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Lissy Longbottom · 07-04-2021, 02:47 PM

SPOILER!!: As promised, responses! A little late but...they're here! lol

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Originally Posted by astrocat

Ash picked her head off the desk and looked at Kayne (who was NOT her 'special friend', if anyone was wondering), despite her tired and sad mood. "Feeling awful today, vice president," she reported, suddenly guilty about skipping so much class. "You, on the other hand... nice outfit." He was pretty clearly doing well today. "I like the heels especially." She was cheered up, just a little bit, even managing to smile at him before putting her head on the desk again.

"The sacred twenty-eight were like, a group of British families who were still completely pureblood by the time the list was made. Like the Malfoys and um... nevermind." The Rosiers. "That's why they were called sacred, I guess." More like the scared-of-muggles twenty-eight. She picked her head up off the desk to be heard more clearly. "Do they still exist? That was like, a super long time ago. Its hard to see how anyone could be completely pureblood anymore." Which made Rosier extra extra dumb, because he was probably related to muggles as well.

Ash put her head back on her desk (AGAIN), not able to see why the professor was in such a good mood. The subject matter honestly seemed kind of depressing.

"Not all of them," Gabi responded to Ashley's question. "And that list was not all inclusive. If any of the pureblood families at the time were pro-muggle they were excluded. There are still plenty of pureblood families in existence," she told her.

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Originally Posted by MadAlice

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."

"Very good!" Gabi grinned at Violet - once again, she was EXTRA peppy today, and gave Violet a nod of approval before moving on to the next answer.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Claudine got her stuff ready for the lesson and was also watching everyone filter in as she did so. That’s how she noticed Heath making his way towards her. “Hi, you,’’ she told him softly and with a smile. It wasn’t long after that Reccard got things started and the Snakette gave the woman her full attention.

The Gaunt Family.

Claudine had been correct with her guess. As for the Sacred Twenty eight? Of course she’d heard of them. Her hand went up. “To expand on what Violet said… there was at least one family left off of the list due to their surname being a common Muggle one - the Potter family.’’ If you asked her, this list was a heavily biased list.

"Good job, Miss Blaze. Many families were left off the list, and Potter was certainly one, despite their ties to other families," she explained. More on THAT later...

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Phoebe gave the professor a brief grin, although the woman was FAR too happy for anyone to consider her altogether sane. This place was crazy, and happiness wasn't the going emotional state.

She waited for her first few classmates to answer what exactly the Sacred Twenty-Eight were before offering an opinion. "I think it's like a cool kids club, Professor. This is the collection of families that one snobby someone thought still retained the right blood lineage to be considered 'pureblood', but also the right attitudes and social connections. They left out pretty notable families because they didn't like their 'attitude'. What nerds."

Gabi chuckled a little at Phoebe's choice of...descriptors for the list of families included on the list. "It's true there was more than a LITTLE bias behind the article, but it's still a good place to start when studying pureblood families."

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Originally Posted by Hey Ju

Kay, so Scarlett had heard a LOT about what had happened last year, but not enough to make her TERRIFIED or anything. Then again, it was known it had been a BIG DEAL, and she knew THAT much.

She herself wasn't pureblood, but MOST of her relatives were, including her own father and his entire family, as well as half of her mother's family. It was a LOT of purebloods she was related to. A LOOOOTTTT.

Hence her agreeing with what Cambridge was saying by nodding her head, looking from the Gryffindor to the professor. Pureblood families going to great lengths to stay that way, inheritance covenants, genealogies, yep yep yep. "Yeah, it's all very detailed and some people make a big deal of it." WHICH she didn't care about one bit, but many, maaaannnnyyyyyy people in her family did. THAT didn't mean they were anti-Muggle, though ~~only a minority was~~. "You can be a pureblood, maintain the lineage and still like Muggles." She added JUST in case.

"That is true. There are many pureblood families that have nothing against muggles - they simply just have never interacted with them, and never married because they just don't come in to contact with each other," Gabi explained.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

By now long used to seeing Limpet's face turn back towards them at the start of class, Nem gave her a little nod in greeting when they saw her do exactly this. That was all, up until the moment Recard launched into her lesson.

She was making this easy. A little too easy. Nem could have provided a certain name, maybe it was even expected of them by some, but they didn't. Until Cambridge spoke, they didn't say much of anything, but then chimed in with, "They also marry internationally. More options." Which was also one of the ways you could be a true pureblood in this country and yet have a name not on that list.

Not the case for Nem's family, obviously. They and their siblings were not pureblood, as evidenced by Pax and Ezra's automatic presence in that room last year, but as far as Nem had been able to find out, they were distantly descended from at least one of those Sacred Twenty-Eight families on Jake's mother's side. Their paternal grandfather claimed Yaxley pureblood heritage too, but Nem had never found any reason to disregard that whole obscurity. Even their surname had been born with Heath. Becca was muggle-born, so nobody on her end.

There was more they could have said - an actual answer to the question, perhaps - but Nem left it at that.

"Yes, that is correct," Gabi nodded at Nemesis as they - shockingly - contributed to the lesson. She had expected them to sit quietly and threaten tipping over on their chair as they usually did. "International marriage certainly opens up the pool of dating options."

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Originally Posted by natethegreat

Kayne couldn't help but take notice of Ash's sad disposition today. Which was rather quite odd considering the girl was cheery most of the time. At least she was able to crack some form of a smile when he had joined her. "Do you need to talk later? You seem kinda upset right now, and I'd hate to see you this way. And thank you!" Kayne told her. Thank Merlin someone had noticed his outfit. The boy wore it for that exact reason after all.

Turning back to the Professor when class had fully commenced, Kayne heard the question and was rather intrigued by it. This was something that he had actually been recently reading about, which was kind of ironic. Raising a hand, the starry eyed fourth year replied by saying "The Sacred 28 were the group of the most notable wizarding families here in England. This included the Lestranges', the Blacks', and the Longbottoms' if I'm not mistaken. The author of this Pure-blood registry was widely believed to be Cantankerous Nott." Unfortunately for Kayne though, everyone else had already touched upon things that he was going to say. So there wasn't really a point in just reiterating what they were all saying; especially since he didn't really have anything more to add besides that.

"Very good! The list included many notable names of the 20th century, many of which I'm sure you're all familiar with," Gabi said with a smile.

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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy

Ohh… so that’s why Heath couldn’t guess which single historical figure tied the items on the board together. He was right in thinking they applied to more than one person… specifically the Gaunt family. Bunch of evil blood supremacists, the lot of them! An uncomfortable feeling settled in the pit of his stomach, and that feeling only got worse as he heard the question. Why were they talking about this? This felt like a topic that would’ve come up last term, so much so that painful memories came rushing back to him, and he glanced frantically around the room just to be sure Rosier and his Hoods were really gone.

He kept his gaze fixed on his desk, trying to push away his feelings on the blood status issue to focus on Professor Recard’s question, but that Gryffindor girl’s (Emmerson) comments caused his head to jerk up. He could not believe what he was hearing! Did she have any idea how that statement came across?! Saying there were purebloods who “know better than to tangle up with muggles” implied that those who do choose to associate with them are stupid or reckless for doing so, and he could not for the life of him understand why someone who’d been here last term to witness the damage caused by that line of thinking could believe that! He was beginning to understand why Aboli Song snapped at that girl a few terms ago. He was sorely tempted to do the same!

Instead, he made his feelings on the subjects known in a more factual and non confrontational way. “Some of the families, most notably the Weasleys, protested their inclusion in the Sacred Twenty-eight,” he said after raising his hand. “The Weasleys argued that they almost certainly had muggle ancestry somewhere, and that it was nothing to be ashamed of.”

"That is an excellent point, Mister Jones. There are many people who argue that there has to be some cross of muggle ancestry in their bloodlines. Many times, if the muggle ancestry was more than a few generations ago, it's left out of consideration when assigning blood status," she explained. The whole thing was far more complicated than they could cover in one lesson, ya know?

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Originally Posted by Watson

Lisa heard what Serena had said and simply went, “Ohhhhhhh.” She had forgotten about that. Her Wizarding History wasn’t as strong as her Muggle History. That was for sure. “Thanks Serena!” Bright beamy smile now. She gave Professor Recard a smile as she sat and then listened to the beginning of the lesson.

Lisa wasn’t exactly sure what the Twenty Eight were but as she listened to her classmates she began gathering information. She didn’t like Emmerson’s comment about Ash’s answer and Muggles. “Another way of looking at “better than being tangled up with Muggles” is that those pureblooded families are just hurting themselves. Eventually they’re all going to go mad because incest is a thing. Serious illnesses and afflictions can result from it.” She drummed her fingertips on desk as she commented with a deadpan expression. “Too bad their pride is jumping in front of common sense. Talk about eventual population extinction by stupidity.”

Lisa realized she hadn’t answered the Professor. “As to your question, I’ve read about it in a book but I’m not entirely familiar but based on my classmates answers…. It sounds miserable.”

Oh yikes. There was yet ANOTHER conflict brewing in her classroom - why was history of magic always so controversial? She supposed it came with the territory. "Miss Nam, let's remain civil please," she reminded her. She was just a first year after all - as for Emmerson, SHE should know better at this point...

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

So...no sword of Gryffindor today, even with Kizzy backing her up on how careful she was going to be if allowed to hold it? Disappointing, truly. Myrtle had been dead for a long time, she didn't think the ghost truly cared anymore whether they dived into her past. Instead, they were looking at....purebloods?

Uh...

Seemed like a bad idea. Emmerson was here for it.

The Third Year went and took the seat next to her bestfriend, sinking down some. Keeping her head down. Not causing trouble. Until Ashley Fox said something stupid. "Shows what you know. There's still plenty proper purebloods who go to great lengths to stay that way and know better than to tangle up with muggles." It really wasn't that hard. If a family wanted to stay purebloods, there were circles, events, things people like Ashley Fox would never be invited to and so would obviously never know.

"There's blood magic and inheritance covenants and besides that a simple genealogy search."

Duh.

“Miss Cambridge, that’s enough. I thought the events of last term had made it very clear to everyone here that muggle ancestry is something to be celebrated, NOT looked down upon,” Gabi corrected her with a warning glare before turning back to the class. ”Do not jump to conclusions. The purpose of this lesson is not to divide but to show that we are all connected. Any attempts to bring up any anti muggle rhetoric will be met with detention. No if’s, ands or buts.” The lady had spoken. Now back to the matter at hand…

“Great answers everyone! You all touched on very important bits about the so called “Sacred Twenty-Eight”,” she began. ”Essentially it was a list of so called sacred blood lines - purebloods - that were deemed elite because of their extensive history of marrying within magical families. Many families were actually left OFF that list due to their pro-muggle viewpoints, so it’s not accurate in the sense that those are the ONLY pureblood families. As many of you pointed out it is very difficult to maintain that - and many probably had muggles somewhere in their line that they chose to ignore, or they were unaware of. It is not impossible to be considered pureblood today, as Nemesis pointed out, many wizards married out of the country as well bringing in additional families.” Not to mention if there WAS muggle background but it was a number of generations back, they were usually grouped in the pureblood category to simplify matters.

“Because so many families were obsessed with this idea of pure blood, as many of you pointed out - that makes the dating pool rather shallow. Many purebloods in our history were related to other purebloods distantly. Not all, but many!”

She turned and waved her wand so a list of names appeared on the board.

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Terry Boot -- Bellatrix Lestrange
Neville Longbottom -- Ron Weasley
James Potter -- Marvolo Gaunt
Sirius Black -- Arthur Weasley
Lucius Malfoy -- Albus Potter

“Your task for the mini activity is to figure out using your textbooks if these individuals are related or not. You may be surprised at the answers! Write down your answers and we’ll go over them in about ten minutes,” she explained.

OOC: hello! I am having a WEEK yall. I was stuck at work with an emergency yesterday, we are having people over today for the holiday and to top it off I woke up to my internet being down this morning! Hence the very condensed post. I wanted to keep rolling along with the lesson but sadly I am on my phone and just this small bit has taken me all morning haha. I WILL come back and individually address each post as per usual once my internet is back up. Regardless I will be moving the lesson on in about 36 hours!

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Lissy Longbottom Potterdom Mod Book Club Mod Giant Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ferrix: GMT-6 Posts: 56,908 Hogwarts RPG Name: Moritz Schultz (#0f667e) Ravenclaw Seventh Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nancy Schultz (#ac6f77) Hufflepuff Fourth Year x11 x1	Sorry there are no individual replies, read the OOC message! curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - chicken emoji - probably @ Disney - I speak dog SPOILER!!: As promised, responses! A little late but...they're here! lol Quote: Originally Posted by astrocat Ash picked her head off the desk and looked at Kayne (who was NOT her 'special friend', if anyone was wondering), despite her tired and sad mood. "Feeling awful today, vice president," she reported, suddenly guilty about skipping so much class. *"You, on the other hand... nice* outfit." He was pretty clearly doing well today. "I like the heels especially." She was cheered up, just a little bit, even managing to smile at him before putting her head on the desk again. "The sacred twenty-eight were like, a group of British families who were still completely pureblood by the time the list was made. Like the Malfoys and um... nevermind." The Rosiers. "That's why they were called sacred, I guess." More like the scared-of-muggles twenty-eight. She picked her head up off the desk to be heard more clearly. "Do they still exist? That was like, a super long time ago. Its hard to see how anyone could be completely pureblood anymore." Which made Rosier extra extra dumb, because he was probably related to muggles as well. Ash put her head back on her desk (AGAIN), not able to see why the professor was in such a good mood. The subject matter honestly seemed kind of depressing. "Not all of them," Gabi responded to Ashley's question. "And that list was not all inclusive. If any of the pureblood families at the time were pro-muggle they were excluded. There are still plenty of pureblood families in existence," she told her. Quote: Originally Posted by MadAlice 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." "Very good!" Gabi grinned at Violet - once again, she was EXTRA peppy today, and gave Violet a nod of approval before moving on to the next answer. Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Claudine got her stuff ready for the lesson and was also watching everyone filter in as she did so. That’s how she noticed Heath** making his way towards her. “Hi, you,’’ she told him softly and with a smile. It wasn’t long after that Reccard got things started and the Snakette gave the woman her full attention. The Gaunt Family. Claudine had been correct with her guess. As for the Sacred Twenty eight? Of course she’d heard of them. Her hand went up. *“To expand on what Violet* said… there was at least one family left off of the list due to their surname being a common Muggle one - the Potter family.’’ If you asked her, this list was a heavily biased list. "Good job, Miss Blaze. Many families were left off the list, and Potter was certainly one, despite their ties to other families," she explained. More on THAT later... Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin Phoebe gave the professor a brief grin, although the woman was FAR too happy for anyone to consider her altogether sane. This place was crazy, and happiness wasn't the going emotional state. She waited for her first few classmates to answer what exactly the Sacred Twenty-Eight were before offering an opinion. "I think it's like a cool kids club, Professor. This is the collection of families that one snobby someone thought still retained the right blood lineage to be considered 'pureblood', but also the right attitudes and social connections. They left out pretty notable families because they didn't like their 'attitude'. What nerds." Gabi chuckled a little at Phoebe's choice of...descriptors for the list of families included on the list. "It's true there was more than a LITTLE bias behind the article, but it's still a good place to start when studying pureblood families." Quote: Originally Posted by Hey Ju Kay, so Scarlett had heard a LOT about what had happened last year, but not enough to make her TERRIFIED or anything. Then again, it was known it had been a BIG DEAL, and she knew THAT much. She herself wasn't pureblood, but MOST of her relatives were, including her own father and his entire family, as well as half of her mother's family. It was a LOT of purebloods she was related to. A LOOOOTTTT. Hence her agreeing with what Cambridge was saying by nodding her head, looking from the Gryffindor to the professor. Pureblood families going to great lengths to stay that way, inheritance covenants, genealogies, yep yep yep. "Yeah, it's all very detailed and some people make a big deal of it." WHICH she didn't care about one bit, but many, maaaannnnyyyyyy people in her family did. THAT didn't mean they were anti-Muggle, though ~~only a minority was~~. "You can be a pureblood, maintain the lineage and still like Muggles." She added JUST in case. "That is true. There are many pureblood families that have nothing against muggles - they simply just have never interacted with them, and never married because they just don't come in to contact with each other," Gabi explained. Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir By now long used to seeing Limpet's face turn back towards them at the start of class, Nem gave her a little nod in greeting when they saw her do exactly this. That was all, up until the moment Recard launched into her lesson. She was making this easy. A little too easy. Nem could have provided a certain name, maybe it was even expected of them by some, but they didn't. Until Cambridge spoke, they didn't say much of anything, but then chimed in with, "They also marry internationally. More options." Which was also one of the ways you could be a true pureblood in this country and yet have a name not on that list. Not the case for Nem's family, obviously. They and their siblings were not pureblood, as evidenced by Pax and Ezra's automatic presence in that room last year, but as far as Nem had been able to find out, they were distantly descended from at least one of those Sacred Twenty-Eight families on Jake's mother's side. Their paternal grandfather claimed Yaxley pureblood heritage too, but Nem had never found any reason to disregard that whole obscurity. Even their surname had been born with Heath. Becca was muggle-born, so nobody on her end. There was more they could have said - an actual answer to the question, perhaps - but Nem left it at that. "Yes, that is correct," Gabi nodded at Nemesis as they - shockingly - contributed to the lesson. She had expected them to sit quietly and threaten tipping over on their chair as they usually did. "International marriage certainly opens up the pool of dating options." Quote: Originally Posted by natethegreat Kayne couldn't help but take notice of Ash's sad disposition today. Which was rather quite odd considering the girl was cheery most of the time. At least she was able to crack some form of a smile when he had joined her. "Do you need to talk later? You seem kinda upset right now, and I'd hate to see you this way. And thank you!" Kayne told her. Thank Merlin someone had noticed his outfit. The boy wore it for that exact reason after all. Turning back to the Professor when class had fully commenced, Kayne heard the question and was rather intrigued by it. This was something that he had actually been recently reading about, which was kind of ironic. Raising a hand, the starry eyed fourth year replied by saying "The Sacred 28 were the group of the most notable wizarding families here in England. This included the Lestranges', the Blacks', and the Longbottoms' if I'm not mistaken. The author of this Pure-blood registry was widely believed to be Cantankerous Nott." Unfortunately for Kayne though, everyone else had already touched upon things that he was going to say. So there wasn't really a point in just reiterating what they were all saying; especially since he didn't really have anything more to add besides that. "Very good! The list included many notable names of the 20th century, many of which I'm sure you're all familiar with," Gabi said with a smile. Quote: Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy** Ohh… so that’s why Heath couldn’t guess which single historical figure tied the items on the board together. He was right in thinking they applied to more than one person… specifically the Gaunt family. Bunch of evil blood supremacists, the lot of them! An uncomfortable feeling settled in the pit of his stomach, and that feeling only got worse as he heard the question. Why were they talking about this? This felt like a topic that would’ve come up last term, so much so that painful memories came rushing back to him, and he glanced frantically around the room just to be sure Rosier and his Hoods were really gone. He kept his gaze fixed on his desk, trying to push away his feelings on the blood status issue to focus on Professor Recard’s question, but that Gryffindor girl’s (Emmerson) comments caused his head to jerk up. He could not believe what he was hearing! Did she have any idea how that statement came across?! Saying there were purebloods who “know better than to tangle up with muggles” implied that those who do choose to associate with them are stupid or reckless for doing so, and he could not for the life of him understand why someone who’d been here last term to witness the damage caused by that line of thinking could believe that! He was beginning to understand why Aboli Song snapped at that girl a few terms ago. He was sorely tempted to do the same! Instead, he made his feelings on the subjects known in a more factual and non confrontational way. “Some of the families, most notably the Weasleys, protested their inclusion in the Sacred Twenty-eight,” he said after raising his hand. “The Weasleys argued that they almost certainly had muggle ancestry somewhere, and that it was nothing to be ashamed of.” "That is an excellent point, Mister Jones. There are many people who argue that there has to be some cross of muggle ancestry in their bloodlines. Many times, if the muggle ancestry was more than a few generations ago, it's left out of consideration when assigning blood status," she explained. The whole thing was far more complicated than they could cover in one lesson, ya know? Quote: Originally Posted by Watson Lisa heard what Serena had said and simply went, “Ohhhhhhh.” She had forgotten about that. Her Wizarding History wasn’t as strong as her Muggle History. That was for sure. “Thanks Serena!” Bright beamy smile now. She gave Professor Recard a smile as she sat and then listened to the beginning of the lesson. Lisa wasn’t exactly sure what the Twenty Eight were but as she listened to her classmates she began gathering information. She didn’t like Emmerson’s comment about Ash’s answer and Muggles. “Another way of looking at “better than being tangled up with Muggles” is that those pureblooded families are just hurting themselves. Eventually they’re all going to go mad because incest is a thing. Serious illnesses and afflictions can result from it.” She drummed her fingertips on desk as she commented with a deadpan expression. “Too bad their pride is jumping in front of common sense. Talk about eventual population extinction by stupidity.” Lisa realized she hadn’t answered the Professor. “As to your question, I’ve read about it in a book but I’m not entirely familiar but based on my classmates answers…. It sounds miserable.” Oh yikes. There was yet ANOTHER conflict brewing in her classroom - why was history of magic always so controversial? She supposed it came with the territory. "Miss Nam, let's remain civil please," she reminded her. She was just a first year after all - as for Emmerson, SHE should know better at this point... Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo So...no sword of Gryffindor today, even with Kizzy backing her up on how careful she was going to be if allowed to hold it? Disappointing, truly. Myrtle had been dead for a long time, she didn't think the ghost truly cared anymore whether they dived into her past. Instead, they were looking at....purebloods? Uh... Seemed like a bad idea. Emmerson was here for it. The Third Year went and took the seat next to her bestfriend, sinking down some. Keeping her head down. Not causing trouble. Until Ashley Fox said something stupid. *"Shows what you* know. There's still plenty proper purebloods who go to great lengths to stay that way and know better than to tangle up with muggles."** It really wasn't that hard. If a family wanted to stay purebloods, there were circles, events, things people like Ashley Fox would never be invited to and so would obviously never know. "There's blood magic and inheritance covenants and besides that a simple genealogy search." Duh. “Miss Cambridge, that’s enough. I thought the events of last term had made it very clear to everyone here that muggle ancestry is something to be celebrated, NOT looked down upon,” Gabi corrected her with a warning glare before turning back to the class. ”Do not jump to conclusions. The purpose of this lesson is not to divide but to show that we are all connected. Any attempts to bring up any anti muggle rhetoric will be met with detention. No if’s, ands or buts.” The lady had spoken. Now back to the matter at hand… “Great answers everyone! You all touched on very important bits about the so called “Sacred Twenty-Eight”,” she began. ”Essentially it was a list of so called sacred blood lines - purebloods - that were deemed elite because of their extensive history of marrying within magical families. Many families were actually left OFF that list due to their pro-muggle viewpoints, so it’s not accurate in the sense that those are the ONLY pureblood families. As many of you pointed out it is very difficult to maintain that - and many probably had muggles somewhere in their line that they chose to ignore, or they were unaware of. It is not impossible to be considered pureblood today, as Nemesis pointed out, many wizards married out of the country as well bringing in additional families.” Not to mention if there WAS muggle background but it was a number of generations back, they were usually grouped in the pureblood category to simplify matters. “Because so many families were obsessed with this idea of pure blood, as many of you pointed out - that makes the dating pool rather shallow. Many purebloods in our history were related to other purebloods distantly. Not all, but many!” She turned and waved her wand so a list of names appeared on the board. Quote: Terry Boot -- Bellatrix Lestrange Neville Longbottom -- Ron Weasley James Potter -- Marvolo Gaunt Sirius Black -- Arthur Weasley Lucius Malfoy -- Albus Potter “Your task for the mini activity is to figure out using your textbooks if these individuals are related or not. You may be surprised at the answers! Write down your answers and we’ll go over them in about ten minutes,” she explained. OOC: hello! I am having a WEEK yall. I was stuck at work with an emergency yesterday, we are having people over today for the holiday and to top it off I woke up to my internet being down this morning! Hence the very condensed post. I wanted to keep rolling along with the lesson but sadly I am on my phone and just this small bit has taken me all morning haha. I WILL come back and individually address each post as per usual once my internet is back up. Regardless I will be moving the lesson on in about 36 hours! __________________ I'm still standin'________________________________________ better than I ever did Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid Last edited by Lissy Longbottom; 07-06-2021 at 12:11 AM.