Violet felt time going by and suddenly blurted out the first Wizarding name she could think of, probably one she had heard mentioned by one of her uncles while they were sitting around after dinner drinking port.
"Gamp. The Gamp family. One of them was the first Minister for Magic" She searched her brain a moment for the name. "Ulrich Gamp." she added.

She pulled out a parchment and hastily wrote down what she remembered as she heard the professor going on to the next question.

Gamp Family

Ulrich Gamp--head of Wizangamot, first Minister for magic, 1701-1718, founded the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement

one of the Gamps must have been a magical theoretician, because Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration was named after them

There, that was something at least. She turned to her partner--Amari, she thought the girl had said--and asked, "Did you have anything?", while at the same time trying to listen with her other ear to hear what the next question had been.