Hermione considered herself loyal, the few friends she had back home were old friends so surely keeping them for years meant she was loyal. The fact they mainly stuck around due to her double checking all their homework might mean maybe it wasn't her loyalty to them but they're enjoyment of the free pass they got. She decided right now wasn't the time to go down that rabbit hole. Patients was never something Hermione had, her Father would laugh himself silly if she was sorted into a house with patients as a virtue but he might be proud if she was in the house of the hard working. Maybe she was too hasty to rule out Hufflepuff.