Whilst in the Muggle world, ‘Potter’ is an occupational surname. The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’. pic.twitter.com/DyQdZ1xJjA

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