Os personagens do universo olham para baixo na Lufa-lufa?

Certamente há algumas pessoas que menosprezam a Lufa-lufa.

Exemplos:

• Quando Draco se apresenta a Harry em Filosofal Stone , ele diz:

  “Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I’ll be in Slytherin, all our family have been – imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I’d leave, wouldn’t you?”

• Mais tarde, quando Hagrid explica o sistema da casa para Harry, ele menciona essa noção (embora não esteja totalmente claro se Hagrid está apenas repetindo o meme, ou realmente concorda com ele):

  “And what are Slytherin and Hufflepuff?”

  “School houses. There’s four. Everyone says Hufflepuff are a lot o’ duffers, but –”

• Na carta de boas-vindas de Pottermore para a Hufflepuff, o prefeito reconhece um sentimento geral de que a Lufa-lufa não é impressionante:

  There are a few things you should know about Hufflepuff house. First of all, let’s deal with a perennial myth about the place, which is that we’re the least clever house. […] We’ve produced more than our fair share of powerful, brilliant and daring witches and wizards, but, just because we don’t shout about it, we don’t get the credit we deserve.

• Isso é um pouco diferente, mas quando Harry é escolhido como um Triwizard Champion ao lado de Cedric, é repetido que a Hufflepuff não tem uma ótima reputação:

  It was plain that the Hufflepuffs felt that Harry had stolen their champion’s glory; a feeling exacerbated, perhaps, by the fact that Hufflepuff House very rarely got any glory, and that Cedric was one of the few who had ever given them any, having beaten Gryffindor once at Quidditch.

Malfoy zombou da Hufflepuff House antes mesmo de chegar a Hogwarts:

"Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been — imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"
_{-- Draco Malfoy, HP and the Philosopher's Stone}

Mas ele nunca foi conhecido por sua aceitação de não-sonserinos em qualquer caso.

A música do Chapéu Seletor (ou um deles) sugere que a Hufflepuff é a casa para sobras , aqueles que não são considerados 'bons o bastante' (por várias definições de 'bom') para se encaixarem qualquer outro:

Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry's purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest"
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot and treat them just the same."

[...]

For instance, Slytherin took only pure-blood wizards of great cunning just like him.
And only those of sharpest mind were taught by Ravenclaw
While the bravest and the boldest went to daring Gryffindor.
Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest and taught them all she knew,
_{-- Sorting Hat, HP and the Order of the Phoenix}

Há também uma linha para sugerir que a Hufflepuff é geralmente menosprezada:

Cedric was walking away from the sort of glory Hufflepuff hadn't had in centuries.
_{-- HP and the Goblet of Fire (when Cedric Diggory offers to let Harry take the Triwizard Cup)}

No entanto, deve-se notar que JK Rowling não acredita que a Hufflepuff é ruim :