Astoria Greengrass

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Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass)
Biographical information
Gender	Female
Born	c. 1982
Family	Daphne Greengrass (sister) Draco Malfoy (husband) Scorpius Malfoy (son) Lucius Malfoy (father-in-law) Narcissa Malfoy (mother-in-law)
Blood Status	Pure-blood [1]
Affiliation	Malfoy family Greengrass family
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) (born c. 1982)^[2] is the younger sister of Daphne Greengrass, and later on went to marry Daphne's fellow classmate, Draco Malfoy. The couple had one son together, Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy.^[3]

[edit] Behind the scenes

• J.K. Rowling has said that she chose to have Draco marry someone other than Pansy Parkinson, who seems to have been his girlfriend during his adolescence, because she always hated Pansy, who represented "the girls who teased me when I was at school".
• The name Astoria may be derived from the London Astoria, a music venue in London, England, or the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famously luxurious hotel in New York City. This hotel was named after the Astors, a very wealthy and influential American family.[1] The name may also be related to Astraea, a daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology who personified justice. Astraea is derived from Greek meaning "star-maiden"; this may related to her husband's maternal family often naming its members after stars and constellations.[2] The name may also be spelled Asteria as shown on the Weasley Family Tree^[4]. Like Hyperion - her son Scorpius' middle name - Asteria is the name of one of the Titans. Asteria was the goddess of astrology and necromancy, her name meaning "falling star".

[edit] Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance) (Identified only as Draco's wife)

[edit] Notes and references