff. I've liked Hufflepuffs for a while because they kind of remind me of well me the way they hardly ever do great stuff but when they do it's really great. Like Cedric which in my opinion being in the, and almost winning and only losing cause Voldy kills you, TriWizard Tournment beats the winning the house cup any day.
Actually of the HP characters my brother and I made up all but one (who's Gryffindor) ended up in Hufflepuff.
I've also always liked the minor Hufflepuff characters like Cedric, Hannah, Ernie, Justin, Susan.

For the most part, Hufflepuff does not go seeking glory. Every other house does. Hufflepuff is not a house of losers, it is a house of contentment. There is not the need to prove yourself found in the other houses. I don't know if this reflects a lack of competitive spirit, or greater maturity.

Since the Harry Potter series doesn't mention much of Hufflepuff's we're not really sure what the basic attitudes of them are as we are shown in others houses. When we think of the Hufflepuff House, the character who comes to mind is Cedric who seemed competitive yet helpful to competention... and in my own opinion, kinda rude at first but friendly once you get to know him a bit. And people sorted into Hufflepuff was put their either because they didn't show any or a mixture of other house traits...

as a new Hufflepuff I find your converstion here very interesting! I´ve never really even thought about Hufflepuff beeing so underestimated, probably because I´m all Helga is. I so belong to Hufflepuff! :]

There´s nothing wrong with not seeking glory and keeping the weeks side. The ones who dare to defent weaker are the strongest and bravest! If there were a house that could bring all the wizard world together it would most definetly be the Hufflepuff house!

It does seem that Hufflepuffs tend to accept others moreso than other houses (except possibly Ravenclaw, another house we do not know enough about). This is both a strength and a weakness. As Harry believes, this is precisely Dumbledore's greatest weakness.

We as puffs are Kind! We don't have swollen heads, no offence claws, we don't have cheat, once again no offence slytherins, we don't just rush into things without thinking!, once again no offence griffs, my best friend is a griffendor and such she tends to do thing that are a bit reckless, though in saing so im being a bit hypacritacal as i'm on a first name bases with the emergency room nurses. Still i don't just put a ladder down and climb up without checking that is stable, but somehow i manage to do somthing that makes said ladder come crashing down on top of me.
I liked what one of you guys said about us either bieng just diiffern't or being a mix of all the house. I think i fall in that catagory. But didn't the hat say that Hufflepuff is the house were reside the loyal and true? somthing like that anyways. So thier are traits that can get you into the house we arn't just som ehouse that gets all the people who just don't fit in. Think of Luna, i like luna acctualy. Oh well i will stop my rambling here so that i don't continue to make a fool of my self!

Come vist The Ron Weasly Is My King thread here in the lounge!

Don't want to get into a debate here (hehe thou i do like to debate...) but it is in harrys mind Dumbledores greatest weaskness but i think it is also his greatest assent and one of his streaghts. it seprates Dumbledore from Voldy, giving second chances with no repercons from Dumbledore like Voldy would. without DD'd acceptance i do not think the book would be the same. i didn't cry when sirius died but i was balling (and i don't cry for nothin) when DD died, he is the type of person you fall in love with you could say, he is a person who everyone who knows him, and isn't evil, just wants to be around, and i do not think he would be the same DD without his acceptance of everything.
Okay i am rambling lol,

*Buckbeak rules*

I agree that accseptence is a great asept of our house. we are friendly with all of the other houses. wsspecialy with the claws and griffs, mabye not so much with the slytherins but hey at least we arn't at open war with them like the griffendors. Although i still think the greatest trait of our house is that loyalty, i know i just misspelles that, I should stop now or i'm just going to embaress myself.

The power of Hufflepuff house is friendship and loyalty. We have seen the trio use this in every book so far. We also saw Cedric face an unknown foe in the graveyard to protect Harry, who was not a close friend. Dumbledore possessed this quality. I think it is funny that Harry regarded this as a weakness is Dumbledore. Admittedly, Harry felt that Dumbledore thought the weakness was in trusting TOO much.

for me loyalty is also a strength but a weakness too.i mean you can be easily decieved if you are very loyal to someone and he turns out to be a prat...everybody is loyal but i think we are extermely loyal,we(at least me personally)would die for my best friend but not without fighting!!!!i think harry thought that dumbledore trusted people so much because he hated snape and we all know that hatred can blind you(at least me,again)!

Prof. Dumbledore make give people second chances but that doesn't mean he lets them make the same mistake over again or that he can't be strict. Observe how he handled Harry when he couldn't get the memoriy from Prof. Slughorn. He certainly expected Harry to make every efford and closely reviewed his actions. Notice how he got Harry to promise to try again and to do better. He trusted that Harry's abilities would find a way and that his loyalty to Prof. Dumbledore would drive him to attempt that way.

Imagine the scene if it was Lord Voldemort and a DE. I think the Dark Lord would plan the whole thing and expect fear to drive the DE to complete the plan. One uses loyalty, the other fear and their actions are designed to instill these emotions in their followers.

As a Slytherin (and very proud of it) I have to say the Hufflepuff's have much to be proud of. They wouldn't think twice about helping someone, whereas a serpent would have to weigh the pros and cons and figure out what they could get for themselves out of it. The lion would tend to rush into things, and the eagle would survey the situation and make the best educated choice.

Now I know there are based on nothing but what the houses stand for, but if that's the case then the Hufflepuff's have nothing to be ashamed of. Cedric, a Hufflepuff was deemed worthy of the Goblet of Fire to compete in his school's honor. Harry wasn't even that lucky; he was put in as the only person from his school so he would have to win! He had no competition!

Had he gone against Cedric how would he have done? Probably not very well...Cedric also possessed the maturity and patience to go through what he did.



We saw how Professor Dumbledore could be when riled up (remember how he looked when he saw Professor Moody about to attack Harry in GoF?) and even though people are extremely loyal to him, they are that way because he is loyal to them. He leads by example and trusts people far more than they probably feel they should be.

~McK

The thing is, is that he was defending Harry. He normally gets like that around Harry and not really any other student. He might jynx that person harming the student, but Harry was definetly his favorite student. But like you said snakecharmer, Dumbledore can really get riled up.

Thanks for stating that fact snakecharmer, I didn't think of it like that. Wow I am a proud Hufflepuff now. Lol. But anyway, I don't understand what you are saying about the Triwizard Tournament. Could you maybe explain?

Barty Crouch Jr. hoodwinked the Goblet into thinking there were four schools instead of the normal three. Because of this, Harry was the only student put in the fourth school.

When the goblet shot out the name it thought was the best one, it picked Harry because he was the only choice, thus being the best one.

Does that make sense?

thank you so much for not storming my castle. I didn't realize how harsh that was until I proofread it.

~McK

Storming you castle....I had never heard those words used in that context. Yet it is fitting. I may need to start using that.

Charmer, I agree that Harry is Dumbledore's favorite student. I do not think that Dumbledore cares more for Harry than all the other students. Dumbledore knows the challenges set in Harry's futures. He grants Harry so much freedom because he needs to be trained quickly. The other students will probably never face Voldemort at the age of 17. Harry must be prepared.

But Dumbledore is no fool either. He has given Harry room to become prepared, but never so much that he was alone. Dumbledore protects Harry more than the other students because Harry is in more danger and therefore needs greater protection. I think that Dumbledore would go to any lengths to protect any student if he felt that it were necessary.

His reaction when protecting Harry from Crouch Jr at the end of Goblet was fierce, but that ferocity was needed to stop a dangerous wizard from murdering Harry. When Dumbledore stopped Umbridge from manhandling Marietta, a simple jinx was all that was needed. Marietta was in no danger. Ferocity would have been an overreaction.

Sorry that this got off the Hufflepuff topic, but I wanted to comment.

Let's hope none of them have to face Voldermort at 17 *shivers* thou Malfoy had, right?

Just out of curiosty what do you think will happen to Erine and Susan, and Hannah and all in book 7? do you think any of them will be in it?

*Buckbeak rules*

P.S. Happy birthday After the Burial

Hi to all Hufflepuffs. I have only recently been added to this house. I was glad to be sorted into this house. I think everyone wants to be in either Gryfindor or Slytherin because they are two of the most popular houses. Where as Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw just sit in the background and go about their own thing. Which sums me up.

To respond to Buckbeak rules, I don't know if JK will take the kids back to Hogwarts or not. If she doesn't we might not hear about Harry's fellow classmates again. It would be a shame as we have all grown fond of certain characters and hated some others. I hope they do finally get to go back to school, just so they can all have the thing Harry has always wanted a normal life.(Well normal as a wizard can be!)

I think the Hufflepuffs we've met will play some role in the last book, I just don't see how they couldn't. I cannot think of one character that we've been introduced to in any of the earlier books that we've not heard from recently, unless they've graduated like Gryffindor's Wood. I think they'll be back, though I kind of think that they won't all make it through. I wouldn't be surprised either way if one or more of them died or didn't. They are minor characters so it wouldn't be a huge loss to kill them off, but they're not big names in the story so it might not be worth while killing them off. I really don't know, but I'm sure we'll hear of them again.

Susan Bones might get in Book 7 especially if some of her relatives in the Ministry are attacked. Then again she might decide to fight along side the Ministry forces. I think some Hufflepuffs might want to fight but think that Harry represents a sort of unauthorized, wildcat operation. They will consider the proper approach to be cooperation with the Ministry. Most people don't have Harry's insight about the working of the Ministry. The Minister has just been elected and there will be a period where people reserve judgement.

Besides, Harry knows the people in the DA and if you're not in my now, he may not let new, untested people help him. Too much of a security risk.

Sup all HUFFLEPUFFS? I think that the Hufflepuffs will at first sit on the side lines (no im not saying that their cowards) and see which group is stronger and better equiped to fight LV . They well be divided between harry and the ministry cause both know how to fight LV but only one will truly be able to stop LV.

Firstly, Buckbeak, thanks for the comment.

I hope that both the 'lesser' houses finally receive the recognition they deserve. Given that Harry must hunt for objects from their founders (I think the unknown horcrux was Ravenclaw's), you would think that they will have a bit more prominence.

If this is true, the characters we already know should be important. I think Susan Bones has played her part. Smith though, I would not be surprised if Smith became much more important. He may be related to Hepzibah, former owner of the Cup. Also, a recurring idea is that the houses must unite to stay strong. It would make sense that Harry must unite with those he does not like in order to defeat Voldemort (Draco, Smith, unknown Ravenclaw...and for good measure, McLaggen).

After the Burial, I am in total agreement with you, but I think that only Malfoy will be the one he unites with, considering the fact that the Slytherins were the only ones that the Gryffindors were apprehensive about. I also believe that if Harry has to unite back with anyone, it will be Ginny because he loves her, well that is the impression I got.

Oh yes...he loved her so much that he was able to turn his back on her and not even think twice about looking back. He didn't. He went straight to the people he loved the most; Ron and Hermione.



I think Harry is going to be too occupied to worry about house relations. If someone comes to him with sincerity stating they want to help with the fight against Voldemort, he will utilize them anyway possible.

As for the Hufflepuff's, something one of the twins said in OotP said strikes me. They were discussing what weapon Voldemort was trying to retrieve from the MoM. Someone said it was something small and someone else shot that down quickly because it couldn't be small. Then one of the twins said, "Just because it's small doesn't mean it's not powerful; look at Ginny's bat bogey hex." or something to that nature.

The purpose to my rant (funnily enough there actually is a purpose) is that Hufflepuff's have been completely underrated. They may actually be the entire key to turning the tides of the war.



This is a very point and one I have not thought of before. I think I'm going to go back and check out these relationships again to see if I've missed something. Perhaps potential or alliance. Could be interesting.

~ McK

Even with everything that Harry has done/survived, I don't see him defeating Voldemort. Harry is not a good enough wizard to do so on his own. I think that Harry will have more help than he thinks he will have, and that it will probably come from places he does not expect it. Draco, Smith...whoever. The people themselves are not as important as the idea that everyone will unite against Voldemort.

About Ginny, I am not convinced they are in love. Harry is noble, so protecting her using distance is a noble act. I don't know if it stems from love or something else. Either way, I wish to avoid the wrath of the mods. (Their relationship is hardly a topic for the Hufflepuff House Thread....and who is the 'Head Mod' for this thread anyhow?) Come to the Gryffindor Room and we shall debate away.

I agree After the Burial, Harry/Ginny isn't a good topic for the Hufflepuff thread. However, didn't Ginny date at least one Hufflepuff? Ernie MacMillan, right? Maybe I'm confused...

No, she dated Michael Corner who was a Ravenclaw.

In case you two didn't notice, I did try to change the topic away from Harry/Ginny and onto Harry's relationships with the other houses (including Hufflepuff) while mentioning how detrimental they could be to the fight against Voldemort.

I actually did not notice. I'm one of those very rare persons who, once they get a thought in thier head, are unable to focus on anything else.

On to Hufflepuff. Where are you all gettting the Hufflepuff avatars and such? Just curious.

A site called Hufflepuff Pride is where i found my avatar, thou i am planning on changing my sig one to a puff one again.

Heres the link if you want Hufflepuff Pride and it has alot of other information on it about us!!! I love the site.

*Buckbeak rules*
P.S. check out the new sig

wooow you've got tons of hufflepuff avatars!!
i was sorted into hufflepuff by the sorting hat thread - i didn't realise there was a actual hufflepuff thread!
Well anyway just saying hi
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Charmer, I am all for changing the topic to anything you would like. On your particular topic, I had no coherent thoughts. I know that I have a tendency to ramble a bit, so I try to avoid doing so when I know that I have no chance of making sense.

Personal thoughts about other comments: that is a lot of Hufflepuff Avatars, welcome to the thread and Ernie is my favorite Puff.

Haha, glad you like my avatars (well the ones i got of Hufflepuff Pride, not mine) there is a few sigs and all but i didn't feel like it thou the support cedric badges.

So trying to think of a topic all of us and talk about and i was wondering about this: Will we learn more about the founders in the 7? because we know Voldly holds them in high esteem, so we have to learn something. Right? oh and if so, what?

*Buckbeak rules*
haha i am going to get rid of a few (avatars) for something else

personally i think that in book seven we will learn a lot more about the founders and there is another reason except for voldy...hermione(!!!).i mean she is always bickering about them isn't she???(oh,my god i just sounded like ron!)
we will learn about their relationships,wands,personallity...and i can't think of anything else!!!!!

Sorry but I can't agree with this because Harry will be caught up trying to find Horcruxes and the only thing he needs to learn about is Ravenclaw because Harry already knows what the Horcruxes are for the other two houses. I think we will learn more about Ravenclaw.

Ok back to hufflepuff. I think it is cool to be in Hufflepuff! I thought i would be in Ravenclaw! I seriously didn't want to be in Slytherin... That would be really awful. I hate Draco!

While I hope that we'll learn more about all the different houses and founders in the final book, I seriously doubt that we will learn much more than we already know. I think a bit more is possible what with the search for the horcruxes and all that, but otherwise I figure the book will be Harry/Gryffindor centered with Slytherin being runners up.