Just making a chapter to let everyone know, I live in Texas, and as you have seen on the news, power is in and out often and I have had no water for a bit. I just don't want to write and lose chapters (already has happened) so should be able to do a chapter next week :)

The chapter has to be 500 characters so will add an excerpt from something interesting I found on Pottermore.

Also new cover!

Hufflepuff traits -

Students belonging to this house were 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, and are more modest about their accomplishments. Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its students.

Hufflepuffs were known to have a strong moral code, and a sense of right and wrong. Hufflepuffs were usually accepting of everyone. Students in Hufflepuff were known to value everyone and treat them as equals.

According to Minerva McGonagall, all four of the houses produced exceptional witches and wizards in their time,but due to Helga Hufflepuff's policy of accepting any student Hufflepuff is often thought to be the house of less talented wizards and witches. 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, such as the famous Magizoologist Newton Scamander. A great number of exceptionally skilled witches and wizards also have their origins on this house, including noted Arithmancer Bridget Wenlock, and former Minister for Magic Artemisia Lufkin. What makes Hufflepuff differ from the other houses is the fact that they don't tend to boast about these accomplishments; it is not considered to be part of their nature.

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House ghost, The Fat FriaHufflepuff was the house that produced the fewest dark wizards throughout its history. Their cheerful and friendly demeanour can probably account for this achievement 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 defense of their school.

Hufflepuff's nature and reputation were perhaps best exemplified by its mascot, the badger. Though a quiet and largely unassuming creature that most perceive to be harmless, the badger can be surprisingly vicious if provoked and capable of fighting off animals many times its size, especially if there is a threat to what it cares about. Their capacity to be far more dangerous and cunning than their reputation would suggest, was also shown by the fact that of the four house common rooms, theirs was the only one that possessed an active defense mechanism against those who would try to seek.

And with that, 500 letters lol. I'll delete this when I post a new chapter.