Which Hogwarts house did J.K. Rowling name after Helga Hufflepuff?

J.K. Rowling named the Hogwarts house Hufflepuff after its founder, Helga Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuff is one of the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. According to the fictional history of the school, Helga Hufflepuff was one of Hogwarts’ four founders, alongside Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. The house is associated especially with hard work, patience, loyalty, and fairness.

The house mascot is the badger, and its traditional colors are yellow and black. Hufflepuff’s common room is located near the kitchens, although the books provide less architectural detail about it than about some other house locations.

Important Hufflepuff characters include Cedric Diggory, Nymphadora Tonks, and Newt Scamander. Hufflepuff is sometimes mistakenly treated as the least important house, but Rowling’s books emphasize that its values are central to the series’ moral world. The house also won the 1994–1995 Quidditch Cup in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’s school-year chronology.