Astoria Greengrass

***Harry Potter: Neko's Mate***

* Castor Greengrass (father)
* Illiana Greengrass (mother)
* †Helena Greengrass (aunt)

***Violence Inherent in the System***

* Damien Greengrass (father)
* Melian Greengrass (mother)
* Luthien Greengrass (sister)

**Astoria Malfoy**, née Greengrass, is a canonical pure-blood witch and Hogwarts student two years below Harry Potter. It is not known which house she was sorted into, but it is often taken for granted that it was Slytherin like her sister Daphne and eventual husband Draco Malfoy. Astoria and Draco had a single son, Scorpius, but in 2019 she died from a blood-borne curse that had once been placed on an ancestor.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Astoria Malfoy** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Her looks were not described in the books, but in the movies she had (as an adult) slightly-more-than-shoulder-length brown hair and probably light brown or dark grey eyes.

### Parents' names

Since the parents of Daphne and Astoria are never mentioned in canon, they have received many names in fanfiction. Here are some:

### *Violence Inherent in the System*

In this story, Daphne and Astoria have a younger sister named Luthien; their parents are named Damien and Melian. Harry saves Luthien from a dementor attack, and when Dumbledore is removed from the position as Harry's magical guardian Damien offers to take it. Daphne and Astoria are drawn into Harry's circle of friends – including Dumbledore's Army – and in order to protect their standing within Slytherin house they concoct an intricate plan to humiliate Harry, which he is supposed to foil in the last minute.

### Minor appearances

* In *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, aurors led by John Dawlish of the Crusaders For Justice raid the Slytherin dormitories in February 1999, arresting a number of students for "retrial"; among them are both Daphne and Astoria.

* In *A Godfather's Promise*, she has two younger sisters, the twins Charlotte and Elizabeth, who in the summer of 1995 seem to be about four to eight years old. She is said to have an "uncanny resemblance" to Daphne, indicating black hair, pale skin and violet eyes – all traits they also share with their father. The family lives in Greengrass Manor in Colchester.

* In *Ignore the Dementor*, Draco is an eros and Astoria is the mate his magic has chosen for him; however, he thinks of her more as a sister than as a romantic partner, so he never tells her and instead ends up in a relationship with Neville Longbottom. They first met when Draco was five and Astoria four, implying that her birthday is between 1 Sep and 4 June.

* In *Isolation*, although she is never present in the story, Draco mentions that he did date Astoria already before the war.

* In *The Power of Seven*, the Greengrass family is attacked during the full moon following the end of the 1997 Spring school term (a careful count of the days gives a date around 7-9 July, although in reality there was a new moon on the 5 July); while Daphne manages to escape the rest of the family is "conscripted" to work for Voldemort. During the final battle, a month and a half later, Astoria is rescued from the dungeons of her family estate where she has been tortured (and possibly raped) by at least Greyback and Bellatrix Lestrange.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *Violence Inherent in the System*, Chapter 3
3. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 35
4. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 36
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 21
6. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 20
7. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 24
8. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 18
9. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 57
10. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 78

 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