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[ledbylove]

I really want to know where it states In canon that Hufflepuffs are mothering and family oriented. And nice.

Zacharias Smith was a Hufflepuff. He was also an asshole. The only Hufflepuff we ever saw who was a mother was Tonks and we didn't really get much first hand knowledge of her in that mother role. The most prominently featured family oriented

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[reina_ursa]

I'm supposed to be on Hiatus but I had to check LJ this morning and want to comment on this.

Some of the things I saw in the HIH cheatsheet for canon traits for each house, I definitely don't agree with. They like to say Slytherins are subtle, but if memory serves, that is not said in canon ANYWHERE. I'm certainly not nor was Bella or Draco and they were Slytherin.

I think HIH just has their own guide really and that's all there is to it. I believe I've even heard someone say Hufflepuffs were associated with eating/food but that's not in canon either.

[sanalith]

I think the food association comes from their Puff CR being right next to the kitchens, though it's not like we see them stuffing their faces in the books. They just have the easiest access lol!

[reina_ursa]

That could be why, but yeah...like you said, it's not like they're scarfing down food constantly - any more than anyone else, really. I think it's really just an assumption.

[bookishgeek]

I agree with this - I think HiH's canon is different from the "real" canon, by a long shot. Real canon does not necessarily support Gryffindor as being full of CAPSLOCK and sparkles and loud and impulsive - you don't have to look any farther than Neville to debunk that myth - but HiH Gryffindor is.

[reina_ursa]

Exactly. I like to think of the canon Houses and how you fit into them as more of a "mindset" - a way of thinking, you know? Like, it's all about how you would handle things and how your mind works, rather than personality details and specifics? I hope that makes sense! I'm not sure I worded that too well. I mean, you can have so many different personalities in the varying houses. Sure sometimes there really are similarities in people of the same house but it's not always the case.

And Neville is a perfect example!

[rhye]

The cheat sheets were made via a Sorters' Anon discussion activity so it's a list of traits the HiH members of each house see in themselves and each other. I don't think anyone will fit 100% into any of the houses (God how boring if there were only four types of people in the world) but I don't see anything that diverges wildly from canon

[romani_blood]

Well no-one would deny Bella has Gryffindor traits. But don't forget that JK's canon Slytherin traits include ambition and to a certain extent blood purity - as well as belief in the whole pure-blood ideology - and Bella has these in spades. She would settle for nothing less than to be Voldemort's right hand and I could imagine her seeing herself as the most likely candidate to lead the DEs if Voldemort was taken out of the picture

[kaitydid33087]

Cause we live by the kitchens...and probably because of this gif: