Not too shabby, I shall say! :)
Very nice insight, though clearly I wish these kinds of depressing thoughts on no eleven-year-old boy. Poor Hufflepuff!

I have really low self esteem, and I can see where the Hufflepuff is coming from.

Hey, good fic. Interesting point of view. I always believed that it would suck to be put into Hufflepuff. Better than Slytherin, but only because at least Hufflepuffians are generally decent people. But it would, literally be like winning third prize - not brave enough, not smart enough ... not even ambitious enough!
And then there's the whole name thing ... Hufflepuff even sounds a little bit pathetic compared to the other three. A little bit incompetent.
As I said before, interesting perspective. It works well as a one-shot, I don't suppose you're interested in turning 'A Hufflepuff's Lament' into a multi-chapter fic? That could be really good as well.
One thing, in the eighth paragraph, the 'there' should be spelt 'their'. But the rest of the fic is great.
Nice work, RogueMarieL.

cute lol! (i'd die if i were in hufflepuff.) nothing to flame here... nicely done. XD

cheers!