"Hey, I wasn't mocking, I was just inquiring," Joe protested, leaning back in his armchair. To the best of his memory from what Patrick quickly rattled off, the Hufflepuffs were the house most likely to be mocked. It's what you get for being the nice one.
"The Ravenclaws are the blue ones who hover outside the library, yeah?" Joe asked. If he were a better teacher, he supposed, he'd have done all this kind of research beforehand. It hadn't seemed all that important at the time.
"Right, maidenly and kind. Okay." Joe snorted, shuffling his papers back into a neat stack. "And Gryffindors are?"