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The Potter family is a very old 1, but it was never (until the birth of Harry James Potter) at the very forefront of wizarding history, contenting itself with a solid and comfy existence in the backwaters.

Potter is a not uncommon Muggle surname, and the family did not brand the and then-chosen 'Sacred Twenty-Viii' 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. The wizarding Potter family had illustrious beginnings, nevertheless, some of which was hinted at in Deathly Hallows.

In the Muggle globe 'Potter' is an occupational surname, meaning a man who creates pottery. The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally well-dearest and eccentric man, whose nickname, 'the Potterer', became corrupted in time to 'Potter'. Linfred was a vague and absent-minded beau whose Muggle neighbours often chosen upon his medicinal services. None of them realised that Linfred'south wonderful cures for pox and ague were magical; they all thought him a harmless and lovable old chap, pottering near in his garden with all his funny plants. His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the serial of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family'due south fortune. Historians credit Linfred as the originator of a number of remedies that evolved into potions however used to this day, including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to exit a significant pile of gilded to each of his 7 children upon his death.

Linfred's eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch past the name of Iolanthe Peverell, who came from the village of Godric's Hollow. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell. In the absence of male person heirs, she, the eldest of her generation, had inherited her granddaddy's invisibility cloak. It was, Iolanthe explained to Hardwin, a tradition in her family unit that the possession of this cloak remained a hush-hush, and her new married man respected her wishes. From this time on, the cloak was handed down to the eldest in each new generation.

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

Occasionally, a Potter made it all the way to London, and a fellow member of the family unit has twice sabbatum on the Wizengamot: Ralston Potter, who was a fellow member from 1612-1652, and who was a great supporter of the Statute of Secrecy (as opposed to declaring war on the Muggles, every bit more militant members wished to do) and Henry Potter (Harry to his intimates), who was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe, and served on the Wizengamot from 1913-1921. Henry caused a modest stir when he publicly condemned then Government minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, who had forbidden the magical community to help Muggles waging the Outset Earth War. His outspokenness on the behalf of the Muggle customs was also a strong contributing cistron in the family's exclusion from the 'Sacred Twenty-Eight'.

Henry's son was called Fleamont Potter. Fleamont was so chosen because it was the dying wish of Henry's female parent that he perpetuate her maiden name, which would otherwise die out. He bore the brunt remarkably well; indeed, he always attributed his dexterity at duelling to the number of times he had to fight people at Hogwarts after they had made fun of his proper name. It was Fleamont who took the family gilded and quadrupled it, by creating magical Sleekeazy's Pilus Potion ( 'two drops tames even the almost bothersome barnet' ). He sold the visitor at a vast profit when he retired, just no corporeality of riches could compensate him or his married woman Euphemia for their childlessness. They had quite given upward hope of a son or daughter when, to their daze and surprise, Euphemia found that she was pregnant and their honey male child, James, was built-in.

Fleamont and Euphemia lived long enough to see James marry a Muggle-born girl called Lily Evans, but not to meet their grandson, Harry. Dragon pox carried them off within days of each other, due to their advanced age, and James Potter so inherited Ignotus Peverell's Invisibility Cloak.