Hufflepuff

> You might belong in Hufflepuff,
> Where they are just and loyal,
> Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
> And unafraid of toil.
>
> ***Sorting Hat***, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

**Hufflepuff** was one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the ***Middle Ages|medieval*** witch ***Helga Hufflepuff***. Hufflepuff was the most inclusive among the four houses, valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members.Template:Hogwarts'-HouseThe emblematic animal was a ***badger***, and Template:W and Template:W were its house colours. The Head of Hufflepuff was Pomona Sprout, and the ***Fat Friar*** was the House's patron ghost.

Hufflepuff corresponded roughly to the element of Template:W, and it was for that reason that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff--point hourglass contained yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrated strong abilities in ***Herbology***, owing to their correspondence to earth.

## Traits

 File:Wallofportraits2.jpg  Students belonging to this house were known to be hard-working, friendly, loyal, honest and rather impartial. It might be that due to their values, Hufflepuffs were not as competitive as the other houses, and were more modest about their accomplishments. Hufflepuff was the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its students.

Hufflepuffs were known to have a strong moral code, and a sense of right and wrong. Hufflepuffs were usually accepting of everyone. Students in Hufflepuff were known to value everyone and treat them as equal.

Hufflepuff appeared to have the least rivalry with the other houses, except in ***Quidditch***, although the ***Triwizard Tournament*** did temporarily put a great deal of strain on the relationship between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, due to unusual circumstances of the selection of both Gryffindor student Harry Potter and Hufflepuff student ***Cedric Diggory*** as champions. This was mended by 1998, where a majority of Hufflepuffs rose to defend Harry from ***Pansy Parkinson*** and later helped to defend Hogwarts.

## Reputation

> Everyone says Hufflepuff are a lot o' duffers,
>
> Wizarding opinion of the House, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

 File:Badger.jpg  According to Minerva McGonagall, all four of the houses produced exceptional witches and wizards in their time, but due to ***Helga Hufflepuff'***s policy of accepting any student Hufflepuff is often thought to be the house of less talented wizards and witches. However, this was merely a misunderstanding of the ***Sorting Hat***'s poem.

The Hufflepuff house had produced a great number of wizards and witches who would go on to be extremely successful and have great influence upon the history and course of the wizarding world, examples of such individuals including the famous ***Magizoologist*** ***Newton Scamander*** (a pioneer in the field of Magizoology), ***Arithmancer*** ***Bridget Wenlock*** (who discovered the magical properties of the number seven), ***Hengist of Woodcroft*** (founder of the all-wizard village of ***Hogsmeade***) and former ***Minister for Magic*** ***Artemisia Lufkin*** (who was the first woman to hold the office and established the ***Department of International Magical Co-operation***).

What made Hufflepuff differ from the other houses was the fact that they didn't tend to boast about these accomplishments. It was not considered to be part of their nature.

 File:Fat Friar Profile.png  Hufflepuff was the house that produced the fewest Dark wizards throughout its history. Their cheerful and friendly demeanour could probably account for this achievement of the House. Hufflepuff firmly demonstrated its loyalty during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when they were second only to Harry Potter's own house of Gryffindor in the number of students willing to stay and fight against Voldemort and his forces in the defence of their school.

Hufflepuff's nature and reputation was perhaps best exemplified by its mascot, the badger. Though a quiet and largely unassuming creature that most perceive to be harmless, the badger can be surprisingly vicious if provoked and capable of fighting off animals many times its size, especially if there is a threat to what it cares about. Their capacity to be far more dangerous and cunning than their reputation would suggest, was also shown by the fact that of the four house common rooms, theirs was the only one that possessed an active defence mechanism against those who would try to seek unauthorised entry.

## Common Room

Main articles: Hufflepuff Basement and Hufflepuff common room
 File:Hufflepuff common room.jpg  The Hufflepuff dormitories and common room were never been seen by outsiders and was the only house with repelling devices in case of intruders. They were accessed through a pile of large barrels, found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on a right-hand side corridor near the kitchens. The barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, would open if tapped in the rhythm of "Helga Hufflepuff".

As a security device to repel non-Hufflepuff students, tapping on the wrong barrel, or tapping the incorrect number of times, resulted in one of the other lids bursting off, drenching the impostor in vinegar.

However, once one made it through the tunnel entryway, the Hufflepuff dormitory was a quite cosy and welcoming place; it always felt sunny. The common room was a large, earthy, round room with low ceilings. The view from the round windows was of dandelions and rippling grass.

The decor emphasised the earthy-feel of the room with plants hanging and resting all about the room, some that even sung and danced. Burnished copper touchings with plush, cosy yellow and black patterned sofas and chairs welcomed Hufflepuff students to relax and discuss the interesting specimens brought in by the Head of House, Professor Sprout. A Hufflepuff student retired through big, round doors in the walls of the common room to their dormitory.

## Head of House

Founders Hufflepuff.jpgHelga Hufflepuff
(10th century)Pomona Sprout-With wand.jpgPomona SproutThe Hufflepuff's Head of House before and during Harry Potter's time was Pomona Sprout. She was the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

## See also

* Helga Hufflepuff
* An Helga-Hufflepuff's Cup
* Hufflepuff Quidditch Team
* Hufflepuff Basement
* Gryffindor
* Ravenclaw
* Slytherin

## Behind the scenes

**@privetdrivex**: "*Joanne, there are people who have a certain prejudice against Hufflepuff. What do you think about this?*"
**@jk\_rowling**: "*They do not understand the special mystique of the badger. Do not hate them - pity them.*"
— J. K. Rowling responds to a fan's comments on Hufflepuff on Twitter.
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* In J. K. Rowling's earliest concepts for the series, Hufflepuff's mascot was a ***bear*** rather than a badger.
* Hufflepuff has produced the fewest Dark wizards of all the four Houses.
* Gabriel Truman states that Hufflepuffs are often good at Herbology, likely stemming from their house element of earth.
	+ Interestingly, Neville Longbottom, known to excel at Herbology, was placed in Gryffindor, despite begging the Sorting Hat to place him in Hufflepuff.
* The Hufflepuff Entire Basement was the only common room that Harry Potter didn't enter during his years at Hogwarts.
* On *Harry Potter: Beyond the Page*, J. K. Rowling had this to say about Hufflepuff House; *"This may surprise people, but it is the truth...In many, many ways, Hufflepuff is my favourite House. Here's my reasoning, bear with me. (Again, I don't want to spoil things too much for people who haven't read the whole series, so I'm going to say what I'm about to say quite carefully). There comes a point in the* **Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows** *where each House has the choice whether or not to rise to a certain challenge, and that's everyone in the House. The Slytherins, for reasons that are understandable, decide they'd rather not play. The Ravenclaws, some decide they will, some decide they won't. The Hufflepuffs, virtually to a person, stay, as do the Gryffindors. Now, the Gryffindors comprise a lot of foolhardy and show-offy people, that's just the way it is, I'm a Gryffindor, I'm allowed to say it. You know, there's bravery, and there's also showboating, and sometimes the two go together. The Hufflepuffs stayed for a different reason; they weren't trying to show off, they weren't being reckless, that's the essence of Hufflepuff House. Now my oldest child (my daughter, Jessica) said something very profound to me, not very many days ago, actually, she said to me --and she, by the way, was not sorted into Hufflepuff House-- but, she said to me, 'I think we should all* want *to be Hufflepuffs.' I can only say to you, that I would not be* at all *disappointed to be sorted into Hufflepuff House.*"
* Hufflepuff House won the fourth and eighth House Cups on *Pottermore*.
* The fact that Hufflepuff's secondary colour is black and emblematic of the soil is symbolic of the fact that unlike the other three houses whose secondary colours are those of precious metals, Hufflepuff house is humble, down-to-earth, and enduring, unlike gold, silver, and bronze, which are soft metals that are easily broken or warped. It shows the Hufflepuff house's ability to act as a shield, protecting the precious metals, which in this analogy are the other houses' students, and serves as the humble foundations of their unified strength.
* Hufflepuff is the only house which Harry and Ginny did not name any of their children after a member of.
* Hufflepuff's Entire house ghost, the Fat Friar, is the only house ghost to not have a significant role in the plot of the series.
* Hufflepuff was the only Hogwarts house that was never mentioned once in a chapter title in any of the seven books.

### Translations

In translated editions, "Hufflepuff" remains the same and is used for the Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Faroese, German, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese editions. The following translations have changed the name:

* Albanian: *Baldozkuqi*
* Bulgarian: *Хафълпаф (Hafălpaf)*
* Chinese (Simplified): *赫奇帕奇 (Hèqípàqí)* (phonetic)
* Chinese (Traditional): *赫夫帕夫 (Hèfupàfu)* (phonetic)
* Czech: *Mrzimor*
* Dutch: *Huffelpuf*
* French: *Poufsouffle*
* Finnish: *Puuskupuh* (onomatopoeic)
* Georgian: *ჰაფლპაფი*
* Greek, Modern: *Χάφλπαφλ (Háflpafl)* (the translator mistakenly added an "l" (greek letter "λ") in the end)
* Hebrew: *הפלפאף*
* Hindi: *मेहनतकश (Mēhanatakaś)* ("Hardworking")
* Hungarian: *Hugrabug*
* Icelandic: *Huffelpuff*
* Italian: *Tassorosso* ("Redbadger" in the movies); *Tassofrasso* (in the books and games; "frasso" doesn't have a meaning, it's used as a way to rhyme with "tasso" (Badger))
* Japanese: *ハッフルパフ (Haffurupafu)*
* Korean: *후플푸프 (Hupŭlpupŭ)*
* Latvian: *Elšpūtis*
* Lithuanian: *Švilpynė*
* Norwegian: *Håsblås*
* Persian: *هافلپاف*
* Polish: *Hufflepuff* (But the inhabitants are called *Puchoni*; puch = puff, feather)
* Portuguese (Brazil): *Lufa-Lufa* (onomatopoeia for a person making a hard effort - like this house's students)
* Romanian: *Astropuf* ("astronomical puffs")
* Russian: *Пуффендуй (Puffenduĭ)*
* Serbian: *Хафлпаф (Haflpaf)*
* Slovak: *Bifľomor* ("Swots")
* Slovenian: *Pihpuff* (note: in book 6 the new transator changed it to *Pihpuf*)
* Thai: *ฮัฟเฟิลพัฟ*
* Ukrainian: *Гафелпаф (Gafelpaf)*
* Welsh: *Wfftitwff* (onomatopoeic)
* Vietnamese: *Nhà Hufflepuff* ("House Hufflepuff")

## Appearances

* *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film) (First Known Appearance)
* *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (film)
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1*
* *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 5
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 9
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8. ↑ The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire
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18. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 8
19. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 6
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21. ↑ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - with annotations, *The Guardian*
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