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Bulstrode was the surname of a wizarding family. They were predominantly pure-blood,[1] and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight[2] 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.[3] They were distantly related to the Blacks, the Flints, the Crabbes and the Potters.[4]
Family Members
- Millicent Bulstrode — a Slytherin student in Harry Potter's year at Hogwarts.[5]
- Violetta Black née Bulstrode — wife of Cygnus Black II and mother of Dorea Potter née Black.
Etymology
Bulstrode is an extremely rare surname in the United Kingdom.[6] 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"),[7][8] "bull marsh" (from Old English bula, "bull", and strod),[7][8] or "Bur's marsh" (form Bur, the name of a family, and strod).[6] 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
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Pottermore
- Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Notes and references
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Pure-Blood" at Wizarding World
- ↑ Harry Potter and Me
- ↑ Black family tree
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Bulstrode" from the Guild of One-Name Studies
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Boulstridge on The Internet Surname Database
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Akashic Record