History of the Sacred 28 (All PURE Blood Families) - Harry Potter Explained

[Music] hey everyone happy new year and welcome to another installment of harry potter theory in today's video we're going to be discussing the complete history of the sacred 28 let's start with the most obvious question what is the sacred 28 well as you may already know it's actually more of a question of who rather than what alright so who exactly are they and how did they come to be well the sacred 28 is a pureblood directory of the wizarding world's supposed most pure-blooded magical families which is to say the witches and wizards whose ancestors had not muddied their bloodlines with muggle integration this extremely prejudiced list was released in the first half of the 20th century sometime in the early 30s although the author of the publication remained anonymous it was widely rumored to have been penned by catankaras not with the knot family of course making the list however whoever the author may have been there is little doubt that the idea behind this despicable directory began with the intolerant ideologies of salazar slytherin one of the four founders of hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry you see salazar was extremely open about his anti-muggle sentiments and not only did the sacred 28 encourage the discrimination of muggles it also outlined the same wizarding families who salazar himself had believed to be of pure magical blood the assertion that some wizarding families were more pure than others was met with mixed review by the wizarding community some openly rejected their inclusion in the directory as they rightly knew that their relatives had married muggles in the past and they did not feel that this fact made them less than other magical families however sadly many more wizarding families were upset at not being on the list so who were these families that came to be known as the sacred 28 let me take you through each one from a to zed abbott listed first in the directory was the abbott clan however it's believed that this particular family only remained a pure blooded one until around the 1930s soon after members of the family married either muggles muggle-born witches and wizards or half-bloods we know this for certain as hannah abbott a hufflepuff student who attended hogwarts at the same time as harry potter was a half blood hannah's mother was tragically killed by death eaters which further suggests that they did not align themselves with those who believed in blood purity later hannah fought in the battle of hogwarts and after school she married neville longbottom other habits of note include the hogwarts portrait of a gifford abbott and theophilus abbott an american wizard and possible relation to the british clan avery not much is known about this particular family within the harry potter universe what we do know is that the avery bloodline is a pure one and in more recent history many members of the family became death eaters black this is of course the last name of harry's godfather and james potter's best friend sirius black the black family had a prestigious yet dark reputation with members of the family including loyal voldemort followers like bellatrix lestrange and narcissa malfoy every member of the black family with the exception of sirius was sorted into slytherin while at hogwarts and the majority of the family adamantly believed in keeping bloodlines pure often referred to as the house of black this dynasty was one of the biggest and longest-standing pure-blooded wizarding families britain had ever seen in fact its origins went all the way back to the middle ages as depicted in the intricate mural of the blacks family tree which hung in the ancestral home of number 12 grimmeld place in london bullstrode this wizarding family was mostly pureblood however similar to the abbott family line some members must have married muggle half blood or muggle-born spouses after the creation of the sacred twenty-eight we know this to be true as millicent bull strode another contemporary of harry's was a half-blood witch you may remember millicent as the slytherin student who hermione tried to impersonate using polyjuice potion in the chamber of secrets unfortunately for hermione it was millicent cat hair that she used in the potion transforming her partially into a cat but my digress burke if this name sounds familiar to you that's likely due to karakticus burke being one of the co-founders of borgin and burke's the shop in nocturne alley that specialized in dealing with dark magic items and rare mystical artifacts borgenenberg's was of course the shop that housed one of the two vanishing cabinets that draco malfoy used as a passageway into hogwarts in the half blood prince garacticus burke also held possession of salazar slytherin's locket which he procured from voldemort's mother when she was desperate for money throughout the series there was also mention of elizabeth burke a witch featured in one of hogwarts portraits that hung in the southern dungeons elizabeth's likeness was heard encouraging southern students to be nasty to mudbloods caro the carrots were a pureblood family with a dark history indeed a member of the carrow family was a known acolyte of gelat grindelwald in 1920s and who could forget the vicious caro siblings alecto and amicus these two taught at hogwarts during voldemort's uprising in the 1990s as the professor of muggle studies and professor of defense against the dark arts respectively they were quite proudly death eaters and would use the cruciatus curse to torture students in the name of discipline and education while snape served as headmaster after dumbledore's death crouch the crouch family was one of the oldest pureblood wizarding families in britain with supposed relations to the families of black yaxley longbottom and weasley bartimius crouch was a high-ranking official at the ministry of magic head of the department of magical law enforcement to be exact making it rather awkward when it was discovered that his son marty crutch jr was a death eater unfortunately due to some rather poor judgment on bartemius's behalf barty crouch jr was able to escape from azkaban an event which led to a series of rather terrible events including the murder of bartimius bharti's impersonation of maddai moody as a hogwarts professor and his manipulation of the goblet of fire which forced harry to participate in the extremely dangerous tri-wizard tournament and ultimately led to harry facing off with voldemort barty jr was later killed with a dementor's kiss a sentence for murdering his father which led to the extinction of the crouch family line fully the foleys were a pureblooded wizarding family whose members were often sorted into hufflepuff house hector foley was mentioned as the minister for magic in the 1920s and 1930s but not much else is known about this lot flint the surname of flint was mentioned here and there throughout the harry potter series so you may have a vague recollection of hearing it on occasion for example sirius black's mother ursula was a flint before she married phineas nigellus black you may also remember the name from a certain captain of the slithering quidditch team marcus flint who harry played opposite during his younger years at hogwarts another flint of note includes josefina flint who was the minister for magic in the early 1800s gaunt with a long dark history known details of the gaunt family can be traced back as far as the 1600s a witch intent on preserving the family's pure-blooded lineage named gormlethorns was responsible for the murder of multiple members of her family throughout the centuries the house of gaunt was also largely involved in keeping the chamber of secrets protected from discovery within the walls of hogwarts one corvina's gaunt was indeed given credit for keeping the chamber concealed in the 1700s when a new plumbing system was installed in the castle the gaunts were so intent on keeping their bloodline pure that they often married their own cousins as descendants of salazar slytherin and cadmus peverell facts that they were enormously proud of they also encouraged inbreeding so as to preserve their ability to speak parcel tongue the rare talent of communicating with serpents the family primarily resided in northern england just outside of little hangleton in what became an incredibly run-down shack this was of course the home that albus dumbledore found himself in when hunting voldemort's horcruxes as mara pigant daughter of marvolo gaunt was voldemort's mother at one point in time the court family had much gold but as they enjoyed living quite extravagantly they were eventually left penniless leaving the last of their lineage morphin gaunt to live and die in destitution green grass the green grass line was a pure blood wizarding family whose views grew much more tolerant with subsequent generations in fact it was a future wife of draco malfoy a story of green grass who was known to have openly shirked her family's anti-muggle views lestrange without a doubt one of the best-known lestranges was actually not a lestrange at all bellatrix lestrange born bellatrix black married into the family after wedding rodolfos estrange it is rumored that she only did so to uphold the expectation that she would marry a respectable wizard from another pureblood family that said the lestranges were not unfamiliar with the concept of marrying their cousins to keep bloodlines pure similar to the house of gaunt they were quite wealthy and well known for their interest in the dark arts so it's not too surprising that bellatrix and rodolphus were two of voldemort's most loyal death eaters other lestranges of mention include radolphus lestrange who was minister for magic in the 1800s and lita lestrange a friend of newton's commander who was responsible for newt's expulsion from hogwarts when they too were pupils there long bottom neville longbottom is surely the most well known of this family line at least by fans of the harry potter series he was of course the somewhat incompetent mate of harry ron and hermione eventually however neville overcame his shortcomings and really came to his own as he was responsible for killing voldemort's pet snake and seventh horcrux nagini among other acts of bravery neville was raised by his grandmother augusta as his parents frank and alice were tragically tortured to insanity by death eaters when neville was just a baby despite having built impressive careers as renowned auras before this event the two never recovered from the dreadful attack and stayed at st mungo's hospital for magical maladies and injuries for the remainder of their lives the long bottoms never seemed to be overly concerned about blood purity however they did not hold the same reputation for being blood traitors as say the weasleys macmillan similar to the long bottoms the macmillan family seemed to be neither prejudice nor in favor of muggle integration for generations they were a pureblood family with little to remark on however ernie macmillan a fellow hufflepuff student in harry potter's year at hogwarts made it clear that the family supported dumbledore during voldemort's rise to power in the 90s finally revealing a little of their ideological views malfoy the malfoys were a pureblood family who resided in malfoy manor in wiltshire england members of this family who attended hogwarts were traditionally sorted into slytherin house and many went on to be involved in the dark arts they have a long-standing history of being in the presence of power including royal courts of muggle kings and queens and the ministry of magic however they were never at the center of these sources of power preferring to operate in the shadows through others it is said that they are one of the few fanatical pureblood families that avoided inbreeding as they were quite aware of the mental instability that could arise of course you will recognize malfoy as the surname as one of the first antagonists in the series draco draco was the only son of lucius and narcissa malfoy these three were followers of fort voldemort until they switched science during the battle of hogwarts not not much is known about the knott family other than that they were pure bloods who were frequently sorted into slytherin at hogwarts catankrasnot has long been suspected to be the author of the sacred 28 and theodor not was a student at hogwarts at the same time as harry theodore's father was a known death eater who allied himself with voldemort quite early in his rise to power ollivander since 382 bc the ollivanders have been providing the english wizarding community with quality ones and they are believed to be one of the oldest wizarding families in existence garrick ollivander has been noted as the earliest member of the family line within england and it is said that he came to britain with the romans but it was not until grant ollivander that the family went into the wand making business of course it was another later garrick ollivander who made both harry potter and lord voldemort's ones parkinson there's not too much to note here the parkinsons were a pureblood family whose members included mean-spirited pansy parkinson a fellow student of harry potter's who had romantic interests in draco malfoy and perseus parkinson a minister for magic in the 1700s pruitt the pruitt family had pure blood status but didn't seem to care too much for the ideologies of blood purity in fact molly weasley was formerly a pruitt and we obviously know she did not support anti-muggle and blood traitor sentiments her brothers were gideon and fabian who were both tragically killed in the first wizarding war by death eaters it is said that many members of the pruitt family line had red hair and large noses rosier a pureblood family who likely originated in france the rosiers appeared to place great emphasis on blood status this seems to be clear due to one rosier being affiliated with grindelwald as one of his acolytes and an evan rossier being named as one of lord voldemort's death eaters raul the rowell family has a varied history with one damocles raul being a minister for magic in the 1700s while a thor finn raul had the reputation as a known death eater euphemia raoul is said to have been the legal guardian of delfini the rumored biological daughter voldemort and bellatrix the strange selwyn a high status pureblood family the selwyns had at least one death eater in the family who took part in the kidnapping of luna lovegood dolores umbridge the despicable witch who tortured students in the name of detention after the ministry appointed her as a professor at hogwarts claimed to be from the selwyn family although this has never been proven shacklebolt the shackleball family was by all accounts of pureblooded ancestry however it is highly unlikely that they were fanatical about blood purity and the ideologies behind the sacred 28. supporting this theory is the existence of kingsley shakabolt one of the first auras and a loyal member of the order of the phoenix during the second wizarding war kingsley protected the mughal prime minister and at one point in the late 1990s he was temporarily named minister for magic shafiq there is not much information on the shafiq family other than that they were a pureblooded wizarding lineage that existed until at least the 1930s when the pureblood directory was published slughorn known to be quite wealthy the slughorn clan was tolerant of muggles and wizarding folk were not purebloods formerly the head of slytherin in the 1940s horace locon returned to teacher dog warts as the potions professor while harry potter was in his sixth year of school he had an odd reputation for seeking out intelligent students inviting them to dine with him at his slug club throughout the years members of the slug club included lily evans harry potter's mother and tom riddle who of course went on to become lord voldemort horace's father was a high-ranking ministry official within the department of international magical cooperation travers there is little to say about the pure-blooded travers family aside from their inclusion in the sacred 28 a torque will traverse was the head of the department of magical law enforcement in the early 1990s and one of voldemort's death eaters was called by the name travers and was known for his hand in the murder of the mckinnon's weasley without a doubt even the most casual of harry potter fans will know the surname weasley as it is of course the last name of harry's best mate ron almost as well known as ron's large loving family which included his parents molly and arthur and his six siblings bill charlie percy fred george and ginny the weasleys had a long-standing reputation for their tolerant views of muggles half-bloods and mudbloods which frequently gave way to other members of the sacred 28 referring to this lot as blood traitors but just as they were scorned by those who valued blood purity the weasleys were outspoken about their resentment being included in such a list as the pureblood directory weasleys were typically sorted into gryffindor house while attending hogwarts and many members of the family supported the order of the phoenix when compared to other wizarding families you would likely view them as quite poor but what they lacked in wealth they more than made up for in compassion the weasley family at least when ron was a boy lived in the borough a large multi-level home close to archery saint catch pole in england after voldemort's final downfall ron went on to marry hermione granger and have two children rose and hugo ginny weasley of course married harry potter having three children of their own james albus and lily yaxley at least one yaxi was a known death eater suggesting that this brood had leanings towards the support of blood purity and anti-muggle sentiments not much else is documented about this particular family and with that we've made it to the end of this video did you learn anything new about families included in the sacred 28 let me know your thoughts in the comments below and as always if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel until next time honestly am i the only person who's ever bothered to read hogwarts a history [Music]

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Published: Mon Jan 03 2022