noun. Direct line of descent; pedigree.

noun. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.

noun. The pedigree of an animal.

noun. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

noun. ancestry of a purebred animal

noun. the descendants of one individual

"People are dying, mainly Muggles, but also Mudbloods, and any whose bloodline is tainted with that of the non-magical, leading to a growing world that hearkens back to the time of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany, as well as echoing the doom and hopelessness of 1984."

ancestry  derivation  filiation  lineage  

`gods'  anthropophagi  coachwork  escutcheons  missee  

affiliation  apparentation  birth  blood  branch