Draco and Astoria

Draco marries Astoria.¹ Of whom Mrs. Rowling says she “had gone through a similar (though less violent and frightening) conversion from pure-blood ideals to a more tolerant life view.”²

Draco has apparently learned little to nothing from his experience. He is still attracted to the dark arts, though wise enough not to use them.³ Despite my defence of the Greengrass family, Mrs. Rowling’s statement is hardly a glowing one. We can say that their relationship with the older generation was probably unhappy, and given that Draco was apparently unable or unwilling to give up the Malfoy ways, I suspect their own relationship had some of the same tension. Which parent had more influence on young Scorpius? I suspect even that would add to the problems here. Either way, the depiction certainly destroys anyone attempting to use Cursed Child to create one big happy Weasley-Potter-Malfoy family.