Elan Langly/Tropes

* Nature Lover
* Call to Agriculture
* Grass is Greener
* Earthy Barefoot Character
* In Harmony with Nature

## Hufflepuff

* Always Lawful Good: While Gryffindor House is the "hero" house, Hufflepuff House is a more literal example of this trope, being the *most consistently* lawful and good of the houses. They are defined by their loyalty and integrity and have produced the least amount of Dark Wizards/Witches of all the Hogwarts houses.
* Always Second Best: They are aware of Hufflepuff's reputation as an overshadowed house and they hoped the Tri-Wizard tournament would be their time to outshine Gryffindor.
* And the Rest: Although usually said to be chosen for loyalty and hard work, one of the Sorting Hat songs describes Helga Hufflepuff as "tak[ing] all the rest, and treat[ing] them all the same," demonstrating the most frequently mentioned defining traits of the House; fairness and equality. Of course, many people take it to mean that Hufflepuff is just a dumping ground for students none of the other Founders would deem "worthy".
* Animal Motifs: Badgers are adorable, unassuming, and will rip your face off if you threaten something they care about, which sums the House up quite neatly.
* Bad Ol' Badger: Double subverted—badgers are the house's mascot and this partially does symbolize Hufflepuff's friendliness... however, both Hufflepuffs and badgers can be downright vicious if you do anything to hurt their loved ones...
* Beware the Nice Ones: They spend the whole series just hanging out and being generally inoffensive... until the school is attacked in the final battle and all but the youngest and Zacharias Smith take up their wands and fight without hesitation.
* The Big Guy: After Gryffindor, Hufflepuff contributed the most student combatants to the Battle of Hogwarts.
* Butt-Monkey: Hufflepuff is definitely the most maligned and mocked house in the fandom as well as canon. Hagrid tells us the first thing we ever hear about Hufflepuff, which is "everyone says Hufflepuff are a load o' duffers," although it's not made clear whether or not he actually agrees with this assessment. In any case, the books imply (and demonstrate) many times that Hufflepuff doesn't deserve its in-universe reputation as the house of weak-willed idiots. If anything, as mentioned below, Hufflepuff is strongly associated with *loyalty* and *determination*.
* Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their heraldic colours are yellow and black, representing wheat and soil respectively.
* Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Do not anger the Hufflepuffs. Proof positive — the Hufflepuff common room door is the only one guarded by a non-verbal password, and if you get it wrong, the door squirts vinegar all over the offender. In point of fact, the Hufflepuff door has had the same password forever—it doesn't change like the others. It's also the only common room not entered by non-Hufflepuffs in the last thousand years.
* Cynic–Idealist Duo: The Idealists to Ravenclaws Cynics. Perhaps even more Idealistic than Gryffindor, Hufflepuffs pretty much see the good in everyone (at first). Since they value kindness, it's hard not to see them as warm, welcoming individuals. Most Hufflepuffs aren't out for glory or power, but if you think this makes them pushovers? You'll be sorely mistaken.
* Determinator: The House that contributes the most fighters to Hogwarts at the end of the seventh book (after Gryffindor). Loyalty is one of their defining traits.
* Fatal Flaw: Hufflepuffs tend to be too trusting and nice for their own good, leading them to be easily manipulated, and their strong sense of humility leads to them being easily overlooked.
* Four-Element Ensemble: Represents Earth among the four Houses, reflected in their most prominent staff member, Pomona Sprout, who works with magical plants, and their common room, located in the basements.
* The Generic Guy: Their one moment of glory was when Cedric Diggory was chosen as the Triwizard contestant for Hogwarts, which was soon overshadowed by Harry becoming the other contestant for Hogwarts.
* Hard Work Hardly Works:
	+ In-universe example, as Hufflepuff House rarely shines compared to the other Houses (noted in *Goblet of Fire*), despite being the house that hard work is associated with.
	+ It seems like the difference between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff is supposed to be the one between gazelles and warthogs. Academically, Hufflepuff students keep plugging at things till they get them and do good studious groundwork. Ravenclaws, on the other hand, would excel at their talents while neglecting fields that don't interest them and make breakthroughs that are possible because of the good groundwork in question. It is entirely possible that while the Gryffindors, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws are highly visible, it is the Hufflepuffs who make that visibility possible.
* Hidden Disdain Reveal: In *Goblet of Fire*, the house was usually civil towards Gryffindor but when Harry was chosen as the second champion of Hogwarts, they became cold and dismissive towards the entire Gryffindor house because they felt besmirched by Harry's legacy. The Tri-Wizard tournament was supposed to be their time to shine but Harry unwittingly stole their glory due to his status as the chosen one and it wasn't helped when Rita Skeeter stated that Harry was the only champion of Hogwarts in her papers.
* Hufflepuff House: Trope Namer. Hufflepuff is first brought up to be made fun of, and no major student is a Hufflepuff, except Cedric Diggory, who dies in the second book he appears in. Their most prominent alumni, Nymphadora Tonks and Newt Scamander, were only revealed to be members through supplementary material.
* Humble Hero: A self-admitted trait on Pottermore—they *do* have plenty of accomplishments to their name, they just don't go around bragging about it like the other three Houses do. Unfortunately, this is also one of the reasons they're so frequently overlooked.
* Jack-of-All-Trades: Although they are mocked in-universe for being the "throwaway" house, one of their greatest qualities is that they value and/or demonstrate the qualities the other three houses value equally, along with a helping of determination and hard work.
* Nice Guy: Being kind to a fault seems to be a thing with them. They're so nice, in fact, that one of their greatest accomplishments is said to be that they've produced the *fewest* dark wizards/witches of any Hogwarts House. Indeed, not even a single villain in the series has been confirmed to be a Hufflepuff (Peter Pettigrew and Quirinus Quirrel are a villainous Gryffindor and Ravenclaw respectively, but no one in Voldemort's ranks has ever been confirmed to be in Hufflepuff). The closest that a Hufflepuff becomes a villain occurs in *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, where Cedric Diggory was made Voldemort's right-hand man in an alternate universe, upon feeling disaffected by the outcome of the Triwizard Tournament.
* The Reliable One: As noted above, they made up most of the student fighters in the seventh book aside from the Gryffindors.
* Throw the Dog a Bone:
	+ The franchise does this for Hufflepuff by featuring former Hufflepuff Newt Scamander as the protagonist of the *Fantastic Beasts* series. For bonus points, Scamander was previously expelled from Hogwarts but still went on to live a successful life, even achieving fame.
	+ The house managed to snag a real-world victory by winning Pottermore's final House Cup before the feature was removed from the site indefinitely. The best part? Gryffindor came in *dead last*.
* Undying Loyalty: The primary defining trait of Hufflepuff. JK Rowling herself has said that while more of the Gryffindors remained behind, for a lot of them it was simply because they wanted to *fight*, whether because they thought running away would be cowardly or for revenge. For the Hufflepuffs who remained behind, she says it was universally "something deeper".
* Yellow Earth, Green Earth: As an Elemental Motif, Hufflepuff corresponds to Earth — its house colours are yellow and black, representing wheat and soil, and the house is known for its hard workers. (Here's a citation for that.)