The Black family from Harry Potter were an interesting bunch. Although not main characters of the series, for the most part, a lot of information about them leaked out through the other characters and through J.K. Rowling herself. They were definitely an odd bunch — proud pure-bloods, with some eccentricities that are pretty hard to ignore. It doesn't seem harsh at all to claim that they were, hands down, one of the most messed up families in the series — awful, supremacist, and often unhinged.