McLaggen family
Family heritage
Blood status	Wizarding family, unknown degree
Notable family members	Cormac McLaggen
Status	Presumably extant
Affiliation
House(s)	Gryffindor

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McLaggen is the surname of a wizarding family. It is unknown if they are pure-blood, or have both Muggle and magical heritage.

Family Members

• Cormac McLaggen — a Gryffindor student who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1990s.
• Mr. McLaggen — father of Cormac.

Possible Relations

• Tiberius, a friend of Bertie Higgs and Rufus Scrimgeour, was an uncle of Cormac McLaggen, but it is unknown on what side of the family and whether through blood or marriage.

Etymology

McLaggen is a Scottish surname, an anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Gille Adhagain, meaning "son of the servant of Adocan."^[1][2]

J. K. Rowling revealed that she discovered the surname while writing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and felt compelled to use it for a character because she thought it was "too good to waste".^[3]

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