All About BooksThis will be where I still shout about the books I love and champion the authors who write them, but I'm also expanding this to film reviews again, with some theatre reviews thrown in when I can.
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It's that time of year again! Celebrating the Hogwarts Houses and that's great about them. :) Today, I'm focussing on my House, and I'll do a follow up post tomorrow featuring the other Houses. So I usually try and do a theme. Last year, on my old blog, I talked about the Hufflepuff merch I have. This year, I want to discuss my favourite things (and characters) to come from each House. This is going to be so much fun. :D Character Traits Hufflepuff still gets a relatively bad rap. But if you think that, I'm not here to convince you otherwise. You can have your opinions, after all. However, I put in the above picture for a reason. Hufflepuff isn't just for 'the leftover students'. We're pretty great. (So are badgers.) Anyway, first up- loyalty. That's pretty important to me. When I'm planning out a new writing project and start figuring out my character's traits, yes, I do imagine them all under the Sorting Hat. But even in life, loyalty is super necessary. After all, when you think about it, everyone is loyal to someone or something. Next, hard working. Back when I was trying to work out whether I was in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, this was often a source of confusion. In terms of academics, I learnt was a difference between natural cleverness that the latter House seem to favour and the hard work of getting good results- this one which sometimes I fell into. But hard work goes beyond school and all that. I'm not afraid to have to work at something, even if I'm a beginner at it, in order to get results. Back when I first started spoken word about three years ago, I was convinced I could never write in that style. It took lots of terrible writing to be proud of what I eventually produced- and now that's a main way I write! :) This isn't to say I'm a natural at all of the main traits Hufflepuffs are associated with. I'm certainly not naturally patient (though getting better at it) and like Tonks, I can be really clumsy at times. Of course, there are several Hufflepuffs I love, but I guess I have to mention Newt. He cares so much about his animals and educating people. He's certainly got to be patient there.
Also, in the OWL and NEWT readathons last year, I successfully became Magizoologist! I choose this career partly because it's always sounded interesting (if not a little dangerous), but since I have an undergraduate degree in animal behaviour et al., I figured it couldn't hurt as a magical career. (Separate shout out to this year's OWLs starting in April. All info can be found viaTwitter @MagicalReadathon.) Finally, I feel like Hufflepuffs, while loyal to their own first and foremost- as all Houses are- totally would be the best cheerleaders for what other people do. And I don't have any favouritism. In real life, one of my best friends is a Slytherin. An online friend is a Ravenclaw. And, my time this year in the HP society at my university has been so much fun. While about half of us are Hufflepuff, they have all absolutely made my returning to uni that bit easier with time to not have to focus on studies- and plus, I actually joined a society this time around! :) For all of our differences as people, we all have things worth celebrating about us. That's why I love the House Pride days. It's just lots of love on the internet for each other and who we are- with an additional love of HP. :D See you tomorrow. #HufflepuffPride
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