My Hufflepuff-girl is here with me today (to bake cookies in a real kitchen ;-)), and has read your answers already, very eagerly so and at first a bit disappointed that there was no comment to the last part. I will copy it all for her and give her your email, because she has lots more to say *LOL* ... that is what life with grown-up kids is like, they always know better and must have the last word ;-). She says what you see as weakness is what she embraces lovingly: Newt is a Hufflepuff and that makes it all just right the way he is/acts...