Note: I’m referring to slytherin primary and hufflepuff primary as per @sortinghatchats​ system.



It’s been observed that hufflepuffs and slytherins get along excellently in real life. From the slytherin primary perspective, the reason is as follows:



1. YES someone else who understands that the important thing isn’t some abstract principle or felt ideal but people.

2. wait NO you can’t do that with EVERYONE people will take advantage of you omg you need to choose who to expend your resources on carefully

3. *hufflepuff refuses to listen because hufflepuff*

4. ok… guess I need to protect this cinnamon roll since NO ONE ELSE will do it



then the hufflepuff goes around smiling flowers at everyone while the slytherin hovers menacingly right behind them, glaring daggers at anyone who dares look at them the wrong way. whenever the hufflepuff turns around the slytherin switches to smiling flowers until they turn their backs again.

(a real life example i know of is a married couple where the husband was someone a lot of people turned to for help. Given the opportunity, he would have been spending 24/7 helping people (and not, say, sleeping or having any other time to himself) so the wife would answer the phone and filter people out for him/insist on fixed visiting hours and shoo out guests etc. When she passed away his kids started to have to unplug the phone to enable him rest time/time to himself)



I have no idea what the hufflepuff perspective on this dynamic is but am happy to hear.