The Sacred 28

**The Sacred 28**, or **Sacred Twenty-Eight**, was an anonymous document published in the 1930s, which contained a list of 28 families still considered to be "truly" Pure-blood.

## The Sacred 28

### Made

Nott Hall, Nottinghamshire, England (most likely)

### Usage

Know which magical families are truly pure

## History

Despite being anonymously published, it was quite well known thaty Lord Cantankerous Nott Senior had written the list. His son, Cantankerous Nott Junior, was working an updated edition of the list in the 1960s, but his work was cut short when was killed in a terrorist act orchestrated by Ryan O'Grady in 1970.

### Use

The document was written so that pureblood families know which families to marry in order to maintain the purity of their blood. Apparently a family stays on the list as long as the main family is kept pure, allowing branches of a family to mate with half-bloods, muggle-borns or muggles without their family being expelled from the list.

The list is independent of the social or economic status of the families that make it up, allowing families that do not belong to the Wizengamot or that do not have their active place to be part.

House Potter was excluded for their pro-Muggle stance in the Wizengamot. It is implied by Harry Potter that House Bones was left out for similair reasons.

## List of families

1. Abbott
2. Avery
3. Black (Harry Black, the current Heir, is a Half-blood)
4. Bulstrode (Millicent and Melissa Bulstrode, the only known current members, are Half-bloods)
5. Burke
6. Carrow
7. Crouch (set for extinction)
8. Fawley
9. Flint
10. Gaunt (believed to be extinct)
11. Greengrass
12. Lestrange (set for extinction)
13. Longbottom
14. Macmillan
15. Malfoy
16. Nott
17. Ollivander (Garrick Ollivander, the only known current member, is a Half-blood)
18. Parkinson
19. Prewett (Molly Weasley, the only known current member, married into the Weasley family)
20. Rosier (extinct)
21. Rowle
22. Selwyn
23. Shacklebolt (possibly extinct)
24. Shafiq
25. Slughorn
26. Travers (set for extinction)
27. Weasley
28. Yaxley

## Families that could be part of the list

* Bones
* Doge
* Gamp
* Wilkes

## References

Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 99 - Feasts, Electives & Student Organizations (Conclusion),

"Isn't my family what, Drusilla? A member of the Sacred 28?".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 108 - Dreamscapes, Memories and Nightmares (Pt 1),

"Four of them are in the Sacred Twenty-Eight...".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 137 - The Future All Around Us, Waiting to Be Born (Pt 1),

Harry reveals his findings about Rian O'Grady in the Prince's Lair..
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 108 - Dreamscapes, Memories and Nightmares (Pt 1),

“Bones, Fawley, Shacklebolt, Abbot, and now Burke... ...Four of them are in the Sacred Twenty-Eight, I think, and the fifth one probably should have been.”.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 132 - Lords of the Wizengamot,

Sirius adopts Harry as his heir.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 53 - Team-Building Exercises (Pt 3),

"I'm a Halfblood Slytherin, Flint. Adaptation is just part of the game.".
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 17 - Interlude by the Lake Shore,

"Crouch Sr. had no surviving heirs of his own...".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 134 - The Kings of Rats,

Peter Pettigrew murders Kingsley Shacklebolt during his escape from the Ministry.
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 147 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 2),

"Uriah Travers is elderly and in ill-health, and he's likely to pass within the next few years without leaving a viable Heir. His death will mean the end of House Travers...".