Cygnus Greengrass

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This article is about **the father of Daphne and Astoria Greengrass**. You may be looking for **somebody else named *Cygnus****.*

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Eleanor Greengrass (wife)
* Daphne Greengrass (daughter)
* Astoria Greengrass (daughter)
* Charlotte and Elizabeth Greengrass (twin daughters)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Wela Party

"*Neutrality? My dear Chief Warlock… I have never been neutral. My side is well-known to all.* […] *Not your side, Chief Warlock, nor that of the self-proclaimed 'Dark Lord'… As always, I'm on the only side that matters…* my *side.* […] *And as for those who are not on my side… they are in my way.*"
— Cygnus Greengrass making his allegiance clear after the return of VoldemortA Godfather's Promise, Chapter 20
**Lord Cygnus Greengrass** is the name given in *A Godfather's Promise* to the father of Daphne and Astoria Greengrass, who does not appear in canon. He is the leader of the Wela Party, the largest party in the Magical British parliament, which is focused on economics and prosperity but avoids questions of ideology and morality. Cygnus came from a once great family that had fallen on hard times, owning little but his name and his blood status, but was ambitious and cunning enough to make a fortune during the First Wizarding War; by 1994 his family is second only to the Potters in terms of money. Like them he owns muggle businesses as well as magical ones, which makes him popular with half-bloods and muggle-born, while his traditional family satisfies the pure-bloods.

He is said to have been eighteen during the war, which took place in the seventies, so he was presumably born in the fifties. He and his wife Eleanor have four daughters – Daphne, Astoria and the twins Charlotte and Elizabeth – but no son who can carry on the family name, and after complications during the birth of the twins the healers declared that another pregnancy would be fatal for Eleanor. Due to this, Daphne sees it as her duty to marry and have a son, and expects her father will arrange a marriage with a (politically and/or economically) suitable man; her mother, on the other hand, seems less certain he will do so.

## Biography

Cygnus seems to have been born around the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, his father spent his days at Elric's Pub, drinking and gambling away his money, and he tended to be violent when his son came to take him home; a week before his son's first trip to Hogwarts he was found dead, "face down in a puddle of his own sick and with a knife at his back", leaving the family in a crushing debt so that his wife had to sell everything to afford "a hovel in Knockturn Alley" and food for herself and her son. Halfway through his fifth year, she grew sick and unable to work, forcing him to drop out of Hogwarts and work at Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment to support her. He never finished his formal education, but studied the material at night while learning "to read people, how to sell objects to anyone, and how to convince them to make a deal" during the day. When he first met Eleanor – in the early-to-mid-1970s – she worked at Madam Malkin's; she also came from a family that was rich only in ancestors, but as a pure-blood woman she could have married a wealthy heir. Instead she accepted his courtship and they married within a year – at which time he already owned Wiseacre and the Apothecary, so he wasn't exactly poor himself; by the time Daphne was conceived, the two of them had recovered everything his father had lost.

## Physical appearance

Lord Cygnus is very tall, "only a few inches short of a full seven feet", and has shoulder-length straight black hair contrasting sharply against his pale skin and eyes "the shade of indigo ice". In formal situations he wears purple robes with "the symbol of a hawk, mouth open and screeching, with talons ready to attack", and, similar to Lucius Malfoy, he at least sometimes carries a cane that he doesn't need. One of his arms holds a deep scar given him by his father when he was eight.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Godfather's Promise, Chapter 9
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 21
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 23
4. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 20

 1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter: Neko's Mate
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Godfather's Promise