I've been looking at the Sorting contest (http://www.livejournal.com/community/hogwartsishome/46831.html#cutid1) for the traits and I have come up with the following.
Hufflepuff Pro: I have empathy. I do look at how situations look and seem to others. I care about that. I will listen to my friends tell me a situation from their day and I sit there and try to see it from the other's view. Not my friend but the customer or the employee that my friend interacted with. I try to look at the situation from that point of view and point out to my friend how that other person may have felt in that same situation. When I reflect upon interactions with my friends I try to see how they might have taken the interaction. Con: I am not patient. Ever. I hate having to explain the same thing to the same people over and over. If someone isn't understanding the directions I am giving them I would much rather do things myself. An example is my trying to help my sister understand math. I explained it to her the same way her teacher did, I showed her the shortcuts, I reworded things so that it was less confusing to understand, she still didn't understand and I got frustrated. I also have this three strikes and your out rule. If I tell someone not to do something twice and it happens again, lord help them. It's never a physical action I take against them, but they sure won't ever try it a fourth time.
Ravenclaw Pro:I feel that I am rather knowledgeable. I know a lot of stuff, it's just not all important stuff. I may not know the atomic weight of Uranium, but I do know that a twelve pack of soda weighs approxamately ten pounds. What I know makes for lively thought provoking conversation that people often go to books or the internet to see if my bizzaro facts are true. The only aspect in which my knowledge isn't completely useless (unless we're talking Jeopardy, in which case my lack of knowing the atomic weight of Uranium isn't helping) is in costuming and fashion history. I can tell you where the bell bottom style originally came from, a theory as to why they became popular in the 60's and 70's, and how to alter a regular pants pattern so that you can make bell bottoms. It takes a bit of research to get the facts into my head but once they are there they never completely leave. Con: I don't consider myself studious. I have always hated homework, not the studying per-say but the needing to convey to a teacher that I have learned something (I have always been better at test taking than projects and writing). I love researching, I always want to find the most information I can on any given subject, but once it comes time to write it all down into a paper I become discouraged and disgruntled. I have always been told by teachers that if I would just do my homework I would get an A, but I would always say that I was fine with a B.
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Date: 2005-07-20 04:21 pm (UTC)Hufflepuff
Pro: I have empathy. I do look at how situations look and seem to others. I care about that. I will listen to my friends tell me a situation from their day and I sit there and try to see it from the other's view. Not my friend but the customer or the employee that my friend interacted with. I try to look at the situation from that point of view and point out to my friend how that other person may have felt in that same situation. When I reflect upon interactions with my friends I try to see how they might have taken the interaction.
Con: I am not patient. Ever. I hate having to explain the same thing to the same people over and over. If someone isn't understanding the directions I am giving them I would much rather do things myself. An example is my trying to help my sister understand math. I explained it to her the same way her teacher did, I showed her the shortcuts, I reworded things so that it was less confusing to understand, she still didn't understand and I got frustrated. I also have this three strikes and your out rule. If I tell someone not to do something twice and it happens again, lord help them. It's never a physical action I take against them, but they sure won't ever try it a fourth time.
Ravenclaw
Pro:I feel that I am rather knowledgeable. I know a lot of stuff, it's just not all important stuff. I may not know the atomic weight of Uranium, but I do know that a twelve pack of soda weighs approxamately ten pounds. What I know makes for lively thought provoking conversation that people often go to books or the internet to see if my bizzaro facts are true. The only aspect in which my knowledge isn't completely useless (unless we're talking Jeopardy, in which case my lack of knowing the atomic weight of Uranium isn't helping) is in costuming and fashion history. I can tell you where the bell bottom style originally came from, a theory as to why they became popular in the 60's and 70's, and how to alter a regular pants pattern so that you can make bell bottoms. It takes a bit of research to get the facts into my head but once they are there they never completely leave.
Con: I don't consider myself studious. I have always hated homework, not the studying per-say but the needing to convey to a teacher that I have learned something (I have always been better at test taking than projects and writing). I love researching, I always want to find the most information I can on any given subject, but once it comes time to write it all down into a paper I become discouraged and disgruntled. I have always been told by teachers that if I would just do my homework I would get an A, but I would always say that I was fine with a B.