Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hufflepuff House
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Place | |
| Hufflepuff House | |
|---|---|
| Location | Hogwarts |
| Permanent Residents | Hufflepuff students |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Contents |
[edit] General Overview
Hufflepuff House is one of the four Houses in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[edit] Extended Description
Housemistress: Professor Pomona Sprout
Founder: Helga Hufflepuff
Coat of Arms: black badger, yellow
Ghost: The Fat Friar
Characteristics: "Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid of toil."
Location of common room: unknown, but down the main hall downstairs, cellar-like in appearance and thought to be near the kitchens.
[edit] Analysis
The number of students actually in each House is uncertain. We only ever hear of five boys and five girls in each year, but we have been told by the author in an interview that the average class size (all residents of one House for one year) is about thirty. Thus we must assume a population of 210 per house, fifteen boys and fifteen girls each year.
One gets the impression from things said in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that House honours, notably the House cup and the Quidditch cup, are generally held by either Gryffindor house or Slytherin house, with Ravenclaw house occasionally winning an upset victory. Hufflepuff seldom if ever gets any glory, and the members of that House are overjoyed when one of their own, Cedric Diggory, is chosen as one of the Champions in the Triwizard Tournament.
