Representation matters minds not screens

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Hello HPA! I'm extremely happy to announce that I am doing an debate after a so long time.I am extremely excited for this topic ! This week's debate topic is if Ravenclaws & Hufflepuffs are under-represented ! Let's get into the blog. I wish you a happy reading ! Thank you !!

⸙ Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw - Basics

⸙ Which side am I ing !

⸙ Some Important personalities

⸙ Protoganists and antagonists

⸙ Fan's Representation matters

⸙ Concluding my views

⸙ Outroduction

Ravenclaw And Hufflepuff are basically the two of the four houses of Hogwarts - Gryffindor and Slytherin being the other two. Wizards and witches in Ravenclaw are witty, kind and ambitious while those in Hufflepuff are loyal, faithful on others, kind and have strong determination.

The main reason people consider Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to be under-rated or less represented is because of two major reasons. The first one is something that relates to the perspective of viewing things and the second one relates to skimming through process.

So briefly explaining, the first thing as mentioned above is we view from Harry Potter's perspective of things throughout the story and the second thing is that in movies, in order to bring out the entire story in a couple of hours, they have skimmed off most part of what is mentioned in the books.

So, you might have already guessed which side I'm gonna speak for - if you haven't guessed already, take a guess and scroll down to see which side am i playing my debate.

So Yeah ! Some of you might have guessed from the previous part or from my general trend of arguing on the side which is harder to argue upon ! Yes, I'm arguing for the ' FOR SIDE ' stating that Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws are represented enough in the movies.

To even speak upon this topic, one must view the entire sequel from a common point of view and not having any favoritisms ! The viewing perspective must first be changed.

If we viewed this from Harry's perspective (as in movies) we would definitely end up on the other side cause from Harry's point of view, none of his close-friends or enemies are from the two houses.

But !

If we view the story from a general perspective, like a series of things happening in Hogwarts and not as one's personal story ! We would actually realize the truth that all the four houses are equally represented in the Harry Potter series.

We could never say that the entire Harry Potter series was based on just Slytherins and Gryffindors. There were equally important characters in the remaining two houses. Let's discuss about some of them.

Luna

Ofcourse a majority of potterheads including me like her. She had a rich portion in the series be it reading Quibbler editions in her own swag across the corridors or discovering thestrals pulling the carts or helping the trio have refuge in her house ! No one could ignore the fact that she is such an important character across the series !

Cedric

He was the one selected by the Goblet itself to represent Hogwarts in the triwizard tournament. One could not even imagine the Goblet of fire (Part 4) without him. Honestly, even the movie would have been just for about 20 minutes if they removed all his portions from the Goblet of fire.

Cho Chang

Damn ! The movies completely mis-portrayed her. If one would have read the books before movies, a majority would liked Harry to be with Cho than Ginny I guess. She had some major parts in books across about 3 parts.

Myrtle

That's okay if she is a ghost ! But she still helped Harry across some major parts be it letting him discover the secrets behind the chamber of secrets or helping him across tasks in the Goblet of fire ! She had a good share of her own in the series.

Tonks

How can one even forget Tonks, when speaking about Harry potter - we loved her starting from her appearance on helping Harry escape from Privet Drive and even after her death with Remus. She played an damn crucial role.

I could literally go on explaining about many other characters like sprout, Fat friar, Susan Bones, Flitwick, ollivander and Lockhart ! Lol i could keep on saying about many such characters to as many as people you list from the other two houses.

This is one of the main things im gonna speak about - Protagonists and Antagonists !! In case you do not know, Protagonists and antagonists are both essential characters in a story. But they propel the plot in different and usually opposite ways: The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals.

In simple words, Protagonists are those who play lead roles and Harry Potter, while antagonists are those who Tom ! This is one of the reasons, people think Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs are less represented because most of them play neutral roles and do are not a part of any of these two.

While Lockhart and Cedric Diggory, both were present in almost all the chapters/scenes across the parts Chamber of Secrets & Goblet of Fire respectively, they never played as a protagonist or antagonist ! They played a neutral position. That is the main reason - one does not them instantly when speaking about those parts.

Though, Mad-eye Moody(Barty crouch) and Voldemort appeared only for a short span of time towards the climax or last few chapters in Goblet of fire - almost all them as they played grey shaded roles or were the protagonists.

Another important example is that, Neville Longbottom though portrayed as a funny and innocent counterpart in every part except the last one, he is still spoken more than those who played even neutral roles in Gryffindor itself like Seamus, Charlie, Percy etc,.

Thus, another important reason people consider the houses are less represented because almost all of them are neither protagonists nor antagonists but play a neutral role ing the flow of the story.

Lets just forget about movies and story books, lets come to fandoms and importantly to our Harry potter Amino ! Do you know that, we have equal amount of gryffindors, slytherins and Hufflepuffs even in our existing mod team itself !! If Hufflepuff as claimed is under-rated or less represented, would there be more from Gryffindor or Slytherin ? Even here, we have almost same amount of in each houses ! Thats why we have close victories for house cup race every term.

So yeah ! That was what i was trying to say all through then - REPRESENTATION MATTERS MINDS OF FANS NOT THE SCREEN TIME - and i can easily figure out that most Potterheads are Ravenclaws (googled fact) ! So what else does a house need other than thousands of Loving fans !

So, hereby i conclude that Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw aren't under-rated or less represented, but are the way they are and they must be. I feel that all the four houses of Hogwarts are equally portrayed in the story throughout the end. In fact, the lead characters are equally distributed along all houses ! The only reason Gryffindor seems to have more of them is because of Arthur and Molly }:=)

Thus, i conclude saying all the four houses are equally represented

• Image sources

Images are from pinterest.

•Text sources

Hp wiki, Hp books and my

thought processings !

•Headers sources

Galaxy themed blog ( TASA )

Thank you !

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