Burke Family

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

They were related to the Black, Flint and possibly the Malfoy families.

Caractacus Burke co-founded the Knockturn Alley shop Borgin and Burkes, which specialised in Dark artefacts, and it is possible that younger members of the family also became co-owners of the shop.

Family Members

 * Belvina Burke (née Black) — the only daughter of Phineas Nigellus Black and Ursula Flint.
 * Caractacus Burke — one of the original founders of Borgin and Burkes.[5]
 * Elizabeth Burke — a witch with a portrait in the Slytherin Dungeon of Hogwarts Castle, who encouraged Slytherin students to be "nasty to Mudbloods".[1]
 * Two sons of Herbert and Belvina Burke
 * Daughter of Herbert and Belvina Burke
 * Herbert Burke — husband of Belvina Black

Etymology
Burke is the Anglo-Norman pronunciation of burgh, which was "a topographical surname​ for someone who lived in a fortified place."[6] In Middle English, it meant a "fort or fortified town,"[7] though in Old English, it meant "to murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection" or "to smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress." It can also be a variant of the British slang term berk, meaning "idiot".[8] Burke is also a real surname common in Britain and Ireland. It comes from the Norman de Burgo which was Anglicised in Irish as de Búrca.

In the real world, Edmund Burke, generally known only by his surname, was an Anglo-Irish political philosopher who argued in favour of traditional monarchism. Thus perhaps the Burke family having many members as pure blood supremacists is meant as an allusion to this historical figure.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Appears in portrait(s))
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First mentioned)
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Appears in portrait(s))
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Appears in portrait(s)) [9]
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears in portrait(s))
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Appears in portrait(s))
 * Pottermore (Mentioned only)
 * LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Mentioned only)
 * LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Mentioned only)
 * Harry Potter for Kinect (Appears in portrait(s))
 * The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
 * Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Appears in portrait(s))