Violet had been looking at the pictures and surmised they had something to do with the founder of her House, so she was interested in where this lesson was going. But she was not particularly interested in the Sacred Twenty-eight.

"That was the list published in the Pure-Blood Directory back in the 1930s, wasn't it? So those were the families that were considered pure-blood back then," Violet observed. "But there were families who were pure-blood who were left off that list, not because of their blood status but because of their views on Muggles. So it wasn't really accurate."