Why isn't the Potter family in the pure-blood list?

This question mentions that on Pottermore there is a list of the pure-blood families (by 1930).

I don't see the Potter family in there. We know that James Potter was pure-blood so both his parents must have been also pure-blood. James was born in 1960 so his parents were born around 1930-1940.

So why doesn't the Potter family appear on the the 'pure-blood list'?

Answer

This is described elsewhere on Pottermore under the heading "The Potter Family":

Potter is a not uncommon Muggle surname, and the family did not make the so-called ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’ for this reason; the anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood.

There's also the fact that it's explicitly noted that the family is not actually pure-blooded at all, with numerous inter-marriages with muggles:

The Potters continued to marry their neighbours, occasionally Muggles, and to live in the West of England, for several generations, each one adding to the family coffers by their hard work and, it must be said, by the quiet brand of ingenuity that had characterised their forebear, Linfred.

As Hagrid points out in the Chamber of Secrets film, the concept of 'pure-bloodedness' is a complete nonsense anyway.

Hagrid: "And it's codswallop, to boot. 'Dirty blood.' Why, there isn’t a wizard alive today that’s not half-blood or less."

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