It’s been a long and busy week since Part 2 of the series came up, and I do apologize for taking so long to update. So let’s get on to the remaining Hogwarts houses without further delay, the houses of Hufflepuff and Slytherin. I fully recommend reading Part 2 before this one in case you haven’t, since it outlines the parameters used for the results in this post.

Hufflepuff

Hufflepuffs are the kind, noble people of the Harry Potter universe. The books describe Hufflepuff as “[the house] where they are just and loyal; those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil”. Founded by Helga Hufflepuff, the house of yellow and black has a badger as their animal, and places emphasis on hard work, patience, loyalty, and fair play.

No questions here about the people in this house – Hufflepuffs are the kind of people who are, well, kind. Save a few rare exceptions, you shouldn’t ever be screwed over by a Hufflepuff, since they are most likely to be the people who will jump up in your defense should anyone be screwing you over. Hufflepuffs are loyal friends for life, sticking through thick and thin, who do not falter in the face of adversity when their affections are involved.

At 83 replies (16.24%), Hufflepuff are the least common Hogwarts house represented in this survey. Even then, their replies leave very little room for doubt as to what the typical Hufflepuff looks like. The house of Hufflepuff has the strongest MBTI values on average, making them the most homogeneous group of all houses, Hogwarts or otherwise. One could infer that this is derived from the relatively small sample size, but the Wampus house in Ilvermorny (spoilers!) is even rarer than Hufflepuff, and they’re not remotely as defined as Hufflepuff. This leads me to the conclusion that Hufflepuff is the house most closely linked to their MBTI typology.

So let’s analyse the numbers from our loyal badgers. Out of all 4 categories, Hufflepuffs have the strongest tendencies out of all houses, Hogwarts or otherwise, in all categories but Outer Focus (where Wampus is more strongly defined). I will therefore not point out every time it happens. Starting with Focus, their tendency towards Introversion is staggering (89.16% against our base of 81.02%), meaning that 9 out of 10 Hufflepuffs have Introverted Focus, making it one of the most defining traits of this house. They do not seek attention, nor are they people to do things in a rush or frantically; rather, the patient Hufflepuffs are very much in touch with themselves, and have a very rich internal dialog. This doesn’t mean that they get lost inside this dialog; their Information Intake happens primarily and strongly through Sensing, moreso than any other house (22.89% against our base of 15.46%). Hufflepuffs are grounded, hard working, patient people, who see reality as it is and doesn’t let it phase them. Their internal dialog is not working towards modifying this reality in their mind’s eye, but rather accepting it as it is, and looking for ways to work with it.

The place where the defining qualities for Hufflepuff finish taking shape is in their Decisionmaking, with Feeling absolutely overtaking Thinking (79.52% against our base of 54.60%). Not only is this the strongest tendency towards Decisionmaking, it is the strongest tendency out of all houses in all values, period. Hufflepuffs have a decidedly strong moral code, to which they will stick until the end of time. They are warm, forgiving people, and will act based on their own moral compass moreso than on cold logic and hard facts. This is where their unwavering loyalty stems from, as well as their devotion towards their figures of admiration. Finally, they orientate their Outer Actions through Judging, with a moderate preference for this (55.42% against our base of 51.27%). They respect deadlines, value hard work above all else, and tend to be more structured than other houses (mostly offset by the recklessness of Gryffindor).

All of this paints a very concrete, defined picture of Hufflepuffs, which corresponds beautifully with their house description. Our description would therefore be as follows:

“Hufflepuff has a strong tendency towards Introverted Focus, a strong tendency towards Information Intake through Sensing, a very strong tendency towards Decisionmaking through Feeling and a moderate tendency towards Outer Judgment”

Our typical Hufflepuff, therefore, would be an ISFJ.

Slytherin

Closing out our Hogwarts write-up is the much maligned house of Slytherin, described as “those cunning folk [who] use any means to achieve their ends.” The house of silver and green has a very bad rapport within the series, even though it shouldn’t have, as the values it prides itself on (resourcefulness, cunning and ambition) are not bad by themselves – rather, their negative associations within the Harry Potter universe gives them a bad reputation which does not apply to the general population of Slytherin.

For starters, those values make a point of Slytherins striving to be successful people, who have a defined set of goals and will go to any lengths to achieve them. They are proud, fraternal people, who will build circles of influence to work their way up in whatever ladder they are climbing – and let there be no doubt, they will climb it. They will pay no heed to the rules or to any obstacles in their way, value themselves above all else, and all these traits combined make Slytherins a veritable force to be reckoned.

Our survey reflects that rather nicely. Slytherins have a nice mixture of Focus, with a slight preference towards Extraversion (22.07% against the base of 19.7%). Much like Gryffindor, Slytherins tend to lead, to place themselves in focus, to steal the spotlight – after all, they place a lot of value on themselves. The first surprise with Slytherins is that they’re strictly neutral towards Information Intake – they deviate from the average value by less than 1%, so this is not something that a Slytherin is defined by. Given that the sample size is of 145 people, and it sticks to the base so closely in this regard, we can conclude that the House of Slytherin doesn’t discriminate based on Information Intake.

The profile of the house begins to take shape when it comes to Decisionmaking. Even though they are extroverts like Gryffindors, Slytherins are diametrically opposed in this regard, where Thinking prevails with a tremendously strong tendence (60% against the base of 45.4%). While Gryffindors base themselves on Feeling, looking to please others and basing their decisions on personal values, the Slytherin Extraversion encounters this extremely prevailing logic, leading to an outspoken yet calculating profile. They detach themselves from people and their feelings, leaving no room for consideration in that, and instead make their decisions based on greater rationality. The final piece in the puzzle comes coupled with a slight preference for Judging (55.17% against the base of 51.27%), which nicely fits the descriptions above. Slytherins take a very calculated approach towards their goals; they prefer knowing exactly what they’re dealing with, and leave no loose end untied.

We could therefore summarize Slytherins as follows:

“Slytherin has a slight tendency towards Extroverted Focus, a neutral tendency towards Information Intake, a very strong tendency towards Decisionmaking through Thinking and a slight tendency towards Outer Judgment”

Our quintessential Slytherins would therefore be ENTJ or ESTJ.

That about wraps up our analysis of the Hogwarts houses. Look forward to the Ilvermorny writeups shortly!