Dark History of the House of Black - Harry Potter Explained

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’re going to be discussing the history and family tree of the Black family.

You might not know this, but Sirius Black was more than just a powerful wizard who escaped the dungeons of Azkaban.

By birthright, he was a member of one of the most powerful wizarding families in all of Britain. In fact, the Black family line can be traced back through the centuries, and was celebrated as one of the proudest pure-blood families in the world.

And by the time Sirius was born, he was one of the few male heirs that remained. Which meant his passing, in the Death Chamber on the ninth level of the ministry of magic, marked the end of the Black Family line.

But even that wasn’t really the end for them. Although the women of the family didn’t typically keep their last name after marriage, they married into dozens of other pure blood families throughout England. In some way, almost every Weasly, Potter, Lestrange, Lupin, and Malfoy could find a connection to the Blacks.

Today, we’re going to take a look at the very first recorded ancestor in Sirius’s line, and trace the history of the Black family, from Sirius’s own namesake, to the final male heirs.

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[raijyn]

Regulus, Sirius, Tonks, Remus, and Andromeda are just a few who are truly noble in the house of Black

[eddieleavitt]

In Hogwarts Legacy, if you follow the hedge mazes, there is mention of a fifteenth century Black witch, a half-blood because her mother married a muggle, but she simply saw herself as a victim of her mother and thought she was worthy of the name Black.

[scribalma_h]

If the HBO show is a success, I hope we get spin-offs based on the noble/pure-blood houses. We know people will watch the hell out of something like that.

[baystated]

Last night (prior to this video's release) my mum and I went though the papers of her family's geneology. It was very confusing. Lots of same names through generations... which even affects me personally. Lots of marriages to spouses that had the same name as others already in the family. There were earthshaking details we found in records that are not mentioned afterwards, and I also found unsupported gossip relayed to me by my mum. Real genealogies aren't created by one author for the convenience of their readers. Real genealogies are messy with lots of forgotten details and made up details. And lots of inconsistently spelled names. Having something written down wrong in the past is terribly powerful. If someone got a hold of one of my childhood birthday cards from my grandmother, they wouldn't know how to spell my name. Yep. My own grandmother.

[grec.]

When I look at these videos about Sirius I realize how sad and difficult his life was.

[Wmuthoni]

One thing that has always bemused me was that Sirius explained his relationship to the Malfoys, Tonks & the Weasleys but completely omitted Harry’s relationship to the Black family through Charlus Potter’s marriage to Dorea Black and their Son who were likely first and second cousins to Henry Potter Harry’s great grandfather and Fleamont potter his grandfather. They weren’t that far off the family tree as Dorea was the aunt to Walburga Sirius’s mother and his cousins the Black sisters. The ironic part was that Harry quickly saw and pointed out to the Malfoys relation to Sirius but missed to recognize his own family’s connection to the Blacks.

[rafaelportella]

50 points will be awarded to your House, sir! For this video is remarkably outstanding!

[thelittlemerman]

If I remember correctly, the black family had a motto Toujours Pur”, French for 'Always Pure.

[Leonardo-cwdd]

this explains why harry was able to inherit Number 12 Grimmauld place

[JKH]

Any chance we could get a history on the Weasley family? Don’t know if there’s much info on them

[wojtek]

Love this channel and rewatching Harry Potter, for what the first time in about a year,

[NoneofyourBusiness-ivpi]

NOPE, I blast Delphini from the tapestry of The Most Ancient & Noble House of Black due to not being cannon. lol 😜

[seanmcleroy]

I’d love hear how regulus discovered that it was a horcrux

[emjayee]

Headmaster Black hating the kids and his job is a HUGE nod to Hogwarts Legacy

[bettygorman]

Thanks! This was very interesting!

I often wondered. After the second war, did Harry and Ginny move into the Home he inherited from Sirius? If not, what became of a home?

[RockismyAir]

Sirius the third did not deserve to die. Movie-Bellatrix took it too far. I mean, I like HBC, but she made her way too craycray.
Also, I still do not and will not call Cursed Child canon.

[UltimateSpider]

So Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom are cousins to Sirius Black and Bellatrix Lastrange. Shocking!!

[brysontipton]

Other descendants of the House of Black are Teddy Lupin and Scorpius Malfoy.

[victorialynnstruble]

I think you made a mistake Alba stumbled door, when he was still a youth at hogwarts, was not pro muggle. In fact he supported wizard superiority and control of the muggle race and identical ideology that he shared with his later romantic interest Grindleward. It was only later in life, after Ariana's death specifical, That dumbledore changed his mentality about those things

[jadehathaway]

This is why Jacob rarely talk about his mom side of the family because he is the only one who can ensure that there was only three member that were the good wizards and Jacob is the only member of the family left