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In the Harry Potter universe is there any mention of just how many Pure blood families there are?



There seems to be quit a few pure blood families in the books. Is there any list or reference for how many there are? I'm asking because there is no mention of the family Potter other than James and Harry. Harry seems to be at least a quarter muggle if not more. Since there are so many wizards concerned with keeping the wizard lines pure (an extreme example is the Slytherin line) it seems there would be some record.



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0) Side note: an interesting fact noted by someone on the Wiki: By the conclusion of the series, the Weasley family is the only known pure-blood family to have several male heirs :)



1) There seem to be a total of at least 34 pure-blood (Mostly British) families mentioned. This should start you off: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Pure-blood_families, with this helping: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pure-blood#Known_pure-bloods (the second one has more).


Here's an incomplete list:


Blishwick
Brown
Bulstrode (Millicent was in Slytherin)
Burke

Cornfoot
Crabbe
Crouch
Flint
Gamp
Gaunt (or should they be counted as Slytherins?)
Goyle
Greengrass
House of Black
Lestrange

Longbottom (Neville) 
MacDougal
Macmillan
Malfoy
Nott
Peverell
Potter
Prewett
Prince
Rosier

Selwyn
Slytherin
Weasley
Yaxley


2) Please note that the families are all inter-related, e.g, the Black family tree shows that the following families from the above list are ALL related:


Blacks
Bulstrode (NOT on Wikia list)
Burke

Crabbe
Crouch
Gamp
Lestranges (married Bellatrix)
Longbottom (NOT on Wikia list)
Malfoys (Married Narcissa)
Macmillan
Potter
Prewett
Rosier

Weasley
Yaxley


3) As an aside, a couple of corrections to some statements in your question:



there is no mention of the family Potter other than James and Harry.



No. There was a Charlus Potter married to Dorea Black/Bolstrude on Black family tree. Also, JKR mentioned Harry's grandparents in her interviews, they largely financed anti-Death-Eater activities, and died of old age and ordinary wizarding ilnesses before Harry's parents died (on purpose, since JKR needed Harry to be alone in the world).




Harry seems to be at least a quarter muggle if not more.



Since Lily was referred to as "Mudblood", she was a full on Muggle. So Harry is at least 1/2 muggle, not 1/4 (if you don't count weird genetic drifts that implied some wizarding blood early on on Evans Muggle family - as per JKR, all Muggle born wizards have a wizard ancestor)


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