Hufflepuff

Hufflepuff House
Hufflepuff is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Helga Hufflepuff. The Head of Hufflepuff is Pomona Sprout. The Fat Friar is the House's patron ghost. Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members. Its emblematic animal is the badger, and yellow and black are its colours. Hufflepuff corresponds roughly to the element of earth.

Students belonging to this house are known to be hard-working, friendly, loyal, honest and rather impartial. It may be that due to their values, Hufflepuffs are not as competitive as the other houses, or are more modest about their accomplishments. Hufflepuff appears to have the least rivalry with the other houses, except in Quidditch.

According to Minerva McGonagall, all four of the houses have produced exceptional witches and wizards in their time, but due to Helga Hufflepuff's policy of accepting any student and its usually poor performance in the House Cup, Hufflepuff is often thought to be the house of less talented wizards. However, this is merely a misunderstanding of the Sorting Hat's poem. The Hufflepuff house has produced a great many of successful and influential members of the wizarding world.

Hufflepuff has produced the fewest number of dark wizards than any other house at Hogwarts. Their cheerful and friendly demenor can probably account for this property of the House. Hufflepuff firmly demonstrated its loyalty during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when they were second only to Harry Potter's own house of Gryffindor in the number of students willing to stay and fight against Voldemort and his forces in the defence of their school.

Other:
Founder: Helga Hufflepuff

House colors: Yellow and Black Animal: Badger

Element: Earth

﻿﻿Traits: ﻿Head:
 * Dedication
 * Hard Work
 * Fair play
 * Patience
 * Kindness
 * Tolerance
 * Unafraid of Toil
 * 1) Pomona Sprout

Ghost:  Fat Friar

Common room: Hufflepuff Basement

Other interesting facts:

 * Hufflepuff has produced the fewest Dark wizards of all the four Houses, if any.
 * Giffard Abbott was most likely a Hufflepuff, given his attitude towards this House and sharing a surname with known Hufflepuff Hannah Abbott.
 * Amos Diggory may have been a Hufflepuff if he attended Hogwarts, as his son, Cedric was.
 * The most members of Hufflepuff house appear to have either blonde or brown hair
 * The Hufflepuff Basement was the only common room that Harry Potter didn't enter during his years at Hogwarts.

Quotes:
"You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil"                                                        —The Sorting Hat