Astoria does attend Hogwarts along with the rest of the crew, though she is two years beneath both her future husband Draco and her older sister, Daphne Greengrass. In “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” we learn that an ancestor placed a blood curse before her birth, which weakened her throughout her life. After leaving Hogwarts in the aftermath of the battle that pitted Voldemort, the Dark Lord, against his nemesis Harry Potter, the two married — though author Joanne Rowling notes in her online encyclopedia, Wizarding World, that Draco’s parents weren’t happy.
“Draco married the younger sister of a fellow Slytherin. Astoria Greengrass, who had gone through a similar (though less violent and frightening) conversion from pure-blood ideals to a more tolerant life view, was felt by Narcissa and Lucius to be something of a disappointment as a daughter-in-law,” Rowling wrote. “They had had high hopes of a girl whose family featured on the ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’, but as Astoria refused to raise their grandson Scorpius in the belief that Muggles were scum, family gatherings were often fraught with tension.”
So why Astoria? As Rowling said during a 2007 PotterCast interview, it was really because she hated Draco’s Slytherin classmate Pansy Parkinson — so she wanted him to marry somebody else instead. Enter Astoria.
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