Sacred Twenty-Eight

The Sacred Twenty-Eight were, according to the author of the Pure-Blood Directory (widely believed to have been Cantankerus Nott) the twenty-eight British families that were still "truly pure-blood" by the 1930s.

The Sacred Twenty-Eight comprised the families of:


 * Abbott


 * Avery


 * Black


 * Bulstrode


 * Burke


 * Carrow


 * Crouch


 * Fawley


 * Flint


 * Gaunt


 * Greengrass


 * Lestrange


 * Longbottom


 * Macmillan


 * Malfoy


 * Nott


 * Ollvander


 * Parkinson


 * Prewett


 * Rosier


 * Rowle


 * Selwyn


 * Shacklebolt


 * Shafiq


 * Slughorn


 * Travers


 * Weasley


 * Yaxley