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May. 31st, 2021 09:13 pmHufflepuff colors are yellow and black.
Helga's favorite color is not yellow, it is orange. She selected the colors for her House because yellow dyes are plentiful and easy to produce. Some of her charges would have had to had clothing provided for them (for a variety of reasons). The more plentiful the dye, the cheaper it was to obtain (witch or not). The color black was taken from the badger.
Helga Hufflepuff was responsible for bring the House Elves to Hogwarts.
It was a complicated process. Throughout England, Scotland and Wales, there remained abandoned Roman settlements. The elves that served the forts and outposts were left behind. Over time, they grew wild and frenzied without work. Helga found them.
The hearth is the heart. Stones and bricks were taken from the hearths. They were incorporated into the fireplaces and foundation at Hogwarts. This is what allowed them to work at the school and what bound them to the castle. Merchant Class.
Animagus.
Her form is a badger.
Blood status and teaching.
It was a dangerous time for nearly everyone. Vikings were invading. It was centuries before the Renaissance. Helga wanted to teach everyone who could do magic. While she is a kind person, she did not want to teach them primarily out of kindness. It was about safety and fairness. Safety, for that if one could control their magic, they could keep the secret of magic safe. If they remained untrained, they could bring disaster to them all.
As an aside, it was likely more than just blue purity when it came to Salazar Slytherin wanting to teach Purebloods only. There were magic folk killed in the St. Brice's Day Massacre.
Secrecy.
Some wizards were open and public about their ability to do magic.
Helga's favorite color is not yellow, it is orange. She selected the colors for her House because yellow dyes are plentiful and easy to produce. Some of her charges would have had to had clothing provided for them (for a variety of reasons). The more plentiful the dye, the cheaper it was to obtain (witch or not). The color black was taken from the badger.
It was a complicated process. Throughout England, Scotland and Wales, there remained abandoned Roman settlements. The elves that served the forts and outposts were left behind. Over time, they grew wild and frenzied without work. Helga found them.
The hearth is the heart. Stones and bricks were taken from the hearths. They were incorporated into the fireplaces and foundation at Hogwarts. This is what allowed them to work at the school and what bound them to the castle.
The Hufflepuffs were not from the nobility. They were from the rising merchant class and often had what a few members of the nobility did not, money and a bit more education. Her family participated in the dragon, apothecarial, and wool trade. Yes, wool. It helped them blend in a bit more with the Muggles on the trade routes and magicfolk were not immune from needing textiles. Helga was an active participant in the merchant trade. She did a lot of traveling and picked up a few languages along the way.
Animagus.
Her form is a badger.
Blood status and teaching.
It was a dangerous time for nearly everyone. Vikings were invading. It was centuries before the Renaissance. Helga wanted to teach everyone who could do magic. While she is a kind person, she did not want to teach them primarily out of kindness. It was about safety and fairness. Safety, for that if one could control their magic, they could keep the secret of magic safe. If they remained untrained, they could bring disaster to them all.
As an aside, it was likely more than just blue purity when it came to Salazar Slytherin wanting to teach Purebloods only. There were magic folk killed in the St. Brice's Day Massacre.
Secrecy.
Some wizards were open and public about their ability to do magic.
