This week the Inter web got it’s first look at the new Pottermore website. The official J.K.Rowling website that was launched in July for a limited number of members released screenshots and other infomation for those of us not lucky enough to already be in Pottermore.
This week also announced Warner Bros offering tickets to the set of the Harry Potter movies so we can all be part of this magical world.
While these two things might be wonderful for most Harry Potter fans, it fails to address the most important question posed in the Potter universe. What the frak is a Hufflepuff?
Hufflepuff really?? I'm not even evil enough for Slytherin??
Yes, it’s time to bring to the light the dark secret of the Hufflepuff. The school that even the Sorting Hat refers to as “the rest”. A house so unloved their homeroom is in the basement, and the only Hufflepuff character in the Harry Potter books that did anything, died (Cedric Diggory).
I showed up just long enough to die
Look at the description of Hufflepuff and you will find words like hard working, loyal, team player, and other phrases one would use to make a kid feel better after they lost the big game.
Even the mascot is an embarrassment. All the other houses have giant snakes and half lion magic creatures while they have a badger. I’m not even sure the badger is even sitting up on the crest, and I’m still not sure a Hufflepuff is a badger.
No he is standing up....or more leaning against the name
Now don’t get me wrong, I know if I ever got the magic letter handed to me by an owl, when I entered the Great Hall that evil little sorting hat would just point over to me yelling “HUFFLEPUFF” without it even being put on my head. I really like my cup of tea and I much rather “find” things then save the world, but do they have to be that sad? Can’t Hufflepuffs be known for more then being lame?
 Hufflepuff Don’t Care Ba… $15.00
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 Harry Potter Inspired- Mini… $8.00
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 Hufflepuff Earrings $5.50
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 Muggle Born Toddler T-Shirt $15.00
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 Madame Puddifoot’s Tea S… $10.00
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 Small Hufflepuff Moleskine J… $8.00
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 Harry Potter Spell – Mischie… $3.50
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 Hufflepuff House Soap $4.95
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A badger isnt too bad of a mascot… LOL
Being lame?
Hufflepuffs are awesome, being a proud Hufflepuff myself (Pottermore might yet prove otherwise :O). I love the symbol of the badger (though helped along from a childhood favourite character from the Animals of Farthing Wood) and as Hagrid says back in Philosopher’s Stone, better to be a Hufflepuff than a Slytherin! xD I think the fact that Cedric, a triwizard champion, came from Hufflepuff is a huge statement. He didn’t have to come from the house of the brave, or the cunning or the smart to be a champion 
And let us not forgot Tonks was also a Hufflepuff. They make a perfectly happy house (that is not lame)! 
Although, that said, I was disappointed to find the HP Warner Bros. store is currently selling robes and sweaters for every house except Hufflepuff >:-(