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4:16pm July 23, 2014
Anonymous asked: We do see Hufflepuffs bully Harry in CoS and GoF. In both cases, they gang up on him when they believe he has done something morally corrupt(kill students/enter the Triwizard Tournament by cheating). It's notable that they never try to beat him up but rather make him feel isolated.

Yeah I vaguely remember that.  It felt like Hufflepuffs banding together to defend their own, kind of thing.  And yes, isolating him.  To the average Hufflepuff, isolation would be the worst thing.

But I think a real Hufflepuff bully – someone who habitually bullied, not just in response to a moral situation – would look different than that, and someone else gave some good examples of how it would look.  I still need to write my own post on bullying by house because mine would differ somewhat from theirs, but they were right on about Hufflepuffs.

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