Neville? The boy who tried to stop his friends from losing any more house points in the first volume, and snagged ten points for Gryffindor, winning them the house cup? The one of six veterans of the battle at the ministry, in the fifth? Rowling even tells us the hat wanted to put him into Hufflepuff and he begged for Gryffindor. I bet he had plenty of secret fantasies of being a brave and celebrated hero, and actually managed to become one by book seven.
And Hufflepuffs may unite against you, they do unite against Harry in book two and four, as you pointed out. But I cannot imagine they'd unite against one from their own house, they way Gryffindors and Ravenclaws are shown to do.
By the way, the reason a Slytherin like Phineas Black, who is, after all, on the "good side", would be so dismissive of pointless heroics I'd say is that a true Slytherjn would never leave the end result out of sight - i.e. The point is always "what's in it for me?"
I think I shall go back to my housework.
Last edited by Tigerle; 10/06/15 11:33 PM.
