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"Hufflepuff" and "Ravenclaw" are school Houses of Hogwarts, a school in the Harry Potter franchise. Pottermore is a Harry Potter website that had a quiz allowing you to see which House you were. Tycho got Hufflepuff on taking the quiz, but he told people (like Charles, as seen here in flashback) that he got Ravenclaw. (Ravenclaw is the house for intelligent people, whereas Hufflepuff is the house for everyone who doesn't fit one of the other three).
He hasn't been in a comic in what, half a decade if not more?
I mean, I'm super glad I'm in Ravenclaw, but if I got sorted into Hufflepuff I suppose I wouldn't've immediately drowned myself.
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well shit, you're right.
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Understandable, the Herbology professor (Pomono Sprout) is a Hufflepuff.
Other notable members: Nymphadora Tonks, Cederic Diggory, and Newt Scamander.
Granted, it's not on the level of, say, Divergent. "All the other kids can be categorized by exactly one personality trait. But a select few (including every single reader of the series) have the unique quality of being TWO THINGS AT ONCE!"
Or the Hero/Sidekick division from the movie Sky High. All they do is create a bitter underclass who resents society but the school refuses to change because the Hero class see no problem with the tradition even though it's a breeding ground for supervillains.
I'd rather have been Hufflepuff.
It's the house that doesn't let their intellect, bravery or ambition define them, and as such are more resistant to succumbing to those attributes in the manner of a Greek tragedy.
Hold up.
Is this a thing that was revealed on Pottermore? Or am I forgetting some part of the books?
I'm not saying the Divergent books succeeded, but they did explain that people in it are the descendants of a genetic engineering experiment that essentially made them all brain damaged. Their ridiculous society is a second experiment designed to reverse that damage and produce healthy offspring who can then be reintegrated into the outer society.
The problem was the three-book structure that didn't reveal any of that until the third book. If it had been a single book then it would have worked better.
How to be a Hufflepuff:
How to be a Ravenclaw:
How to be a Slytherin:
No Gryffindor yet, but I'm hoping it'll be a good'un.
That's actually kind of interesting and I wish that had been in from the beginning (or the first movie, which I watched and then had little desire to read the book).
If the setting had seemed really off, than that reveal at the end would be a pretty cool explanation: like the whole series was like a Twilight Zone episode where you are waiting for the explanation.
But the trouble is that it wasn't all that different from most YA books in that aspect of the premise, so I think most people assumed the people were all one-note because that's what characters in YA look like. It just seemed like a metaphor for how kids see high school: everyone is mindless clique automatons and I'm not accepted in a clique because I'm the only free thinker.
[Grumpy old man] It does seem like today's YA books have a habit of building their worlds to cater to how teens see the world rather than meeting teens where they are and teaching them about adulthood. Narnia and The Dark is Rising seemed more inclined to write realistic teen characters, with their incomplete understanding of the world, and proceed to use the story to teach them a more mature outlook. Though I'm sure there's good stuff out there today. I found the characters in Hunger Games somewhat realistic, if almost exclusively unlikable. But most of the rest of YA I've been exposed to lately seems less written for teens, and more written by teens. [/Grumpy old man]
I don't recall either fact being in the books, so probably Pottermore.
Slytherin lore is actually pretty interesting because Pottermore reveals that they're not actually all about blood purity (in fact, there are loads of half-blood and Muggle-born Slythies) or even about the Dark Arts. Their defining trait is ambition, but it goes more to it than that. More than even the Hufflepuffs, Slytherin are the outcasts. The Slytherin welcome infodump basically boils down to 'Everyone's going to hate you anyway, so just own the label.' And while everyone's writing you off as a wannabe death eater, focus on your own success and just win. And this attitude works amazingly well when you think about it; in the years before Sorcerer's Stone Slytherin are dominating all the inter-house competitions; they have the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup and have had them both for several years running.
I'm just saying, Tyrion Lannister would be a Slytherin.
Oh, I'm totally Hufflepuff.
Granted when I did the pottermore quiz and was sorted into Hufflepuff I was as disappointed as anyone would be. I, like Tycho, told everyone I was a Ravenclaw, because they're smart, and people told me I was smart, so it made sense. Plus they've got CLAW in their name, super badass.
But recently I rethought my househate. As YoungFrey said earlier, Hufflepuff has had a bunch of dope witches and wizards, not least amongst them Tonks, Sprout and Newt Scamander (and also Artemisia Lufkin, the first female Minister for Magic). They're also generally tolerant, honest, hard-working and morally-driven folk. And their common room is right next to the kitchens, super comfortable (looking at you, Slytherin's hard wood chairs) and full of burnished copper and afternoon sun. It's also the only common room with an actual defense mechanism.
But none of that is why I'm happy to be a Hufflepuff.
I'm satisfied with my sorting because I keep imagining Helga Huffelpuff's shocked and betrayed face when she gets together with her three best friends to found a school to teach all the young witches and wizards of Britain, only to watch them be weirdly selective about who they want to teach: "oh just the very bravest for me!" "I'm only teaching those who fulfill my arbitrary notion of 'smart'" "I'll take the cunning, and preferably not those of mixed-race."
I imagine Helga looking around at these three smug motherfuckers like an angry Molly Weasley and being all "all right you racist pieces of shit, I'll take all the children that don't fit into one of your weird little boxes and, idk, just want to learn magic. And we're going to be next to the kitchens."
Hufflepuff forever, equality for all.
Not much winning happening in my life. I am definitely a Hufflepuff. ;-) (Alright, yes, Hufflepuff had enough awesome people in it for that not to be a thing, I jest!)
I should go through Pottermore at some point. You've piqued my interest.
Yeah, I was gonna say (in response to the reveal, which I admit is the first I've heard of it as well), "we call that brain-damaging environment 'high school'. And the cure for it, for most people, is... leaving high school."
The thing is, it's very difficult to convince most teens how little these particular four years will matter later on, and how petty and trivial all their adolescent drama is. They're surrounded by it every day, it defines their lives, and for most, it's something like a third of their consciously remembered lifetimes. So one has a choice of either trying to give them that context, that many can't or won't accept because they're not ready for it, or just throw up one's hands and give them what they want, which is validating their skewed and limited worldview.
Out of curiosity, do the other schools have houses? If so, what are they? I know Hogwarts isn't the worlds-only magic school in the setting.
For the rest of the summer I waa inundated with Instinct and/or Hufflepuff memes. This one still gets shared:
The only other schools that appear in the series are Beauxbaton in France, and Durmstrang, which is in a secret location somewhere in northern Europe, and they're not shown in enough detail to see if there are any houses. At any rate, all the students wear the same uniforms. There's others too but they're not named and none of the students ever appear.
EDIT: It's there now, but marked to 12 hours ago. Maybe it didn't get made public.
Reading on Wizarding Schools (there are many) on Pottermore, in the descriptions of the other schools, the North American one (Ilvermorny) has 4 houses too (they were inspired by Hogwarts): Horned Serpent, Wampus, Thunderbird, and Pukwudgie. There is a sorting quiz.
*Fires wand wildly in the air*
I've noticed that child actors who played chubby or dorky characters tend to work like hell to cast off that image as they grow up. Look at that kid who played Urkel or the one who played Chunk now.
And re-doing the Hogwarts test gives me Slytherin again? That's really weird. I definitely feel like I'm more Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.
Also, these tests are much better than I remember the previous official ones being. Much less transparent or game-able. Had to create an account for Pottermore, dunno when they changed all that.
Edit: wow, there's even patronus and wand tests now? They should just straight-up make a pen and paper RPG if they're gonna go so in-depth with char-gen stuff. Got Grey squirrel for patronus, which, we've always had a lot near where I grew up, and where I live now, and I like them. Not my first choice (would've preferred something cooler, but could be worse). My wand is Alder wood, Unicorn hair core, 14 ½" in length, "Surprisingly Swishy flexibility", which leads to some interesting text on the "about my wand" page (alder wood is good for non-verbal casting, unicorn hair for consistency in results and being difficult to steal/take, which sounds like a strong combo).
According to the Pottermore short blurbs on them: Wampus would be more Hufflepuff, probably. "Argumentative, but fiercely loyal" (the latter being one of the big traits for Hufflepuff) (fun fact: the earliest mascot for Hufflepuff was a bear, but badgers are cooler anyways.)
Incidentally I got Ravenclaw/Thunderbird, but I would take Hufflepuff over basically the rest of the houses tbh. Not just because they've got Newt and Tonks... They've also produced the least dark wizards of any of the houses and had the second most members stay in the Battle of Hogwarts (behind Griffindor)