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Originally Posted by Davy_Mcwrecker
@MTN's Post - Ijust never really liked Hufflepuff. They never really had a story purposs (SP? MS Word didnt help) other than being that 4th house. Griffindor were the good guys, Slytherin were the bad guys, and Ravenclaw was very helpful and eventful in the last book or two. Other than Diggory, there was no MAJOR plot character as there were in the other 3 houses. I was basing that on my opinion on the movies/books. Not the game.
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I'm sure I've mentioned this somewhere before, either in-game or in this thread, but stereotyping people isn't a good thing.
A lot (note that I said "a lot," not "all." I'm aware that there are nice Gryffindors) of Gryffindor students have proven to be rude and willing to cheat to win the House Cup, because they think, since Gryffindor won the House Cup multiple times in the books, they deserve to win every Pottermore House Cup. Slytherin, on the other hand -- even though we do have a few
certain bad seeds that have been giving our House an awful reputation -- has a good amount of nice, encouraging, helpful people. Essentially, Gryffindor isn't exactly full of good, chivalrous people as the books have suggested; nor is Slytherin full of evil, conniving students.
Unfortunately if you scroll through the comments in Chapter 7, you'll occasionally see someone who is severely disappointed in being placed in Slytherin or Hufflepuff. They think they're going into an evil House full of rude, evil students; or that their House is full of losers. Ravenclaw and Gryffindor are the most desired Houses, and Slytherin and Hufflepuff are the least desired. And all of this is, unfortunately, due to stereotyping.
And yes, I am mostly basing this on "the game." But Pottermore is a canonical part of the Harry Potter universe, so just because we have "real" students doesn't mean that its credibility should be completely discarded.
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In other news, the first four Chamber of Secrets chapters are now available to Slytherins. I was a bit bummed out when I saw that it was just four, but now that I've collected four new potion ingredients already (and I'm still in Chapter 1), I like it. It's fun to be exploring again. And I can't wait to start brewing new potions.
I'll add a list of the potion ingredients that can be found in both books, and where they can be found, to the original post when I'm done.