Potter family

The **Potter family** is a canonical pure-blood wizarding family in Britain.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Potter family** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
The Potter family can trace its ancestry to the 12th-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, nicknamed "the potterer"; his oldest son Hardwin Potter moved to Godric's Hollow and married Iolanthe Peverell.

## Non-canonical information

### *A Godfather's Promise*

In this story, the Potter family is said to be the oldest in Britain, going back to an old Roman patrician family *gens Poteria*, and has always been involved in muggle military affairs. A Lucius Poterius Magnus was one of the few patricians who allied with Caesar, and his grandson was given the command of the invasion of Britain under emperor Claudius and was named governor of the province. Later, the family was heavily involved in the building and running of the British Empire, which made them wealthy and major shareholders in various muggle companies. The family's coat of arms is black on red, an Iceni Black dragon, roaring and spouting fire, in front of two crossed gladius swords.

By an old agreement with the muggle government and Gringotts, House Potter has the unique right to "open a business in Diagon Alley and Lombard Street at the same time" – a right that is only transferable through inheritance, and which makes them without comparison the richest family in Magical Britain; this is likely part of the reason that the men of the Potter family has never taken consorts.

According to Sirius Black, the Potter and Longbottom families have been "stout allies since the founding of Hogwarts".

### *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*

Here, the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter is said to have been "one of the First Families to be recognized in the British Wizengamot". James' father Charlus Potter was the architect of the Great Alliance, a political powerhouse of several Light-sided and Neutral Houses that still stands. The family crest is a griffin spreading its wings above two swords, which are pointing diagonally to the left and right respectively; on the door of the Family Vault (but not on the signet ring) there is a letter P on the chest of the Griffin.

## Family members

#### Canonical

* Albus Severus Potter, son of Harry
* Charlus Potter
* Dorea Potter née Black, married to Charlus
* Euphemia Potter, married to Fleamont
* Fleamont Potter, son of Henry
* Ginny Potter née Weasley, married to Harry
* Harry Potter, son of James
* Henry Potter
* James Potter, son of Fleamont
* James Sirius Potter, son of Harry
* Lily Luna Potter, daughter of Harry
* Lily Potter née Evans, married to James

Before the canonical parents of James were revealed, it was commonly thought that he was the son of Charlus and Dorea, and this concept is still used in many stories. Exactly how Charlus is related to the rest of the family is not known, but he is likely a cousin of some degree to Fleamont (who is at least ten years older than Charlus' wife Dorea, and does not seem to have had a brother).

#### Para-canonical

* Richard Potter, father of Charlus (and thus contra-canonically grandfather of James)
* Victoire Potter née Vigouroux, Richard's wife and mother of Charlus

#### Contra-canonical

* Luna Lovegood, married to Harry
* Albus Xenophilius Potter, son of Harry and Luna
* Lily Selene Potter, daughter of Harry and Luna
* Rose Potter, alternate personality developed by Harry's female form
* Lord William Potter, family head "around the Lionheart's reign" (i e the 1190s)
* Heather Snape was an alias used by Harry while fighting crime and monsters in Japan during the summer of 1996.

* It is not known if Victoire, daughter of Harry and Fleur Delacour, should be counted to the Potter family or the Delacour family, or perhaps the Black family. Similarly, it is not clear which of his seven soul-bonded wives (beside Fleur and Ginny, they are Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Demelza Robins, Susan Bones and Katie Bell) takes the name *Potter* and which takes the name *Black*, or keep their own. (Well, Susan will presumably keep hers since there are no other Boneses left to keep it alive, but the others are uncertain; the way it is formulated, it seems only one of them can join the Potter family.)

## Family residences

#### Non-canonical

* Potter Manor
* Chateau Potter in France
* A beach vacation house in La Rochelle, France

## Family heirlooms

#### Canonical

* The Cloak of Invisibility (one of the Deathly Hallows)
* The Marauder's Map

#### Non-canonical

* The fighter plane of Charlus Potter

Various canonical objects have in various stories been named Potter family heirlooms, among them:

* The Sword of Gryffindor

## References

1. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 2
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise* Chapter 4
3. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 9
4. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 23
5. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 3
6. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 8
7. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 11
8. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 12
9. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 2 and Chapter 5
10. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 5
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 *Ignore the Dementor*
12. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*
13. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 25
14. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*
15. ↑ *The Power of Seven*
16. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 20
17. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 2
18. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 12