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

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re discussing the Sacred Twenty-Eight. Let’s start with the most obvious question: What is The Sacred Twenty-Eight? Well, as you may already know, it’s actually more a question of WHO, rather than WHAT. Alright, so WHO exactly are they and how did they come to be?
Well, The Sacred Twenty-Eight is a “Pure-Blood 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 blood lines with Muggle integration. This extremely prejudiced list was released in the first half of the Twentieth Century, sometime in the early ‘30s. Although the author of the publication remained anonymous, it was widely rumoured to have been penned by Cantankerus Nott (with the Nott 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 Twenty-Eight 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 Twenty-Eight? Let me take you through each one, from A to Z.
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[@HarryPotterTheory]

Thanks for watching all! Happy new year! Please like and subscribe to support future content!

[@leahluostarinen]

I have

[@starwarts4556]

I guess that the Peverell family weren't ever considered as part of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, then?

[@vegavathy4481]

@@starwarts4556 they weren't

[@TheFrecklish]

@@starwarts4556 The name was extinct when the list came out, y'know🤨

[@venomyt2910]

What about the family of Potter They pure bloodlines

[@JP-uf9sh]

Fun fact: By the end of the Harry Potter Saga about a third don't have any living heirs left to continue the bloodline. Voldemort indirectly caused most british pureblood lines to die out that served under him.

[@marcelbruns1808]

It's almost like fascism is a suicide cult.

[@patrickmcglonejr8163]

Pretty much only like 5 or 6 are left by then end.

[@JP-uf9sh]

@@patrickmcglonejr8163 Unless J.K wakes up one morning and decides YX had a secret child - that has always existed - that he/she send away over the ocean and then it drowned. But oh no it did not drown it's actually XYZ's brother/sister/cousin/childthat had 20 babies in 10 years while we were not looking. 😂😂

[@JP-uf9sh]

@Thisis Gettinboring Thats up to you. Not the author. 🤣😆

[@itsmyboardwhotalk]

quite comon, churchill, kennedy senior etc. all complained about hitler, not because of his views but because that he is going to extreme.

[@martinw1225]

Ironic how Voldemort wanted only pure bloods in the wizarding world (even though he himself was a halfblood) and yet his actions (both directly and indirectly) led to the end of many pure blood families.

[@thecajunphoenix]

Also, Lord Voldemort was not a Pureblooded Wizard at all, he was a Halfblooded Wizard with a Muggle sperm donor (Tom Riddle abandoned his wife and unborn child) and a Pureblooded egg donor (Merope Gaunt Riddle was so broken that she chose to die rather than continue to endure her husband's rejection), and he was conceived because Merope gave Tom Riddle cool drinks laced with Amortentia, the strongest love potion in existence.

[@lujodrimovkvisin7843]

Tasked failed succesfully

[@frenchtoast2319]

Just like hitler called blue eyed blond hair people superior but he himself was brunette with brown eyes.

[@ALF8892]

I believe that its a myth Voldemort cared about pure bloods. By all accounts he pure manipulative, evil, psychopathic and sociopathic. His followers cared about pure bloods. Voldemort knew that they would follow him of that's what he said

[@barbiquearea]

The Potters weren't included on the list because the surname was considered a very common muggle name. Not to mention Harry's great granddad Henry Potter was a very pro-muggle member of the Wizengamot and spoke out for muggle rights and wizard intervention into the muggle world. Though by all indications the Potters should have qualified as two men in the family took brides from the Black family and these unions weren't opposed by the awfully rigid Black family and their pureblood mania.

[@jcfoster5535]

They were also decedents of the peveral brothers right?

[@Uknowjusticemill]

@@jcfoster5535 yes, descendants of one brother

[@taliesinllanfair4338]

Yeah I was surprised the Potters weren't listed. I know Lilly wasn't pure blood pretty sure that James was.

[@barbiquearea]

@@taliesinllanfair4338 James and Lily weren't even born by the time the Sacred Twenty Eight was put out.

[@lxena8033]

From my understanding, The Potters were on the list, but taken off....I can't remember the exact reason, I think their were a couple of inappropriate marriages....then they were kicked off. I believed this happened long before Fleamont, and James Potter was even born....Actually think there is a video here on KZbin discussing it.

[@finnji7328]

Neville's weakness with magic was due to the fact that for a long time he used his fathers wand to honour him. The wand chooses the wizard, not the other way around and as such his fathers wand didn't work as well with Neville as it did with his father causing him to seem magically weak

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

During Slytherin's time the anti-Muggle sentiments were completely justified since they were hellbent on killing witches and wizards. He was more like "Hey, you know those people currently trying to exterminate people like us? Yeah, *let's not invite their children here."*

[@thenetherlands5838]

To be honest we don’t know how the wizards and witches at that tome behaved towards Muggles. It might just be as bad.

[@scorne414]

Finally someone said it.

[@louisbrown4620]

Spoken like a true Slytherin. Well done.

[@meep1809]

Nah he was just a racist nazi

[@maxwellmaxwell3042]

@@thenetherlands5838I found the Heir of Slytherin, everyone

[@jasemsaeed5967]

I want to see a movie of the first wizarding war and how Voldemort got these incredible abilities- that would be good

[@ebeckman1011]

I’ve wanted this since I read the first book and Hagrid mentioned “dark times” and started talking about all the people Voldemort had killed.

[@CallumPage]

My theory is that we will see the first wizarding war in the fantastic beasts movie series I reckon it will end on Voldemort's birth

[@ebeckman1011]

@@CallumPage if it ends with Voldemort’s birth then it will not show the first Wizarding War which generally refers to the period of time when Voldemort rose to power culminating in his loss of powers while attempting to kill Harry Potter.

[@s4xtt]

They can do a spin off of this with regulus as the main character

[@misterthijsjanthijsjanvdkn9976]

@@CallumPage Voldemort’s birth is before the defeat of grindelwald if i remember correctly cus he was in his 70 in the movies so he was born in the 1920s and grindelwald was defeated in 1945

[@shakemagilbert2739]

Slight mistake, Ursula Flint (Black) was Sirius’s great, great grandmother. His mother was Walburga Black

[@sophievanbeek8547]

Fun fact this Ursula Flint also had a son named Sirius Black and this Sirius Black 1 was the great grandfather of our Sirius Black

[@Raevnard]

Was gonna say this, but you beat me to it. Yeah, there were multiple Sirius Blacks, so I can see it being confusing. Something about naming your kids after stars you can see isn’t very creative lol

[@SleepyBoi216am]

Its leviooosa, not leviosah

[@foodofthegods]

Phineas was definitely not Sirius’s father lol

[@beheadedcousins6494]

Yeah I was thinking this and I looked in the comments for something and here it is

[@barbiquearea]

"Not much is known about the Nott family" I see what you did there

[@KnoxyBoi1]

Lol same

[@nonos5037]

Lol

[@amelie6944]

can you explain?

[@shadowlitten547]

@@amelie6944 not,Nott,get it now?

[@balanc-joy9187]

Also, Nott, the one we see among the Death Eaters, was one of the ones who lied about being under the Imperius Curse...he was _Nott_ brainwashed. Get it? That isn't from me by the way, it's on the site TV Tropes.

[@macwelch8599]

I would like to see a movie detailing Hagrid going to Hogwarts and watching his relationships with other students, especially Tom Riddle

[@sonyaschilling5187]

I wonder if Hagrid will go to Hogwarts about the time Fantastic Beasts is in their final film or two!

[@FrostDJakki3529]

I don't know about a movie but maybe a mini series. That's be cool. I'd rather have a movie about one of the other schools or even the last triwizards cup before Harry.

[@scottrawicz7613]

History of the Marauders too

[@Sh4yd]

Tom Riddle was a half-blood, thus breaking the pure blood lines of the Gaunt, Riddle and Lestrange family. Edit: By Riddle family I meant Slytherin family, sorry.

[@zimonzieclown1633]

@@Sh4yd Riddle is a muggle family, though. Also, Cadmus is not a wizarding family at all; it's the first name of one of the Peverell brothers.

[@andremayers7445]

Its interesting how the trio represented each wizarding category at the time Ron,Harry, Hermoine (pure blooded, half blooded and muggleborn)

[@matsujonen]

I'm not sure Harry would be considered half blood since both his parents were wizards/ witches

[@andremayers7445]

@@matsujonen Harry's dad was a pure blood however his mom was muggleborn thus harry would be a half blood. Same would apply to Ron & Hermoine's children.

[@TheAlphatitan]

@@matsujonen I don’t think you understand how that system works, it’s not about your parents but your great grandparents. (You need 3 generations of wizards in your family to be considered a pure blood)

[@aleckcain4142]

@@andremayers7445 Harry's dad was a half blood his mother was muggle born

[@tater4442]

@@aleckcain4142 false, the potter were a pureblood line of wizard before lily and Harry. Lily was the first muggle born in the potter line. James is a pureblood

[@ravenregards]

I wish there were actual "real" official books like Hogwarts a History as opposed to non-official and unauthorized versions.

[@jacoboconnell7518]

I'd spend an entire paycheck and not think twice about it

[@anah.7876]

maybe; if only, if only... ,3 can the real author crash on ur couch in the future?

[@jacoboconnell7518]

@@anah.7876 Alexa: remind me to buy couch

[@swimfan752]

It’s fiction …

[@anah.7876]

​@@swimfan752 well I'm the real author - All That not fiction

[@daymanoo00oo56]

YO, neville was not “somewhat incompetent” he was using his fathers wand for the first 5 years of his schooling, and even with that wand he did well in the DA. In potions, a class with “no foolish wand waving” he was ruthlessly bullied by Snape, when snape wasn’t around, he did fairly well, as shown by his OWL score.

[@nonachyourbusiness1164]

Neville's grandmother is the true villain

[@FinnBrownc]

Hate to say it but Neville was TOTALLY incompetent (until the very end).

[@Dolores.Umbridge]

​@@FinnBrownche fucking killed one of voldermort's horcruxes. how is that incompetent?

[@alliyanasgalaxies]

​@@FinnBrownche led the DA with ginny and luna for a whole year and put himself in such dangerous situations that he was to be sent to azkaban/death before he hid in the RoR

[@brianbowles6544]

Barty Crouch Jr. was not killed by the Dementor's Kiss. He had his soul sucked out, but he was still alive. What happened after that is not known, but it is directly stated by Lupin that the Kiss does not kill the victim.

[@HeartlessRandomguy]

Exactly

[@halvorson566]

It won't kill you, but you are souless&a shell of your former self. You might as well be good as dead. Even better of dead honestly, because some theorize that you won't be able to go onto the afterlife&be stuck in purgatory since your soul has been destroyed. Similar to how if your soul splits(different than creating a horacrux) from using Avada Kedavra, you won't reach the afterlife.

[@josephchang2145]

He's pretty much dead tho...

[@AustinCityLimits91]

While it does say that the dementors kiss does not kill the victim you could say that the person is dead. W/o our souls our bodies are husks. Empty shells w/o cognitive thought. Incapable of thinking moving or acting of its own accord. That to me is death.

[@rokhsanaparvinnupur5692]

No he's basically dead without a soul

[@bennobechtle8065]

Just to add to the note on the Black family, it's mentioned that only Sirius is not sorted into Slytherin. You can argue that Nymphadora Tonks is also on that lot as she is the daughter of Andromeda Black (sister of Narcisa and Bellatrix) Nymphadora was Draco Malfoy's cousin but was sorted into Hufflepuff and not Slytherin

[@foodofthegods]

1) Andromeda was disowned, she wasn’t part of the family anymore 2) don’t call her Nymphadora

[@johnlewis5772]

@@foodofthegods w reply wow

[@foodofthegods]

@@johnlewis5772 ?

[@johnlewis5772]

@@foodofthegods it was funny

[@foodofthegods]

@@johnlewis5772 lol thanks

[@JKH133]

I’ve always liked the fact that while some Purebloods were obviously horribly prejudiced towards Muggles, nobody seems to be at all racist in terms of skin colour, country of origin, etc

[@marcelbruns1808]

Racism and other discrimination works on the basis on who is not "us"

[@blackmage665]

it is in fact, a children's book series and there is nothing stopping there from being normal racism. also,being a wizard is based on blood (genetics), so it's closer than you think.

[@rubyeloise01]

the whole idea of wizarding pureblood is an allegory for racism, it's just easier to swallow because it's a children's book series and doesn't seem like it applies to us 'muggles'.

[@balanc-joy9187]

The Death Eater who accompanies the Trio when they are robbing Gringotts, Travers is his name I think, was _very_ unpleasant to Ron as a fake foreigner, so it might be more racism and xenophobia are _less_ prevelant in the Wizarding World, likely because all races can and do have magic, which equalizes things to some extent, but it isn't totally nonexistent.

[@ToryIsCooliest]

And Voldemort + death eaters are an allegory for Hitler + nazis Hitler was "half-blood" being half Jewish even though he called for Jewish genocide

[@msmydo]

In the movie (I do not remember the book ending) Voldemort allow Longbottom to speak, even while laughing at him. It could be because Voldemort held reverence for his pure-blood lineage.

[@leejamesmccarthy]

I doubt that was the reason in the film, voldemort only cared about himself he didn't care about pure bloods to the same extent he merely used blood purity as a convenient reason for the pure blooded wizards to be his death eaters, and besides he might not have known that Neville was a pure blood and I doubt he cared if he was either since he was an enemy

[@TheFrecklish]

In the book, Neville charges as Voldemort is giving his speech, but is stopped. Bellatrix tells Voldy he is the boy who has given the Carrows so much trouble at Hogwarts. Voldy wants him to join him, because he is brave and of pure blood. Neville then says: “I’ll join you when Hell freezes over! Dumbledore’s Army!” Then Voldy tries to kill Neville by binding him, putting the sorting hat on him and setting it on fire. Then a whole lot of stuff happens at once.

[@msmydo]

@@TheFrecklish thank you. It all comes back to me now. I think thats when he kills the snake too.

[@breezy6859]

Voldemort is a hypocrite. Imagine being so angry about being half blood that you create an army and kill the very thing you are. The Death Eaters I think were terrified of him so blindly followed him.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@breezy6859 Dark wizards rejecting their own muggle blood is a common theme. It isn't lost upon many in Order that Voldemort was the son of a muggle and a squib, the two things that dark wizards hate the most.

[@theb3654]

I don't think the Weasleys are poor anymore, all their kids went on to be successful in their respective fields.

[@cjg8763]

Random HP thought: how in the hell did Crabbe and Goyle pass any of their classes? How were they not held back in first year every year? How did they pass any OWL exams? Seriously, those guys' pilot lights were just about all the way out!

[@TheFrecklish]

I expect year 1-4 didn’t have the highest passing requirements. They certainly did fail their OWLs :) at least potions(was mentioned in HBP), but I expect all or most of the others as well.

[@kassiopeia5565]

I think I remember Snape saying something in book 6 that Crabbe and Goyle need to study harder if they want to pass their OWLs. He mentioned this when talking to Malfoy who complained Snape gave them detentions. It sounds like they failed and got left back, or at least had to retake OWLs

[@shepwillner7507]

You might recall in either Philosopher's Stone or Chamber of Secrets how Malfoy introduced Crabbe and Goyle as his friends. They're really not his friends but his bodyguards or his personal goons. If you watched any of the "Godfather" movies or read the Mario Puzo's novels, goons or body guards are not known for their intelligence but for their brute strength and ability to follow orders. That description clearly fits Goyle and Crabbe to the proverbial "T".

[@balanc-joy9187]

Snape's bias for the early years, and maybe Malfoy did their homework, or got someone else to do it.

[@Nerdixy]

I don't think they did pass many (if any) classes, atleast not until there final year when they flourished under the carrows.. But in UK schools we don't hold people back years, what grades you get you take with you for good or bad and I think hogwarts shares this rule with muggle schools.

[@TheAlphatitan]

10:53 that’s really unfair to Neville, he was using his father’s wand and when it broke, he became almost as good as Harry with his magic. Meaning after OotP Neville is stronger than Hermione and Ron, so no he’s not incompetent he’s actually quite powerful.

[@newhybrid101]

Yep there is plenty of indications he had repressed potential

[@SasukeUchiha723]

@@newhybrid101 yup he showed signs of magic waay before harry showed his..........

[@MrDknuckle]

His Grandmother had a lot to do with it -- she actually sabotaged Neville to save him the same fate as his parents -- my opinion of course

[@truthh8597]

Neville was going through ptsd, depression, anxiety among other mental complications.. these are known to diminish or kill the potential of people

[@anngleeson4736]

Voldermort knew Neville was pureblooded Albus said it....Actually that prophecy vould have been about two boys both born at the same time both whose parents thrice defied Voldermort but Voldermort picked the half blood not pure blood boy too be his enemy....Can u guess the other boy. Then Harry said Neville Albus agreed

[@hamsandwich6374]

It seems weird that Genie would let Harry name all 3 of the kids. You would think one would me named after her wacky uncle or something. Or if Harry is going as far to name kids kids after his deceased parents they would name the other after the brother she lost.

[@rovanajean9550]

Harry Potter at the end of the book naming his children like some nerds who just finished reading Harry Potter

[@hamsandwich6374]

@@rovanajean9550 lol that made me crack up thanks.

[@IsisMalkvier]

George and Angelina had kids first and they named his firstborn Fred. I think Ginny considered irrelevant having two Fred's in the same generation as that privilege belonged to his twin, so I guess she felt satisfied with being able to name her daughter Luna 😂

[@Tomironi]

Incredible content time and time again! I love watching it whilst doing my own work on the side 👌🏻

[@PistachioDean]

One of my favourite parts about A Series of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) is that we get a sigil and motto for each house. Similarly to the House of Black, I would have liked for not just the Sacred Twenty-Eight, but also houses we're more familiar with, like the Potter and Weasley families, to have also gotten a family crest and motto.

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

The Weasleys are Sacred Twenty-Eight, though.

[@Father_of_chaos]

And the blacks and Malfoys have a family crest, I bet lestranges did too.

[@creepyypaper1438]

I went through a phase of playing wow classic and it buried your videos beneath them. I'm so glad to have this channel back on my daily visits. I listen as much for the content as just hearing your voice so keep these longer videos coming.

[@Christineovison]

This was a good video. Very informative. Thank you.

[@gshaz7]

happy new year! best potter channel around! the graphics are amazing as always! thank you!

[@mineduggery3309]

It's really impressive, that you still can come up with so many ideas after 20 years of Harry Potter!

[@GarretGarlinger]

very cool video! Learned alot!

[@scottrawicz7613]

Would be a hoot if Rowling wrote and had it published; Hogwarts a History. I wish she would write a magical Law Book.

[@akitoyaname7897]

Seeing how sick some of the long pure bloodlines got in the head it makes me think that maybe this level of pure magic isn't safe for the human/sorcerer soul

[@ellaser93]

Yeah... Inbreeding will do that.

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

It had nothing to do with magic, it was the fucking inbreeding.

[@animeguygaming4803]

U deserve way more subs Edit: wish I could sub a billion times

[@alessandro-hr5qj]

I would really really love to see a video where you rank all wand woods from best to worst based on for example power and adaptability or you could rank the character's first wands, I'm pretty sure it will be a pretty successful video since you would be the first one to ever make a video like this and it's also very interesting, thank you if you will and I just wanted to tell you that I love your videos and I appreciate the effort you put in your research 🤍

[@siggie8610]

No point to do so because no wood and no core really is better than another

[@yvettenino1780]

Great video!

[@mayabarua6974]

Hello love your vids

[@KeTaMiTeK]

7:07 no he didnt died cause of the kiss, he just lost his soul, so he had a empty body, without thoughts, moves etc similar but not same to the longbottoms who got mentaly destroyed by bellatrix, but they still have their soul and be able to think or move themself and has charakter ( the visit from neville, as the mum gave neville the chewpaper, again in book 5)

[@gjungart]

in the books pretty much all slytherin students are described as, mean, less than intelligent, unattractive and cowardly bullies, and I just attributed that to them being children's books. Like these qualities are just shorthand for the reader to know who the bad guys are. (at least early in the series). But if you think about how many of their families may have been obsessed with keeping the bloodline "pure", well, that might be an actual genetic explanation for it, if you get my drift. Lol

[@rubyeloise01]

no that's exactly what I thought lmao, i'm always surprised when they make the pure-blooded families attractive when really they should look like the hapsburgs with all that in-breeding

[@bboops23]

Pansy Parkinson is described as Pug Faced which is meant to infer she looks inbred as pugs are extremely inbred

[@zabooza74]

Kind of stupid point. Since in breeding in Aristocracy is pretty much a fake myth to promote race mixing. If you look at pictures of them, they clearly do look better than average people, so it works. The portrayal of the Malfoys in the series as being some sort of super white haired posh Elven people just pays tribute to this fact...

[@rustystevenson5688]

I didn’t think they were unattractive.

[@RabiyaRavenclaw]

Bruh, Slytherins have like some of the most attractive characters, while there are ugly ones from other houses. Don't know what book you're reading 😂😂

[@jetfire1153red]

5:19 the shop was also where the CURSED silver and opal necklace that put Katie Bell in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries came from.

[@dominikschroder3337]

Tiere was a misconception in the video: marrying a halfblood was not considered enough to stain the bloodline. Some of the families listed in the sacred 28 married halfbloods on a regular basis, only the absolute strictest thinking families like for example the Malfoys only married other members of the sacred 28. So in fact Harry‘s children could be considered pureblood again, as he was a halfblood and his wife was a pureblood. Some families were also left out in the sacred 28 because of their pro muggle views, for example the potters. They were pureblood until James married Lilly, but weren‘t listed in the sacred 28, as some of the potters worked actively against anti muggle laws.

[@karlrovey]

To be considered pureblood, you needed three generations of wizards on each side.

[@Harry-Hartmann]

A Very Good Video 👌🏻👍🏻

[@shepwillner7507]

At the end of this video, you asked viewers if they learned anything new, my reply is Yes, I did learn a few new things. 1. I learned how far back the Gaunts, Voldemort's mother's lineage, went--all the way back to the 17th century to a witch with that name. As Dumbledore explained in Book 6, Half-Blood Prince, the Gaunts once were very wealthy, but their tendency to interbreed and extravagant lifestyle led to their becoming penniless, as we also saw in that book: they ended up living in a hovel; 2. I also learned about the ancestry of Ollivander's family and their involvement in creating wands for wizards: all the way back to earlier than 382 AD. Frankly, though, if Ollivander did come to Britain with the Romans as this video suggested, then this emigration had to have occurred either during the 1st century BC or afterwards, under Emperor Hadrian; 3. Clearly, some of the Sacred 28 Wizarding Families either hated their inclusion in the directory while other families disliked their exclusion; 4. The pure-blood BS sounds more like an attempt to defend their so-called pure-bloodlines, but as any historian could tell you, the tendency to interbreed among royalty and noble families typically leads to mental instability and the royal disease, aka hemophilia. 5. Related to the pure-blood BS, there are some parallels to to the Muggle world of the Nazis' belief in pure blooded Germans, aka the Aryan "race".

[@brandonhey7797]

pretty sure the Nazi ideology is where Rowling was taking inspiration from

[@attitudeproblem6462]

I quickly noticed the parallel between Hitler having Jewish ancestry and Tom Riddle himself being a "mudblood".

[@beastieber5028]

Happy new year to you

[@maikejahn9130]

Nice video. Kingsley Shacklebolt was prime minister for much longer until Hermine becomes prime minister if you view the cursed child as canan. (which I don´t)

[@infoaviation3619]

Nor do I!

[@Atingsueee]

@@infoaviation3619 why is that?

[@100StepProgram]

What’s the cursed child? Sounds like a cursed story that doesn’t exist and should never be mentioned

[@maikejahn9130]

@@100StepProgramit´s a play written by the HP author, it plays 19 years after the end of the battle of Hogwarts. It follows Harry and Ginny's son Albus. It´s more like bad fan fiction in my opinion tho.

[@brandonhey7797]

@@maikejahn9130 that's exactly what it is. all the characters don't act like they do in the canon, Time-Turners are brought back SOMEHOW despite literally all of them being destroyed, and Voldemort has seggs, when that makes no sense at all

[@midiarum693]

Have you done some compilations? I love falling asleep to these vids and would like some longer ones like this

[@paraescucharrap]

Awesome video

[@Yeni-fa-fa]

I am working on a fanfic that focuses on the Avery Family- mainly because less is known. I’d love any tips people have found on the Avery’s.

[@hangeishot7919]

Harry Potter Theroy. One of your best videos.

[@jim9667]

As a Muggle myself, I can see why you would want to keep pure bloodlines if your children's level of magical abilities could well depend on how pure their blood is.

[@melissamoyer8103]

That has no correlation in actuality. Just in pure blood ideology. Take Hermionie vs Draco or Ron both boys are pure bloods each directly from 2 different of the S28 and she a “muggle born” and she has more ability than both. Though I believe that muggle norms are descended from squibs cast out by pure blood families. The gene is probably recessive for magic thus occasionally skips a person or is carried and pops up at random. Or in the case of pairing where both parents are carriers of the gene (as is usual for magical families to mix with other magic families) then it’s normal for the recessive gene to continue. Magical genetics would be fun to explore

[@laevateintechnology5634]

True

[@asat9360]

Can you do a vid on top 7-10 powerful wizards in harry's year

[@theoldproject7394]

Imagine a Hogwarts Tv show, where we just see the day to day life of students and the drama they go through.

[@merafirewing6591]

That's what Harry Potter should've been instead of eight movies.

[@lordheath3710]

i honestly thought that Zabini would be the last on the list because of some of my other thoughts but this clearly answered my question

[@ikmwrime29sorryaira60]

May I suggest listening to this with warm tea (It doesn't matter what kind of tea) and a cozy blanket

[@ZluXzz]

Barty Crouch wasn't given the dementors kiss because he killed his father. He recieved the dementors kiss because scared little Fudge (Minister for magic) refused to enter the castle without having dementors with him, despite Minervas objections on dumbledors behalf. (Book 4 - The Goblet of Fire - Chapter 36 - almost halfway in)

[@patrickmcglonejr8163]

Neville was my favorite in Deathly Hollows part 2. I just wish we got the chance to see his Grandma whoop on some Death Eaters like in the book.

[@Warthlock]

Thank you for begin awesome and doing this ❤️🙏🏻

[@jennifervan75]

I laughed when one of the family's name was Parkinsons. I was not expecting that

[@joshuas2601]

I would like to see a film series about the first war, maybe some Death Eater perspective.

[@finleykibble7249]

That’s what there doing

[@joshuas2601]

@@finleykibble7249 Really? I’m afraid I’ve yet to have heard of it?

[@finleykibble7249]

@@joshuas2601 I meant I think that’s what there doing

[@joshuas2601]

@@finleykibble7249 Ahhh. Well I certainly hope that you are correct.

[@kongenerkasper]

I Thought that the Sacred 28 list was only limited to the British wizarding community and not other wizarding communities like the American, French, Bulgarian etc. however, people do migrate and inmigrate all the time, so that these 28 families can trace their bloodlines back to other countries and wizarding communities do make sense. but i always understood this list to be only regarding the 28 families of britain with 100% pure bloodline.. well.

[@robertgronewold3326]

Yeah, the list is Britain centric. And it's only the 28 families that were 'approved' by the author of being pure blood. The Potters were too muggle supporting to be included, for example.

[@benjamintic3653]

I mean Lestrange is actually a french bloodline so I think that confirms its worldwide wizarding community.

[@ottokarl5427]

@@benjamintic3653 The Malfoys aswell, right? But I guess at the point the list was made those families where well established enough in Britain to count as "british".

[@VarjoPira]

When in doubt, I find retracing my steps to be a wise place to be.

[@seantodd8875]

During the Carrows' time at Hogwarts, Defense Against the Dark Arts was not taught, as you state at 5:55. The class was The Dark Arts.

[@HarryPotterTheory]

They reshaped it in to just 'Dark Arts', true, but it was still essentially the same course.

[@fishingpro64]

If Neville had his parents he probably would’ve been a badass

[@joshuacooley1417]

So if there is a "wizarding gene" making magic genetic, doesn't this mean that the pure bloods kind of have a point. Not in hating muggles, but in the idea that intermarriage with muggles actually does dilute magical power and lead to more chance of producing squibs etc?

[@dtdeeli]

Valid Statement. Also the "good side" is racist supremacy too, so yeah....

[@lepifience6601]

I love how much stuff I DONT KNOW about HP. All this content is madd interesting 🤓🤓😂

[@ebeckman1011]

Kingsley Shackleboat was NOT one of the first members of the Order of the Phoenix. In fact he didn't even become a member until the summer before Harry Potter's 5th year at Hogwarts. Sirius Black tells us this at dinner on the night of Harry's return to the wizarding world in #12 Grimmauld Place

[@harrie1340]

Happy new year All!

[@Phoenix-pm2qr]

Slytherin was correct though - during his life muggles would try to kill wizards. However, looking back the idea is now outdated. But he had correct thinking and fear of muggle borns hurting his school which he worked so hard to build back in that era.

[@googleuser7454]

Yes. I think people forget that possibility of muggleborns conspiring against the wizarding world in those days especially since we know some wizards and witches (ironically Malfoys) did fight alongside Muggles for various reasons. Or what if the parents of the child feared their powers and ratted them out. It was war and conflict. And even in the modern era, the wizarding world could be exposed and endangered by a careless, radical or vindictive muggleborn one day (not likely, but possible)

[@chrismath149]

People in the MA did not believe in witchcraft (very broadly summarized) - it was even seen as as superstition (thanks Edward Gibbon, Hollywood, rabid atheists (not an attack on atheism in general but merely an observation that some people should listen to historians, not scientists and comedians when it comes to history). Those who burnt people as witches (men and women) were persecuted as murderers in medieval times. Witch hunts began in the early modern period (roughly after 1450). And if catholics did find a witch and she believed in God she was fine - because after all magic was made by God so why persecute them. That was pretty much the opinion of people at the time.

[@nicholaspierce2703]

Thank you... i was always wondering how the chamber was never discovered when the had the plumbing put in...

[@thomaslevy7249]

I clicked on this video to tell you that the thumbnail has been in my recommended videos for awhile, and seeing it from the corner of my eye, many times I tought that that potion bottle is Ironman.

[@DC-MarvelGirl1997]

Ironically, I was going to do a video on this very topic, until I saw this video got posted.

[@HeartlessRandomguy]

No! Barty Crouch Jr. Wasn't killed, but did lose his soul. That's how the Dementor's Kiss works. As Remus Lupin explained, as long as your heart and brain continue to work, you'll continue to live, that is of course, if that qualifies as living

[@Huskytabby]

Video idea for you to do: What additional effects do spells have that are not seen in the movies? For instance, what else can the patronus charm do besides ward off dementors?

[@danniellebeatrix4613]

i've been waiting for a video like this!! amazing!! also wasn't Ursla Black (nee Flint) the mother of Sirius Black II not Sirius Black III? As in Sirius Black II was Orion Black's grandfather- Orion married his second cousin Walpurga Black (Sirius Black III/Padfoot and Regulus' Parents)

[@carmellujan9797]

I also had question this statement…if he says stands then sirus was the son of finnius. Which is not the case

[@onic7878]

13:08 this made me laugh idk why😂

[@dv_nightshade8269]

NOTT much is known about the "Nott" family

[@willyt1170]

Ominis gaunt the goat

[@TheRedComyn]

Another great video. I'm Slytherin, and one of my favorite minor characters in Harry Potter is Theodore Nott.

[@attackofthejackolanterns8765]

Slytherins aren’t real

[@alexbakhshov4819]

@@attackofthejackolanterns8765 what do you mean

[@attackofthejackolanterns8765]

@@alexbakhshov4819 I see people commenting about “I’m a ravenclaw” “ I’m a hufflepuff” but like… none of those are real so how are they in those houses

[@alexbakhshov4819]

@@attackofthejackolanterns8765 we are talking about. A world with magic obviously nothings going to be realistic. you can get sorted on potter more though.

[@aleckcain4142]

What's howarts like?

[@adamtreichel7983]

Nice video but you forget Rabastan Lestrange

[@jamesadams2973]

Carrow didn't teach "DEFENCE against the dark arts", just "dark arts".

[@kinagrill]

I wonder if Purebloods see muggleborn as acceptable marriage partners (albeit yucky) because they are technically not muggles and thus not 'muddy' for the bloodline. Otherwise I wanna know what humans started out as Wizards originally. Like the origins of where magic came from, who had it originally, and how it spread. Or maybe Magic is both a bloodline thing, but also a natural 'chance thing' for those with some sort of magic-heritage blood back in the familyline? I also wonder if magical-inclined people is affected somewhat differently from inbreeding compared to normal mugglefolk... as in some disfigurement seems to still pop up, but there's also vindictiveness, lack of empathy, etc. Like maybe the magic within them itself twists a bit and thusly this effect?

[@zachwoolley6104]

Here’s an idea for a topic for you what would’ve happened if harry have used the mirror that series gave him in book 5 to see if serious had been kidnapped instead of using the fire

[@johnathantufano8068]

it makes sense that voldemort would leave he's child to an pure-blood that possible servant him knowing him because even tho a lot of fans don't like the curse child you have too agree at least it's an look at what's happen after deadly hollows

[@melissamoyer8103]

Having children is the ultimate for of immortality a part of you will always live on. Of course Tom would see this as a backup plan. I always excepted it to come out eventually. I’m shocked he didn’t intentionally make her into a living horcrux like Nagini. But I love that all the voldey followers conveniently forget that Tom riddle was a half blood himself born to an in bred witch and a muggle.

[@johnathantufano8068]

@@melissamoyer8103 also i know tom is a half blood I've seen the books and I know how the blood status thing works too

[@Likexner]

What?

[@johnathantufano8068]

@@Likexner what?

[@KingoRichie1990]

How did Sirius's family react to him being sorted into Gryffindor?

[@raihan8892]

very badly

[@janetshade4659]

He ran away from home aged about 15-16 and went to live with the Potters during the school holidays.

[@Vrindavan82]

Can you please do some research on the Snape family

[@DrakusWolfChild]

Barty Crouch jr. was not killed by the Dementor's kiss. He had his soul sucked out. Barty Crouch jr. is technically still alive.

[@francisgrizzlysmit4715]

nope knew all this before nice video though

[@themartinebunny]

Sirius Black's parents were Orion and Walburga black. They were second cousins.

[@MRVAANY87]

If Hermione was turned half cat what if one use poly juice to boost magical potential like half human half Phoenix since they are immortal maybe u would have a resistance or imunite to killing curse

[@henry7001]

First time hearing about this hypothesis, so I’m quite curious to see what HP experts have to say about it.

[@paulyb7267]

​ @HarryPotterTheory I wish you could've at least mentioned the Potter family in this video. The Potters were, for many generations, Pure-blood, up until the birth of Harry Potter in 1980, but they were excluded from the Sacred 28 due to their egalitarian stance on blood purity. Henry Potter (known as Harry to his friends), served in the Wizengamot from 1913 to 1921. He condemned the Minister for Magic at the time, Archer Evermonde, for forbidding the magical community from helping the Muggles fighting during the First World War. His outspokenness on behalf of the Muggle community, along with the fact that Potter is also a relatively common surname in the Muggle world, led to the exclusion of the Potter family from the 'Sacred 28' list. Despite being branded "blood traitors" for their openness to Muggles, the Potters were considered a respectable family with a certain status, on a par with others such as the Macmillans, the Longbottoms and the Prewetts. This is the reason why Dorea Black (born into the House of Black) wasn't disowned for marrying Charlus Potter. This is in stark contrast to Cedrella Black (Arthur's mother) who was disowned for marrying a Weasley (Arthur's dad).

[@HarryPotterTheory]

This video is about the Sacred Twenty-Eight, a list that they aren't on

[@paulyb7267]

@@HarryPotterTheory Yeah I know but you could've at least talked about how many other pure-blooded families such as the Potters, the Crabbes and the Goyles were not listed, or about how the Ollivander family made the list despite Garrick Ollivander's mother being Muggle-born prior to the lists publication. It would show how biased the creators of the list were.

[@chesterdamolester6990]

World's smallest violin.

[@infoaviation3619]

@@paulyb7267 You should know that this list was made much-much before the magical world we know, before the fantastic beasts as well, so you can't talk about this generation

[@paulyb7267]

@@HarryPotterTheory Also, can you make a video explaining why the Potters aren't on the list (in order to give the fans answers)?

[@bobfg3130]

There were no pureblood families. The Weaselies said that they had Muggle ancestors which pretty much puts into question the other families ancestry. The Malfoys were a pureblood family since the late 1700s since the statute of secrecy was put in place. I think the Blacks and Lestranges were purebloods since the middle ages. The Gaunts were said to be descendants of Salazar Slytherin although I wonder about other ancestors they might have had. Also, I wonder about Salazar Slytherin being a pureblood himself. If we go back far enough, Salazar probably had Muggle ancestors.

[@kxden3961]

I feel like, because Voldemort descends from Salazar, Salazar would have been half blood just like Harry and Voldemort.

[@brandonhey7797]

@@kxden3961 not necessarily

[@joeyxcorvusy]

Excuse my not knowing, but I'm a rather casual Harry Potter enthusiast. Where does all this lore come from? Is it mostly fan fiction, completely originally so, or is it all based on "official" sources, and if so what sources? Thanks.

[@RabiyaRavenclaw]

The Wizarding World website

[@raphaeldavin9642]

The fact that the pure-blood wizarding families being related to each other and some of them practice inbreeding in order to maintain their blood purity is very similar in real-life where many royal and noble families often practiced incest in the past (with the most notable cases the Ptolemaic and Habsburg dynasties) in order to retain their power and influence as well make them related to each other, especially in Europe. The idea of the wizards and witches began to marry muggles or muggle-born wizards/witches also similar where it's more common for the royals and nobles today to marry a commoner due to the dangers of inbreeding as the result of the intermarriage between the families.

[@mikeyfrederick1232]

I feel the word "sacred" has a whole other meaning when you think of all the inbreeding that went on in pure blood families lol ya know? The lesson here kids is don't marry your cousin..

[@robertgronewold3326]

Also maybe that the Pureblooded wizard families might want to start having more children. Having one or two doesn't produce very good breeding pools if you're only going to marry certain people.

[@maksimilian528]

@@robertgronewold3326 i don't think the amount of people changes anything

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@maksimilian528 It does in such a small community. The wizards from the strictly pureblood families often only have just enough children to replace themselves, and then look down on anyone marrying out of that norm.

[@maksimilian528]

@@robertgronewold3326 i guess that makes sense.

[@Sumschmuck]

Unless you're rich enough to get away with it like thw rothschild family

[@Automalice]

7:43 Walburga Black is Sirius' mother, Ursula Black was Sirius II's mother - different characters :)

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

My dyslexia giving me a laugh with the title: "the scared 28" 🤣

[@shad3115]

Funny how they thought pure-bloods were superior since many of the strongest wizards and witches we know aren't pure-blooded.

[@Dolores.Umbridge]

yeah. voldermort himself is half blood 💀💀

[@jamesprince1597]

Do we know anything about the Prince family line? I understand Severus Snape was related

[@rochrich1223]

There would have to be a clan head to control who could and who couldn't use the name. Serious's Mother, while willing to disown family, she couldn't stop him from remaining a Black.

[@kingofrivia1248]

Sooooo i know what jk rowling wants to be the lore but arent they right? Wouldnt pure bloods be more powerful?

[@cheetah219]

What's interesting is that theoretically 28 families from a 1000 years ago should be enough to have a wizard population flourish based in current progeny and genealogy theories ( basically the current theory is that everyone if European descent shares a common ancestor from about 1000 years ago, with most sharing relationships with the past King John of England. Obviously wizards/witches live for much longer, and have 3 to 4 great Wizarding wars but it almost appears magical families came out of nowhere 1000 years ago. What is the source and discovery of magic, why does it randomly show up in muggle born families...and obviously there are pure blood lines who have squibs (hence why longbottom family were afraid Neville was one). This all makes me think that the reason why purebred families value magical purebred is because there is a belief you will not lose magical Prowess with pure bloodlines but from my recollection I don't think it's ever been explained what the source of magic is. If muggles can randomly show signs of magic...how does this manifest and is that a sign of a new potential pure bloodline after a few generations? Or did all bloodlines start as magical and overtime lose their magical properties. Are muggles actually just squibs? And above all else, why did muggles win over wizards...why did the global magical community agree to go into hiding and not enslave muggles. So many questions that I'm sure some are answered

[@maksimilian528]

I doubt that all of those families are a 1000 years old. It's never mentioned how old they all are, but i doubt they are all that old. And about that muggle enslavement thing. In PS Hagrid says it's better for wizards to hide, or else it would be problematic. Also wizards can't just enslave muggles. That's what sparked the war between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who wanted magical people to rule.

[@bryanfan3175]

not only that, pretty sure the wizards went into hiding because of the lynching of witches, which everyone knows of. However, who knows why they decided to go into hiding considering civilizations before the middle ages use to view witches and wizards as somewhat like sages that were powerful.

[@shepwillner7507]

You ask really good questions, Cheetah 219. Perhaps I can answer one of them: The source or discovery of magic. One such source could be traced back to the time of Egyptian Pharaohs, whose viziers or magicians gave us the word "wizard". You might recall how Ramsses the Great's court magicians had a duel with Moses and Aaron in the Bible with respect to whose staffs and serpents were stronger: Moses's and Aaron's serpent won that duel when their serpent ate the Pharaoh's serpent. That said, I would not be surprised if magic and wizardry went back further into prehistory than this Biblical story. For example, one has to be able to account for the presence of Merlin: he was the famous court magician in the King Arthur tales. Where did he, Morgana, and the Lady of the Lake come from, a line of Druids? As for why the global wizarding community went into hiding, one of those reasons was described Book 7, the Deathly Hallows: an International Degree of Secrecy issued in the mid-17th century, which in turn led to the creation of the Ministry of Magic, its location beneath the streets of London, and almost every wizard going into hiding before emerging in the first 2-3 decades of the 20th century. I have two questions for you: 1. How exactly was the Ministry of Magic able to construct its HQ deep underground w/o the Mugggle world ever knowing about its construction? IOW, were cloaking and Obliviate spells used to that lasted just long enough for construction engineering wizards to build all those offices, corridors, and elevators? and 2. Before the start of the International Quidditch Final match, why didn't Britain's immigration authority not notice the huge number of wizards and witches apparating and flying into the country? Was some kind of spell used to Obliviate the minds of Muggle Immigration officers that allowed all those people to simply enter and leave the UK the next day after the Irish team won? Apparently, those wizards apparating or entering the UK via their broomsticks either don't possess passports, or they ignore the necessity of passports.

[@maksimilian528]

@@shepwillner7507 To answer your questions. 1. I assume the ministry used memory charms as well as concealement and protection charms. They may also use some extension charms, and with all this together the ministry is able to hide from the muggles. That's my theory. 2. What makes you think the muggles would know about magical folk traveling to the quidditch cup. But i think they do have some kind of passports for those that travel with conventional ways, as we saw in FB when Newt traveled to NY on a ship, and he had a passport (i think). And also i'm not sure they apparated at all. I think most witches and wizards used portkeys to travel to UK. At least the weasleys used one.

[@melissamoyer8103]

Marriage between close families like cousins kept the lines from properly flourishing. There are far less magical people than regular humans and while more difficult they are still vulnerable to muggle warfare items like swords, arrows, bullets and bomb. They’d put up a hell of a fight but would eventually be overwhelmed. People fear what they don’t know and can’t control and magic falls into that category for muggles so while I doubt and real witches or wizards were killed during the hunts back in the day it would be enough to drive the population further into secrecy if they were afraid to live being hunted just because they helped their neighbors. For all we know the ministry could’ve began in a small underground basement with the use of extension and silencing charms and grew extensively over time and became more modernized as was necessary in time. I doubt it was done in a few weeks. Afterall even Rome wasn’t built in a day 😏

[@leonax8577]

07:40 Hold up weren’t Sirius parents called walburga and Orion? I also remember them being related and all

[@brandonhey7797]

they were, and they were cousins of some kind

[@DFerro-kb9qh]

Hey I have a question what could be a nice subject for one of your vid’s Are the three games from the goblet of fire, the same games they play every tri wizard tournament? Actually I don’t think so. But what are other games that have been played in all those 350+ tri wizard tournaments? Do you have any examples? I don’t think the games are always the same!

[@morganmursewick935]

I would love to see this

[@infoaviation3619]

They aren't same, or it would be so obvious what is going to happen.

[@DFerro-kb9qh]

@@infoaviation3619 so that leaves my other question. What are examples of these games?

[@infoaviation3619]

@@DFerro-kb9qh well, if I tell the truth, I was born in the muggle world, however no one dreamed before the goblet of fire came out that there would be such games such taskes played. To answer your question precisely however, I think there might have been a dueling competition. Or a quiz, with some demon asking you questions after you have eeached a particular position of the game. I however suspect that the maze is always the same, with diffrent obstacles each time. And the possibilities are endless.

[@DFerro-kb9qh]

@@infoaviation3619 so again, you don’t know? Of course i also have ideas about which games. Thanks for guessing, but i can do that as well. Your input was very valuable man, twice