Summary

• Lupin Family: Remus Lupin, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, is a renowned and brave character, with a father who banished a dangerous creature. His son Teddy also shows great skills.
• Nott Family: Similar to the Malfoys, the Nott family has a strong social standing and played a part in the Death Eater clan. Cantankerus Nott authored a biased pure-blood directory.
• Abbott Family: The Abbotts have a rich history, and while they belong to the sacred 28 pure-blood families, they don't strive for pure-blood status. Hannah Abbott, a member of Dumbledore's Army, shows bravery.

There are plenty of powerful Harry Potter families in the wizarding world, and not all of them are purebloods. The most powerful Harry Potter families contribute to the history and the lore of the franchise. Blood status and family trees are major narrative themes in Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts. After all, both Voldemort and Grindelwald's goals see a world run by pure-blooded wizards and witches with muggles in their "rightful place." Within the canon of history that J.K. Rowling has created, many famous Harry Potter family names crop up in Fantastic Beasts and the various lore-building tie-in products like videogame Hogwarts: Legacy.

The film series didn't allow for a ton of exploration of these famous Harry Potter families, however, the Max reboot TV show could shed more light on their influence. There is quite a mixture of powerful surnames in the wizarding world, from the well-known Malfoys and Weasleys to the more complicated family trees of the Lestranges or Blacks. Some families in Harry Potter have roots in the dark arts and evil wizards, while others, such as the Potters, have done quite the opposite.

20 Lupin Family

The most notable member of the Lupin family in the famous Harry Potter families list is Remus. He's a werewolf, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, and a former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Remus had a penchant for the Patronus charm and is one of the bravest characters introduced during the series.

Not a ton was revealed about the rest of his family, meaning there won't be much for the Harry Potter reboot show, but what fans know is positive. His father Lyall worked at the Ministry of Magic and banished the Screaming Bogey of Strathtully. Remus married Nymphadora Tonks, a Metamorphmagus member of the Order of the Phoenix who was also incredibly brave. Their child Teddy went on to be Head Boy at Hogwarts, showing he possessed strong skills of his own.

19 Nott Family

The Nott family of the famous Harry Potter families roster seemed to have the same kind of social standing as the Malfoys, seeing as they partook in the same Death Eater clan and were safe when the Muggle-Born Registration Commission was in effect. Proof of their strong ancestry comes from Cantankerus Nott.

This wizard was the one who was the author of the Pure-blood Directory published in the 1930s. Nott singled out the Pure-blood families and wrote a biased that placed the 28 families (The Sacred 28) listed as higher in status compared to the rest. They might not be as well-known as other families, but they have a fair bit of power.

18 Abbott Family

The Abbotts don’t appear to be a hugely powerful wizarding family by the time Harry Potter is enrolled at Hogwarts, but they do have a rich history in the world. Abbott is one of the “Sacred 28” pureblood wizard families, but they do not strive to maintain that pureblood status, unlike the families that Voldemort. By the 1930s, they married into muggle families, and by the 1990s, Hannah Abbott, a half-blood witch is a member of Hufflepuff house, loses her mother to a Death Eater attack, and becomes a member of Dumbledore’s Army.

The Abbotts traditionally make their home in Godrick’s Hollow, an old village for wizarding families, and one of her family was once a Hogwarts Heaster as his portrait hangs in the castle in several different places. American wizard historian Theophilus Abbott is also likely related to the family.

17 Macmillan Family

Ernie MacMillan was always shown as a very pompous boy who made it known how strong his roots were. He said exactly this in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where he blurted out how his ancestor line was filled with witches and warlocks centuries in the past. His role was cut to the bone for the Harry Potter movies, so hopefully, he, and his family's impact, will be shown in the Harry Potter reboot series.

Ernie was largely exempt from the extremism shown during the war due to his family, which is enough proof that his blood status protected him. This tribe on the famous Harry Potter families list also had connections to the Black family, as Sirius Black’s paternal grandmother was a MacMillan by birth.

16 Rowle Family

Like the Abbotts, the Rowle family is also on the list of 28 pureblood wizarding families. None of the family feature prominently during Harry Potter’s youth, but there is quite a bit known about their family history. Damocles Rowle was the Minister of Magic from 1718 to 1726, and several of the family over the next few hundred years were active ministry employees, including Regina Rowle, an Unspeakable.

The Rowle family is also prominent enough when Harry Potter has children that Delphini, daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort, is entrusted to a member of the family. While Delphini claims that the family only takes her on as a ward for the money, the family maintains the secrecy of her origins throughout her life, maintaining a connection to dark wizards.

15 Sayre Family

The Sayres are an interesting wizarding family because they aren’t a huge part of the original series of Harry Potter novels. They are, however, connected by various marriages to some of the oldest wizarding families in the stories like the Gaunts and the Peverells. The family is originally from Ireland but migrated to the United States, specifically New England.

Isolt Sayre founded the biggest Wizarding school in North America in the Harry Potter lore. She began Ilvermony which is where most of the characters in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, like the Goldstein sisters, learned their magic.

14 Ollivander Family

While Garrick Ollivander didn’t seem to have any power in social status, the fact remains that the Ollivander family in Harry Potter has been responsible for handing out wands to the British Wizarding world for millennia by this point. There are very few witches or wizards who didn't begin their journey with a visit to Ollivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley.

The first Ollivander to set up the wand-making business was in the year 382 BCE, meaning the entire British Wizarding world was reliant on this family. Due to this, the Ollivanders certainly had the power to influence the future of the Wizarding world since so many get their wands from them, but they seem content as wand makers.

13 Gaunt Family

The Gaunt family is no longer a powerful family by the events of the Harry Potter series, but they are descended from some very powerful wizards. They are direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin, one of the Hogwarts founders, and Cus Peverell, who originally owned the Resurrection Stone.

Those who belonged to the Gaunt family inherited the ability to speak Parseltongue and ed the Deathly Hallow down. In a case of one of the pure blood magical families trying to keep their bloodline completely pure, the Gaunt family name disappears from the Wizarding world around the 1940s, but Voldemort and his daughter are the last of the family line, though neither of them uses the name.

12 Rosier Family

While not one of the prevalent famous Harry Potter families, the Rosiers are introduced in the books, but their role in the dark arts has been further explored in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. Possibly hailing from , the Rosiers are part of the Sacred 28 pureblood families list, and through Druella Black née Rosier (mother of Bellatrix and Narcissa), the family is connected to the Black, Lestrange, and Malfoy family.

The name Rosier was first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire during which Igor Karkaroff tries to sell out fellow Death Eater Evan Rosier, only to find out that he was captured and killed by Mad-Eye Moody. Vinda Rosier in the Fantastic Beasts series is one of Grindelwald's most loyal acolytes. It's quite clear that the Rosiers have dutifully been a part of the dark part of history in the wizarding world, and their connections to other rich and high-status pureblood families prove they're one of the most powerful Harry Potter families around.

11 Parkinson Family

While her part in the books and movies was relatively minor, Pansy Parkinson comes from a powerful — and problematic — famous Harry Potter family. Pansy Parkinson was always brash about her status, along the lines of how Malfoy behaved. Her conceitedness was due to the Parkinson family including a Minister of Magic in their family tree.

Perseus Parkinson was the head of the magical government from 1726 to 1733, during which he attempted to a law that marrying Muggles was illegal. Even two-and-a-half centuries later, Pansy benefited from this heritage as her family remained upper-class and in the powerful Slytherin House. The notorious Harry Potter mean girl was given little screen time in the movies, and the new Harry Potter reboot would do well to showcase more of how her family's status has made her such an antagonistic force.