While it doesn't loom large in the movies, the Sacred 28 is an integral part of the back story, the brilliant Potter lore put in place by J.K. Rowling. The story goes something like this: In the 1930s a compendium, The Sacred 28, appeared. It was claimed that it lists the 28 pureblood magical families.
From Abbott and Black through Yaxley and Weasley, the Sacred 28 was embraced by Voldemort, who, as we all know was keen on magical blood remaining pure. The Malfoys, of course, fully embrace all the pureblood hokum. Here are 10 things about the Sacred 28 that the movies left out.
10 The Potters Were Not On The List
The Potters were certainly purebloods. So why didn't they make the Sacred 28? Well, there's a bit of a mystery about that. Best we can figure out "Potter" is a common muggle name. Some speculate that the compiler merely assumed with a name like Potter, their bloodline was tainted.
It's true that, in the beginning, Draco Malfoy views Harry as on a par with his pureblood self. Harry tells him what he can do with his opinions. It was pretty much open warfare between the two after that.
9 The Weasleys Aren't Buying It
In spite of being pureblood, the Weasleys simply don't buy into the whole "purebloods can't marry outside purebloods" rule. Apart from anything else, magical families would have almost certainly died out if the rule had been strictly adhered to.
After all, Ron marries Hermione, a woman Malfoy called a "Mud Blood". That's wizard speak for tainted blood. Don't forget Arthur Weasley's fascination with Muggles. In the films, he doesn't come right out and say it, but he and his family believe marrying outside pureblood lines is a positively good thing.
8 The Thing About Kingsley Shacklebolt
Kingsley Shacklebolt was an outstanding Auror. He was part of the groups of Order of the Phoenix members who rescued Harry from 4 Privet Drive at the beginning of the movie of the same name. The movie really skips over the fact he is totally pureblood. Plus, he was charged with protecting the muggle Prime Minister when the Second Wizarding War broke out.
Shacklebolt's standing in the magical world is really glossed over in the movies. He is more or less there in the background. He and his family loom much larger in the books.
7 The Malfoys Chose Family Over Voldemort
During Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II, the Malfoys can be seen abandoning Voldemort, walking away with Draco in tow. The reason? As a member of the Sacred 28, they were determined to make certain that their bloodline continued. If Draco died, they could have kissed bye-bye to the chance of having grandchildren.
We see Draco Malfoy at the station at the end of Deathly Hallows, Part II, seeing his son on to the Hogwarts Express. What is not mentioned is that Draco married Astoria Greengrass, from another of the Sacred 28 families, producing a son Scorpius. Also, the books make it clear that Astoria is more tolerant of muggles than her in-laws would have liked.
6 How Voldemort Got So Messed Up
Voldemort's grandfather was Marvolo Gaunt. He was so rabid about preserving his family's pureblood status as the only living descendants of Salazar Slytherin that he turned on Voldemort's mother Merope Gaunt, who had fallen in love with a Muggle. Voldemort, a half-blood himself, was the result.
What the movies leave out is that Marvolo Gaunt taunted and criticized Merope, leaving her isolated and afraid. In turn, she passed this sense of anger and distrust on to her son, the young Tom Riddle. Voldemort belongs nowhere, leaving him to create a vicious and perverted worldview.
5 Hermione's Running Battle With Millicent Bulstrode
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, we get a brief glimpse of haughty pureblood Millicent Bulstrode. Her family was a well-established member of the Sacred 28. In the books, you get more of a sense of the disdain pureblood Millicent has for Hermione, a Mud Blood. There were a number of "encounters' between the two. In the books, the Bulstrodes were more like the Malfoys and the Blacks than the laid back Weasleys.
The movie did show when Hermione managed to turn herself into a cat with a Polyjuice Potion because she inadvertently used a hair from Millicent's cat, instead of Millicent herself. It's the kind of scene that movies love.
4 Ollivander Pedigree
Much is made in the movies of Ollivanders Wand Shop in Diagon Alley and its proprietor Garrick Ollivander. The scene in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in which Harry gets up close and personal with wands for the first time is endearing.
But the movies did not give us much if anything about Ollivander's back story. He was a half-blood because his mother was a Muggle-born witch. And Ollivander became one of the finest wandmakers in the world. His family ("makers of fine wands since 382 B.C.") was clearly one of the oldest of the wizarding families.
3 The Burkes
We only know about the pureblood Burkes from the dark and menacing wizarding shop Borgin and Burkes in the movies. What the movies leave out is that Caractacus Burke was one of its founders. He was also the person Harry saw in the Pensieve purchasing Salazar Slyerhin's locket from Voldemort's mother. She was alone, destitute and pregnant at the time.
And we all know how central that locket became in the search for Horcruxes. In the books, the Burkes are seen as unscrupulous and manipulative. And Caractacus was probably worse than most members of his family.
2 The Strange Lestranges
We see an awful lot of Bellatrix Lestrange in the movies. But where on earth was her husband? Rodolphus Lestrange seems nowhere to be found. In the books, he participated in the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom. He ended up in Azkaban, escaping some fourteen years later.
He loomed large in the books during the Second Wizarding War, fighting in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Battle of the Seven Potters. After Voldemort was defeated, it was back to Azkaban for Rodolphus. Oh, one other thing: In the books, Voldemort and Bellatrix have an illegitimate daughter named Delphini.
1 Molly Weasley
We get nothing of Molly Weasley's back story in the movies. She was a pureblood Prewett, whose brothers fought against Voldemort in the First Wizarding War. They were killed during that War. So fierce were they that it is said that it took five Death Eaters to finish them off.
Molly, the mother of Ron and the rest of the ginger-haired crew, certainly displayed a certain level of fierceness, especially when she finishes off Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts.
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