Hufflepuffs were hard workers, but they seemed to be toilers mostly - all the same, no bright stars among them to distinguish them currently. That wasn't true of everyone, Julius knew, but on a whole he'd never really thought of Hufflepuff as supplying the leaders of tomorrow. The bodies to sit behind desks and do the paper work, yes, but not a future minister.
He glanced down at Slughorn's hand and then back up at the man, his face perfectly composed. "No, I would never disappoint, nor do I think my House-mates would."