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1:57am August 23, 2014
Anonymous asked: For the anon who asked puff/ravens relationships: One of my best friends is a Ravenclaw. We’ve known each other for years and we usually go along very well! She showed me a lot of books I didn’t know about and we can talk about so many subjects, but sometimes she acts a bit selfish, too competitive and overly dramatic, especially if it has to do with school stuff… It kinda annoys me sometimes, but I know she’s a good person, so it’s not so hard to see past that. Oh, and I love your blog!

thingsabouthufflepuffs:

Thanks!

Okay so… I’m a Hufflepuff and my closest friend is a Ravenclaw.

Although honestly, she’s a Ravenpuff.  A Ravenclaw with strong Hufflepuff tendencies.  And I’m a Hufflepuff with strong Gryffindor tendencies.  So we’re not a “pure” Hufflepuff or a “pure” Ravenclaw.

The interesting thing about all this, is that the two of us are almost identical in most respects.  Our minds work the same way, to the point where we are able to almost communicate telepathically, if such a thing were possible.  We have had the same interests in life at the same ages since long before we ever met each other.  Our friends joke that we are alternate-universe versions of each other.

But somehow, she has a bit more Ravenclaw in her.  I have a little Ravenclaw, but not a lot.  And I have a bit more Hufflepuff in me.  She says she’s Ravenclaw in the same way that Luna Lovegood is Ravenclaw, and expects she would be treated the way Luna is, if she were really in Ravenclaw.  :-/  My mother has told me I was a lot like Luna as a teenager, too.  I was very eccentric and wore strange clothing and said things that made no sense a lot, and people often thought I was doing drugs.   I tried to believe in things that were impossible, too.  In my case I was trying to escape some bad things that were happening to me in the real world, and when those things stopped happening, I stopped trying to escape reality so hard.

Anyway… I don’t know quite what to say about my relationship with my Ravenclaw friend, because in aspects besides House we are so close to identical.  I think she has more of the capacity to sustain her intellect than I do, and she ended up with a job as an engineer, and she made it through college – all things I didn’t manage.  But she only made it by the skin of her teeth, so there’s that, too.  She has a lot of trouble maintaining employment because it’s so hard to do that much intellectual work all at a time.

She also has the ability to make almost anything – whether it’s wood carving, painting, or more technical pursuits, she can make all kinds of amazing things, often on her first try.  Like the kind of things where people don’t believe something is the first dress she ever sewed because it’s that good.

I have some tendencies like that, but not as many or as extreme.

For me, what always comes first, what makes me a Puff, is caring about other human beings.  I may not have the best social skills, I’m introverted, I don’t fit the stereotype of a Puff in many ways any more than my friend fits the stereotype of a Claw.  But I care deeply about people, about ethics, about doing the right thing, I’m a hard worker whether I’m good at something or not I put in my fair share of effort, I care a lot about fairness and justice.  I’m very loyal, even though I don’t always consider that a good quality.  I am sometimes too loyal to my friends, wanting to protect them even when they’ve done something wrong.  But that’s a Puff trait even when it’s bad.

I think my friend is slightly more cerebral than I am.  We both have a strong gut instinct (or “Sensing” as it’s called in the autism world), but she has more ability to maintain intellect than I do.  We don’t know why this difference between us exists, but it seems to.  I’m getting better with my intellect (I’ve been developing it on purpose because of some recent brain damage), but it hasn’t been my strongest suit in awhile.

Anyway, I don’t know if this sheds any light on anything.  But we are great friends, very close friends, and our friends see us almost like identical twins separated at birth.  So we’re that similar, and yet we’re in different Houses due to the slight differences that exist between us.