Bulstrode was the surname of a wizarding family. They were predominantly pure-blood,[6] and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight[1] though Millicent Bulstrode was a half-blood, suggesting that one or multiple members of the Bulstrode family had Muggle or Muggle-born spouses, parents, or grandparents.[2] They were distantly related to the Blacks, the Flints, the Crabbes and the Potters.[7]
Given that Millicent Bulstrode was a half-blood, the Bulstrode family could be another family who accepted half-bloods into their family, like the Malfoys, with whom they are also distantly related, and thus wouldn't themselves practise inbreeding with cousins.
Family members[]
- Violetta Bulstrode — wife of Cygnus Black (II) and mother of Pollux, Marius, and Dorea Potter née Black.[3]
- Millicent Bulstrode — a Slytherin student in Harry Potter's year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[4]
- Vulpecula Bulstrode — a Healer at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries in the 2010s.[5]
Etymology[]
Bulstrode is an extremely rare surname in the United Kingdom.[8] Its origin is uncertain, but it may be derived from a place name meaning either "fortress on the marsh" (from Old English burh, "fortress", and strod, "marsh"),[9][10] "bull marsh" (from Old English bula, "bull", and strod),[9][10] or "Bur's marsh" (form Bur, the name of a family, and strod).[8] Bulstrode Park is a large park to the northwest of the Buckinghamshire town of Gerrard's Cross in the English Home Counties. Bulstrode is a grumpy, anthropomorphic barge in the Railway Series books, on which the television show Thomas and Friends is based.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on Black family tree tapestry)
- Quidditch Through the Ages (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter and Me (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter (website)
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Pure-Blood" at Harry Potter (website)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and Me
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) - Black Family Tapestry
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Season 7: Black Lake Lullaby - Gabbey's Acquisition Shop
- ↑ Violetta Bulstrode married Cygnus Black (II), who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Given that family's attitudes and that her descendants are pure-bloods, Violetta was thus a pure-blood as well.
- ↑ Black family tree
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Bulstrode" from the Guild of One-Name Studies
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Boulstridge on The Internet Surname Database
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Akashic Record