Daphne Greengrass

**Daphne Greengrass** is a student in Harry's year at Hogwarts.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

According to the Ancient Runes professor, Greengrass is a Pureblood surname associated with health, vitality, and life, and in this case, further combined with Daphne, a Greek nymph with beauty enough to entrance the gods.

### Book 1 - Prince of Slytherin

After Harry Potter was "introduced to the wonders of Sleakeazy" by Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil, Daphne Greengrass and her friend, Tracey Davis, were impressed by his perfect coif and requested him to refer to them on a first name basis. This privilege was later revoked as a consequence of Harry's reputation changing from "mysterious eccentric loner" to "loser on the outs with his family whose only friends were other losers", due to Jim Potter's ceasing direct attacks and Harry's friendship with Neville Longbottom, who had problems with his wand work.

She was rebuffed when she inquired as to how Harry knew about the placement of a trap set up by the Weasley twins. She ranked third among the 1st Year Slytherins in the end-of-year rankings.

### Book 2 - The Secret Enemy

She attends Jim Potter's 12th birthday celebration charity event with Tracey Davis and her family, where she expressed her eagerness to attend the Potter New Year's Eve Ball. She also inquired about the motives behind the invitation. She tries and fails to stop Tracey from telling the reason on why Harry and they were back to last name basis, which was because Draco Malfoy had threatened to harass Tracey regarding her Half-blood Status, should they support Harry Potter further.

As seen at the Start-of-Term Feast, she appears to have a dislike for the usage of nicknames in place of "proper" Pureblood names. She expresses irritation to Harry due to his unorthodox power play the previous year but agrees to give Ginny Weasley etiquette lessons (which are necessary for survival in Slytherin) as a favour to Harry.

She is later selected by Regulus Black, disguised as Gilderoy Lockhart, to be a part of Team Chameleon.

She dances with Harry at The Potter New Year's Eve Ball, where she informs him of House Selwyn's moves.

She also reveals a dislike for Miranda Bonnevie.

### Book 3 - The Death-Eater Menace

After the Ultimate Sanction debacle, she advised Harry to cut ties with Theo No-Name, and to "allow Slytherin wisdom to guide you in these matters instead of Hufflepuffian sentimentality or, worse, Gryffindorish defiance of cultural standards".

She also took the Muggle Studies class, reportedly due to her family's businesses occasionally requiring them to interact with Muggles.

In the Hogwarts Cultural Preservation Society she exhibited knowledge of Wizarding laws.

## Appearance

Daphne has been described as a raven-haired beauty with blue eyes.

## Personality & Traits

She has been described as cold and distant ('aloof') and in Harry's opinion, she 'carries herself like a forgotten member of the House of Windsor'. She also has strong bonds of friendship with fellow Slytherin, Tracey Davis. That Tracey is not a Pureblood shows us that Daphne is willing to look beyond blood.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

She is shown to have skill in DADA and Ancient Runes, and is one of the top performers of her house. She also has knowledge of Wizarding law.

## Behind the Scenes

* According to The Sinister Man, the role of Daphe Greengrass is portrayed by Georgie Henley from "Prince Caspian".

## Canon Divergence

Daphne is, as The Sinister Man puts it, basically wallpaper in canon. As such, every detail of her life in the Prince of Slytherin, apart from her name and the existence of her younger sister, Astoria, was created by The Sinister Man.