3:14am June 29, 2014

things about Hufflepuffs #364

thingsabouthufflepuffs:

Hufflepuffs tend to help their Slytherin friends be more comfortable with physical affection. They especially like to hug their Slythie friends for slightly longer than the snake would like. The Slytherins get used to it, but seeing them just a tad bit uncomfortable at first often makes the badgers smile.

This isn’t actually a good thing, at all.

But it seems like the kind of mistake a lot of Hufflepuffs probably make.

Holy crap yeah it’s a little creepy, honestly. But yes, it’s a very Hufflepuff mistake. Especially that they’d think this was “helping”. Eurrgh.

On a side note…

For some reason… when the “things about Hufflepuffs” thing first came out, most of the submissions were things that even if they weren’t exactly me, I could relate to them. And then somewhere along the way, they all became things about being a rampant extrovert who loves parties and hugs and doing things together all the time, and I stopped identifying with much about them at all. I don’t know what’s changed exactly, other than that maybe everyone submitting stuff is following each other’s lead.

I miss stuff I could identify with, though.

I’m a highly introverted Hufflepuff. And I’m still as Hufflepuff as it’s possible to get. I still have all the same values and traits as any Hufflepuff out there (even the ones that can be bad, like excessive loyalty), I just really like my space and prefer to be alone a lot of the time. I love people, I absolutely love people, but I don’t love socializing in large groups, and sometimes I don’t want to socialize at all.

I’m the sort of Hufflepuff who would go around the castle making clue hunts for other people to follow, and leaving little presents for random people to find in strange locations. But who would hide in my dorm room if there was a party in the common room, which everyone lately seems to be saying would be happening all the time, which would be seriously unpleasant for me because I like our common room and would love to spend time there without lots of parties going on constantly.

I’d love to see more introverted Hufflepuff headcanons, autistic Hufflepuff headcanons, etc.