baaad plotbunny, funny video, and Slytherin House

[pinkpolarity]

This thread on fanficrants has given me a silly shortfic parody bunny, wherein Salazar Slytherin enforces the "no electricity, must use parchment and quills" rule while the others are off distracting themselves. (Rowena Ravenclaw is busy reading the blogosphere. She has to be.) If I can manage to get some work done, I think I'll actually write this. Crackfic

Comments

[terrylj]

Where are the people belong who are innately selfish and lazy, but who have been incalculated with morals and work ethics so that they do work hard and sacrifice themselves for others, but only so that they'll feel good at the end of the day?

Not that I know anyone like that...*shifty eyes*

[pinkpolarity]

Hufflepuff. With my husband, who is SO like that.

[terrylj]

But I always got the feeling that Hufflepuffs really were good and caring and hard-working and loyal. They didn't really have to work at it, they're just born that way. And I know people who really are like that. Whereas I...er...know people who are NOT really like that. They've just been taught to behave that way, and they've thought about it and decided that yes, that works and that's a good way to be...but it's still a struggle.

[pinkpolarity]

I don't know about the good and caring-- I think Harry, during the whole "heir of Slytherin" business in CoS, might have something to say about that. :) Hufflepuff (like I just added to my post) strikes me as the most collectivist of houses. At its best it's a kindhearted family, at the worst, it's an angry mob. Earn the loyalty of one and the house will love you for life, piss one off and you earn the enmity of the lot. The word that always comes to me for the Huffles is clannishI also think they sometimes have to work at it. :) The thing that sets a Hufflepuff apart from the other houses is the inability to sit still if there's something needing to be done. There are a lot of times I see Rob piss and moan about having to do something, but once he gets going he works doggedly until it's done. It's that "this needs doing, and *somebody* has to do it!" mentality, where the "somebody" is usually a Hufflepuff. He might resent the heck out of the boss asking him to stay late or the ^*&#$%$ who messed up his work group's server, but *not*

[terrylj]

Ah-hah! That makes much more sense (more realistic) than my idea of them. And now I can see that my DH is also a Hufflepuff. A dyed-in-the-yellow-wool, work-until-you-have-a-nervous-breakdown Hufflepuff.