Just popping in on a thread to say hi, as suggested in your mail :)
I was also wondering; is it alright to comment on some of the essays you've posted, even if they were posted a while ago? I found the one on Slytherin House really interesting.
Have you read the Mitchell and Webb sketch on problems of the Sorting Hat? It's very funny, and features a Hufflepuff professor welcoming the new pupils: (I can't find a link to the text alone - hope it's OK to put it here :))
"Hufflepuff Professor: You'll just have heard the Sorting Hat mention, in his curiously insensitive song, how Gryffindor is for the Brave, Slytherin for the Cunning, Ravenclaw for the Wise, and Hufflepuff for... The Rest. And I realise that to hear that, and then almost immediately to find yourself sorted into Hufflepuff, well, it's not quite the ego boost one hopes for on one's first day at school.
You are one of "The Rest". The Sorting hat has looked deep into your very soul, and what it saw there evidently didn't impress. Oh, I'm aware that the hat has, in the past, occasionally described you as "kind". Yes, and I'm sure that you also have lovely hair.
Some of you may be wondering about the thinking behind the school's decision to put all the appalling duffers into one house, call it "Hufflepuff", and give it the symbol of a Badger. A little harsh, you may feel. You may even, who knows, be questioning the wisdom of trusting the school's entire admissions procedure to a Hat.
These are not, alas, questions I can answer. All I can do is urge you to look on the bright side. At least you're not in Slytherin! (Another curious decision from the school there. To dedicate an entire house to the children in its care who are Evil. Surely a recipe for trouble.)
Anyway, being in Hufflepuff isn't all bad. We have our moments of excitement and achievement. Last year, one of us was killed! That was exciting! And it's something we can all aspire towards."
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I was also wondering; is it alright to comment on some of the essays you've posted, even if they were posted a while ago? I found the one on Slytherin House really interesting.
Have you read the Mitchell and Webb sketch on problems of the Sorting Hat? It's very funny, and features a Hufflepuff professor welcoming the new pupils: (I can't find a link to the text alone - hope it's OK to put it here :))
"Hufflepuff Professor:
You'll just have heard the Sorting Hat mention, in his curiously insensitive song, how Gryffindor is for the Brave, Slytherin for the Cunning, Ravenclaw for the Wise, and Hufflepuff for... The Rest. And I realise that to hear that, and then almost immediately to find yourself sorted into Hufflepuff, well, it's not quite the ego boost one hopes for on one's first day at school.
You are one of "The Rest". The Sorting hat has looked deep into your very soul, and what it saw there evidently didn't impress. Oh, I'm aware that the hat has, in the past, occasionally described you as "kind". Yes, and I'm sure that you also have lovely hair.
Some of you may be wondering about the thinking behind the school's decision to put all the appalling duffers into one house, call it "Hufflepuff", and give it the symbol of a Badger. A little harsh, you may feel. You may even, who knows, be questioning the wisdom of trusting the school's entire admissions procedure to a Hat.
These are not, alas, questions I can answer. All I can do is urge you to look on the bright side. At least you're not in Slytherin! (Another curious decision from the school there. To dedicate an entire house to the children in its care who are Evil. Surely a recipe for trouble.)
Anyway, being in Hufflepuff isn't all bad. We have our moments of excitement and achievement. Last year, one of us was killed! That was exciting! And it's something we can all aspire towards."
:)