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Do you mean Slytherins or pure bloods? Slytherins obviously aren't an ethnogroup, and to the extent that purebloods are an ethnogroup the analogy doesn't hold up.
The sacred 28 is a list of the 28 truely pure blooded British families. Those 28 families include
The Weasleys.
The Prwetts of which all the boys died fighting Voldemort, and Molly Weasley is the only daughter.
The Longbottom's
The Shacklebolts
The list includes other non-heroic but not Voldemort adjacent families, like Olivander, other plotting backroom dealers like Slughorn and maybe Greengrass.
So even this take doesn't break things down into a unified ethno group. A large amout of the fighting is among the sacred 28.
A Crouch, a Lestrange, and a Lestrange/Black torture the Longbottoms into insanity.
A Longbottom destroys a Horcrux.
Voldemort's side (1/2 Gaunt) killes the Prewetts boys.
Molly Weasley/Prwettt kills Belatrixx Lestrange/Black.
Voldemort Kidnaps an Olivander.
Belatrixx Lestrange/Black kills another Black.
A black betrays Voldemort and steals his Horcrux.
A Shackbolt is one of the cheif enemies of Voldemort.
A Crouch is Voldemort's main government opposition during the war, but his son worked for Voldemort, and his son later kills him.
All of these surnames are in the sacred 28.
So it's no so much an unmanly ethnogroup that uses their wealth and ownership of the media to secretly control the government. So much as it is a part of of ethnogroup hat uses their wealth and ownership of the media to secretly control the government, often against other members of that exact ethnogroup.... actually, on reflection the the intrasect fighting might make it a more accurate representation of modern Jewry, but not in a way that lines with classic sterotypes (that and how secular liberal Jews and Orthedox Jews are diametrically opposed on every political issue is not well known in common discourse).
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