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My point about Crabbe and Goyle is that they don't have every Slytherin trait, so just because someone doesn't have every trait associated with a House doesn't mean they can't be in that House. Loyalty is a main characteristic of Hufflepuff, but that doesn't mean that people of other Houses can't exhibit it (After all, Cedric was brave, Percy's ambitious, and Hermione's smart). And just because they can doesn't mean that we shouldn't use loyalty to put someone into Hufflepuff. Obviously there's always the possibility that someone might have been or would be in a House you wouldn't expect (If we didn't know Hermione's House, we'd probably put her in Ravenclaw, for example), but because we don't know what House they were/would be in for sure, the only real way to categorize them is by the main traits associated with the House. To use the fact that people of other Houses have a trait as an argument for why someone shouldn't be in a House associated with that trait completely defeats our method of putting people into a House in the first place.

Also, as an aside, I want to reiterate that Vernon also seems to value hard-work, which is another Hufflepuff trait.

Only kinda. Like I said, you could have saved everything in an e-mail or something (like copy it to the clipboard and go to a more appropriate site until the teacher's gone, then go to some type of e-mail or something and paste and send to yourself). But whatever, you didn't say to not respond to it, so yeah, I responded to it.

Edit: I want to apologize for going off-topic.

Well, for future reference, you can e-mail yourself on Gaia, so that would have taken like two seconds, but whatever. Like I said, if you're going to post, people are going to respond. It's not like you said not to. By the way, you never finished what you were going to say in the post, anyway...

And again, I apologize for being off topic.

I've always wondered about Madame Hooch, the Quidditch lady, and Madame Pomfrey.

I would place Madame Hooch in Ravenclaw. She's too nice to be a Slytherin, and too athletic to be a Hufflepuff (not that I have anything against Hufflepuff--it's just that I don't picture Hufflepuffians as being very buff and athletic). I see Gryfindors as being much more studious, and doing stuff like being Aurors, as opposed to Quidditch teachers.

Sorry if that makes absolutely no sense, I have a very jumbled mind...

Madam Hooch always struck me as a Hufflepuff, but that might have just been because of the H in her name, lol. I don't suppose we know enough about her or Pomfrey to really put either of them into a House though. I wouldn't be surprised if Madam Pince was a Ravenclaw though, with her love of books.

hmm how about Moody? Not sure if they ever mentioned what house he was in, but I'd say for me its between Slytherin and Gryfindor....He's very brave, as he'd have to be as an auror, but he has the cunning of a Slytherin. Any other thoughts on that?