Pure bloods family tree

[Karen]

as the half blood prince touched again on pure blood, half blood and mud blood (according to some) AKA muggle born

I was wondering if anyone knew for SURE if James Potter was a pure blood, I cant remember it being said in any of the books (its never said he wasnt pure blood but never said he was as far as I can rememebr)
and I'm wondering if he was pure blood then why is it there are no other potters in the wizarding world, and never a mention of they're ever being any other potters- and if he was a pure blood surely somewhere in time he would be linked to other pure blood families

I only found out last week that if you study the histories and family trees closely even the weasleys are related to the malfoys!

so does anyone have an answer?

[Barny The Barn]

I think it was in OOTP when Sirius is talking to Harry about the Black family tree. Sirius's name was scrubbed out and Harry pointed this out to him. He said he went to stay with James blah blah and then he said that James was pure-blood and that James was an only child.

[Karen]

thankyou thats cleared alot up
BUT
I don't understand why all the other pure blood families throughout history had been all linked to one another through marriage and what not, and the potter family before James seem non existent

[SunsetG|rl]

Well I doubt there are too many pure-pure blood families left. Maybe most of them just have many generations of wizards back. As for James... His parents were for sure wizards...It is in an interview of JKR where she talks about his family.

[crystallised_pineapple]

maybe james was the last pureblood potter... i mean they are kinda dying out.... i think the crouches died out in GoF...

[Snow_Crystal]

Yeah I think you're right CP! I'm sure James was the last of the Potters.

[Tanuki]

...Then what is Harry, an Evans?

[Barny The Barn]

Duh - we're so stupid!!! Thanks Tanuki for reminding us!!!!

[crystallised_pineapple]

... i said the last pureblood potter lol...

[Chimera]

Just cos we haven't come across many Potters doesn't mean a whole lot. Could be the family was always small, and wasn't really noted for much. On the other hand maybe somewhere up the line somebody changed their name to Potter. So many possibilities. How many generations back does a muggle in the family hav to be before the descendants are considered "pure"? Maybe in the wizarding world there's some arbitrary number... Sod it, does it really matter? I thought the whole point of the books is that background is nothing without talent. As highlighted succinctly by both Hermione Granger and Sybill Trelawney.

[PaperFlowers101]

MM...Maybe Harry's grandfather had no family left till he got married.....?It's a possibility. It would make alot of sense since lily's family are muggles......and I think her mom and dad died and Petunia refuses to admit relations to the boy, so the rest of mom's family wouldn't exactly be looking for him....

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Okay well, you can keep your talk up and all, but this thread is called "Pure-bloods family tree" so I'm deciding to pop this is here.

On JKR's website she says that Molly's maiden name was Prewett, and that as we can see she lost some relatives in the First War of LV.

So really, this extends the family even more, out into the Prewetts.

What I'm meaning to say here, is that if most pureblood families are sort of combined...
And people were looking for non-stuck up wizards and witches to marry, then it would almost make sense that quite a few the the good pureblood families married together a bit as well.

Sometime along the line you would think a Potter, being from what I judge a good wizarding family, might have married a Weasley, or a Prewett, or another of the other families?

[Bextra]

Wouldn't they have to marry their cousins and stuff? Ewwwwww that is sooo gross! I would never marry into my family, it goes against all my ethics. But my third cousin, well he's a different mater. What a hottie!

[Phinea Rogue]

Sometime along the line you would think a Potter, being from what I judge a good wizarding family, might have married a Weasley, or a Prewett, or another of the other families?

Since there're so few of them, I suppose that it's not only possible, but that it really did happen. They don't have a big choice before them (the pure-blood families), do they? I wonder why the Weasleys are considered to be blood traitors. What could they have done? They're pure bloods, but they're outsiders, why?

[Chimera]

Maybe it's as simple as they don't see blood purity as a standard to uphold in a relationship. Ie if it came to a choice: marry for love or blood they'd choose love.