Carrow Family

Carrow was the surname of a pure-blood[1] wizarding family, and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight (Now 18).

Family history
In the 1920s a witch from the Carrow family served as an acolyte of Gellert Grindelwald.

Alecto once viciously slashed the face of Neville Longbottom when he asked her how much Muggle blood she had, outraged by the anti-Muggle propaganda she taught as professor of Muggle Studies during the 1997–1998 school year, when Lord Voldemort was in control of the Ministry of Magic. They would punish the students by using the Cruciatus Curse on people in detention.

Whether twin Slytherin students Flora and Hestia Carrow were part of this family is unknown.

Etymology

 * In English, the word; "Carrow", can refer to two places. "Carrow" in Norfolk, or "Carraw" in Northumberland. The first is assumed to have its name derived from the Old English word "carr", meaning "rock", and a word of Celtic origin; "hoh", meaning "spur of a hill". While the second appears to have been named either after the plural of the Old English word "carr", or after a mixture of a form of "carr", and another Old English word; "raw", meaning "row".


 * It is also possible that the surname was originally a shortened version of the Cornish surname; "Nancarrow".

Appearances

 * Pottermore (Mentioned only)
 * Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
 * Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)