So Ivan is a responsible person, Chiri is glad to hear. She relaxes her grip on her shovel and lets go with one hand to lean it against her shoulder as if she were carrying a rifle instead.

"That is correct. Subordinates should be responsible for themselves, but their superior is also responsible for both her or himself and them." Chiri smiles.

His Hufflepuff answer is a bit strange, but Chiri can connect Ivan to Russia with that response. Perhaps not as the country, as she has not met any of the others in Hogwarts yet, but she has enough information not to question his answer there.