Moon family

**Moon** is the surname of a large and wealthy wizarding family. There are a few branches of this family, the main branch of which lived in the Primrose Hill district of the City of London, England, for quite some time. There was also a smaller cadet branch that lived in Puddletown, Dorset, England.

Members of this family are typically pure-blood and sorted into either Slytherin or Hufflepuff House. Recent members that have attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry include Lily Moon, who attended from 1991 to 1998, and her brother Dennis, who attended from 1993 to 1998, at which point the family moved to New Zealand.

The Moon family accumulated their vast wealth and became well-known at the turn of the century through their family-owned company, Telescopeworks. Founded by Lorenzo Moon, the company was inherited by Sigmund Moon, who took the business to new heights. Sigmund Moon was so influential that he became a member of the Wizengamot and was suspected of helping Septimus Malfoy I in his conspiracy to oust Minister for Magic Faris Spavin.

The Moon family was not included in *The Pure-Blood Directory* of 1931, however, suggesting that in 1931, the Moon family were not considered a very old family, or simply that its members were not considered completely Pure-blood at the time, which is more likely. It is also possible that Cantankerous Nott, widely presumed to be the work's author, simply did not like them.

## History

### Early History

The surname Moon was first found in Devon, where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by William of Normandy for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D..

### Later History

#### 19th Century

Sigmund Moon, son of Lorenzo Moon, was born in 1862, in Puddletown, Dorset, England. Puddletown, a town in which many witches and wizards had grouped together following the introduction of the International Statute of Secrecy in 1689, was where the Moons had settled, abandoning their home in western Devon to do so. Sigmund Moon's mother was reportedly of Russian descent.

Lorenzo Moon and his wife had a total of three sons between 1860 and 1865, the eldest of which died early in his adulthood, leaving Sigmund and Pavel Moon. All three brothers were born in Puddletown. Sigmund Moon married Florence Nettle, a witch, in 1880 after leaving Hogwarts.

Sigmund Moon was chosen by his father, Lorenzo, to continue the family business, were he to pass away unexpectedly. The Moon family owned Telescopeworks, which was a leading producer of telescopes in Wizarding Britain. Moon was chosen over his other two brothers because he had a "sensible mind", according to Lorenzo.

The family moved to Primrose Hill, a neighbourhood in Camden, London to reflect Sigmund Moon's growing role in his father's company. That is where the main branch of the family would stay until 1998. Sigmund Moon and Florence Nettle had four children, Cornelius Moon, Astrea Moon, Barnabas Moon, and Phineas Moon.

Sigmund Moon inherited Telescopeworks and entered the realm of politics with an open mind and a clear head in the year 1895, when he ran a private election campaign. He was appointed a member of the Wizengamot in 1896. He became a trusted ally of Septimus Malfoy I, and probably spent a great deal of time cutting backroom deals between the Area of Commons and the inhabitants of said Hereditary seats, held by individuals like Malfoy, in order to attempt to oust Minister for Magic Faris Spavin.

#### 20th Century

Cornelius Moon, Sigmund Moon's eldest son, married Òceane Malfoy, daughter of Septimus Malfoy I, in 1907. They had one son together, Horace Moon, in 1909.

In 1923, members of the Moon family were in attendance at the wedding of Arcturus Black III, Heir to the House of Black, to Melania E. Macmillan, daughter of Ambrose Macmillan. The ceremony was so lavish that it featured over two hundred invited guests. It was so high profile that it was covered by various notable news organisations, including the *Daily Prophet* and *Witch Weekly Magazine.* Sigmund Moon gifted the newly-married couple one of his company's finest telescopes, and proudly said so in the *Daily Prophet*.

Due to a previous business venture gone terribly wrong, Cornelius Moon, the eldest child of Sigmund Moon, was instead given control of a newer business called Derwent & Company, while Phineas Moon inherited Telescopeworks.

### Recent History

Pandora Moon, daughter of Silas Moon and granddaughter of Cornelius Moon, was disowned from the Moon family by her father, Silas, after she ran off to Ireland to marry Xenophilius Lovegood in 1979. Though she was not a member of the main branch of the family, Silas considered himself responsible for her actions and was greatly embarrassed by them for quite some time.

A member of the main branch of the family, Lily Moon, was in the same year at Hogwarts as the famous Harry Potter. She was a member of Hufflepuff House. Her father, Albert Moon, was the owner of Telescopeworks when he was murdered in 1998 by Death Eaters during the Second Wizarding War. Afterwards, she and her mother, along with her younger brother, Dennis, went to go live in New Zealand.

Atticus Moon, a Death Eater, who was promised ownership of the company, money, as well as power: but only if Voldemort succeeded in creating his new world order, took Telescopeworks by force after members of the main branch of the family were forced to flee the country. He promptly ran it into the ground.

Dennis Moon, the rightful heir to the remaining wealth generated by the company, became a famous Quidditch player in his own right after leaving for New Zealand. He played in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup.

## Known Members

* Lorenzo Moon (fl. 1862) †
* Sigmund Moon (1862-1928) †, son of Lorenzo Moon
* Florence Moon (née Nettle) (1861-1922) †, wife of Sigmund Moon
* Cornelius Moon (1881-1972) †, eldest son of Sigmund Moon
* Òceane Moon (née Malfoy) (1881-1945) †, wife of Cornelius Moon
* Horace Moon (1909-1974) †, son of Cornelius Moon
* Sigourney Moon (née Bourdillon) (1911-1977) †, wife of Horace Moon
* Silas Moon (1933-1987) †, son of Horace Moon
* Antiope Moon (née Greengrass) (1932-1989) †, wife of Silas Moon
* Pandora Lovegood (née Moon), disowned, (1956-1990) †, daughter of Silas Moon
* Astrea Higgs (née Moon) (1884-1925) †, daughter of Sigmund Moon
* Bartemius Higgs (1885-1960) †, husband of Astrea Moon
* Barnabas Moon (1892-1943) †, second-born son of Sigmund Moon
* Melesina Moon (née Shepley) (1892-1955) †, wife of Barnabas Moon
* Mabel Bonham (née Moon) (1913-1993) †, daughter of Barnabas Moon
* Hazel Moon (1914-1943) †, daughter of Barnabas Moon
* Phineas Moon (1894-1969) †, third son of Sigmund Moon, Owner of Telescopeworks
* Wilma Moon (née Dawlish) (1894-1985) †, wife of Phineas Moon
* Theodore Moon (1921-1988) †, son of Phineas Moon, Owner of Telescopeworks
* Wilfrida Moon (née Stalk) (1921-1994) †, wife of Theodore Moon
* Atticus Moon (1948-), Death Eater, and son of Theodore Moon
* Albert Moon (1949-1998) †, Owner of Telescopeworks and murdered by Death Eaters
* Godeliva Moon (née Speight) (1950-), wife of Albert Moon
* Lily Moon (1980-), daughter of Albert Moon
* Dennis Moon (1982-), son of Albert Moon, international famous Quidditch Player for New Zealand

## Known Descendants

* Luna Lovegood (1981-), daughter of Pandora Lovegood (née Moon) (disowned), granddaughter of Silas Moon
* Albert "Bertie" Higgs (1941-), son of Astrea Higgs (née Moon), grandson of Sigmund Moon
* Chester Bonham (1936-1975) †, son of Mabel Bonham (née Moon), grandson of Barnabas Moon
* Delphine Bonham (1938-), daughter of Mabel Bonham (née Moon), granddaughter of Barnabas Moon
* Clara Bonham (1959-1975) †, daughter of Chester Bonham, great-granddaughter of Barnabas Moon
* Alban Bonham (1961-1975) †, son of Chester Bonham, great-grandson of Barnabas Moon

## Etymology

The Moon surname is of Norman origin, and thought to derive from a place name such as from Moyon in La Manche, or from Mohun in Normandy.