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Gamp was the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family. They were related to the Black and Flint families, and more distantly to the Yaxley, Burke, Bulstrode, Macmillan, and Prewett families. All the known female line's descendants of this family (the sons of Hesper Gamp and Sirius Black and their descendants) were dead by 1996.
Family members[]
- Ulick Gamp: the first Minister for Magic, serving from 1707 to 1718, after previously acting as the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. During his term as Minister for Magic, Ulick established the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.[2]
- Hesper Black (née Gamp): she married Sirius Black (II), the heir of the prejudiced Black family. She was the great-grandmother of Sirius and Regulus Black.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
The Gamps were not part of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, indicating that, by the 1930s, they were either extinct in the male line or no longer pure-blood (as judged by the author of the Pure-Blood Directory).
Etymology[]
Gamp is a colloquial, primarily British, term for an umbrella, believed to be derived from a character in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, nursemaid Sarah Gamp.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Name seen on Black family tree tapestry)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore
- HarryPotter.com
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World (Appears in painting(s))
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Hogwarts Legacy (Mentioned only)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in painting(s))
Notes and references[]
- ↑ This may be the case with Hesper Black née Gamp, as Horace Slughorn has claimed that all Blacks were Sorted into Slytherin. However, this may not included spouses, since members of other traditionally non-Slytherin families were married into the family.
- ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic" at HarryPotter.com
- ↑ Black family tree