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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