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Hey everyone, welcome back to Harry Potter Theory. Don't let their modest home fool you, because the Wiesleys are one of the oldest,

and proudest wizarding families

in Britain, and through all the centuries of their existence, the honest bunch of do-goers

have racked up quite a number of interesting feats and facts. Today, we're going to take a few

moments to look at some of the most shocking ones. 10. Related to the Potters. The wizarding community in Great Britain is famously tiny.

Although there are over two dozen pureblood families that populate the aisle and exponentially

more half-blood ones, that still only amounts to a few thousand wizards and witches.

Until recent times, even the most progressive wizarding families believed that pure bloods

should only marry pure bloods.

And even if they didn't believe this pretty narrow-minded point of view, many witches

and wizards ended up marrying other wizards and witches anyway.

The fact that they went to a magical school and lived amongst other witches and wizards

all but guaranteed that they'd only marry other magic users.

With so few families, it was only a matter of time before the Weasleys married into the

Potter family, or vice versa.

Of course, eventually, Harry Potter and the Weasleys would become related by Harry's marriage

to Ginny.

But according to the Black Family Tree, another Potter marriage that predates Harry's

by several generations meant that Harry was actually already related to the Weasleys. Although it hasn't been confirmed, one of Harry's distant ancestors, a wizard by the name

of Charles Potter, married into the Black family and produced a child in the 1940s or

50s.

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