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

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[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 clannish.

I 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* staying and fixing the problem isn't an option to him. I also think that Hufflepuffs are the house most apt to be passive aggressive. Because not working and not being loyal isn't an option, they'll never tell off the abusive boss or the ^*$$#$ in the server farm. But they'll telegraph their irritation with them in just about every *other* conceivable way. They're caring and loyal, and they'll give you the shirt off their back even if it's 20 degrees in the sun and the shirt is the only piece of clothing they've got. But they might silently resent the *hell* out of you for needing the darned thing.

[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.