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Did I forget to mention a very key trait of Hufflepuff is defensiveness? My bad.
Really the most important thing about all this is the stereotyping, because really, it's rampant in the Harry Potter fandom. Honestly, it's nothing really against you personally, but more the idea that you seem to support; that Hufflepuff is somehow less because you see nothing significant about them, when in fact (as can be shown from above from Kyle and Savvy's arguments), there's a lot of significance. The fact of the matter is, Hufflepuff has had a bad rep ever since the very first book, when Draco Malfoy (Draco Malfoy, the bad guy back then), said it would be horrible to be placed in Hufflepuff, and the idea just spread from there, no matter how much Hagrid refuted it, no matter the sacrifice of Cedric Diggory, no matter the happiness and joy Tonks brought. It's the stereotype that still stays, even after Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape are no longer the bad guys, after Slytherin is seen to have good characters, after seeing Marietta Edgecombe rat out the DA, after seeing Peter Pettigrew become a coward and turn on his friends. After all of this, Hufflepuffs are still looked upon as lower, when JK Rowling presented to us many instances that shows they shouldn't be.
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