A/N: Draco & Astoria! This one is my favourite. :) Enjoy! Please review--should I write anymore? Draco Malfoy & Astoria Greengrass
1. Much to everyone's surprise, Draco really did marry the sweet Herbology expert from Hufflepuff. And to further shock society, he relentlessly chased her for two years before she gave in to a date. Astoria was dating Neville Longbottom at the time, and Draco was often forced to resort the kind of technique that James Potter Sr. frequently employed during his chase of Lily Evans. (James would have been proud, even if Draco was a Slytherin.)
2. Draco still doesn't understand what exactly it was about Astoria that drew him in so fast (and caused him to give Neville Longbottom a rather awful black eye), but he's glad it did. Maybe it was her nature or her bright blue eyes, or maybe it was an impossible combination of things that made her essential to him. Or maybe it was simply the fact she defied all convention and stirred feelings in him that were honourable, noble, even. She is everything, because she is the one who'd given him everything; the love that he had never known, the kindness that he lacked, and she was the one who had shown him, gradually, that life was better when he was merciful.
3. When he met her, he was drowning in the depths of his guilt over what he had done, what he had become, agonizing over the despair he felt when he thought about all the cruelties and all the acts of cowardice he'd committed. Astoria was the brave one. She'd stood out from her family, stood apart from their hatred and bitterness, even at the risk of losing her life. He often tells her that she should have been in Gryffindor; he doesn't give a damn about Houses anymore. She would smile at him and would tell him that the Hat gave her the option, but she picked Hufflepuff because she thought it'd piss her family off even more. She was the one who told him to suck it up and change his ways if the guilt bothered him so much. She was the one who told him to leave her the hell alone unless he did change. She never tried to change him; she encouraged (forced, really) him to change himself.
4. With Astoria at his side, he managed to salvage whatever was left of his tattered soul. He has spent his time striving to undo all the damage he'd caused, but on the darkest of nights, when the Dark Mark tingles on his arm and he wakes up from the old restless nightmare drenched in sweat, she holds him and reminds him that he loves her, and that his love for her is brave and noble and more than enough redemption. Then she'll remind him that he actually managed to learn how to get along with Weasley and Potter, which is proof enough that he's not who he used to be. (Draco will then tell Astoria that not calling Potter Potty—not to his face, at least—is his greatest achievement in life.)
5. Astoria, on the other hand, is best buddies with Hermione Weasley and Ginny Potter. This is a fact that he, Potter, and Weasley have grudgingly accepted that they cannot change (albeit not without a good amount of Firewhiskey and drunken duelling). When he is shoved by Astoria into The Boyfriend Chair at a Muggle mall, Draco groans in unison with the other two unwitting husbands (namely, Potty—Potter and Weasel—Weasley) who are usually with him. He has finally figured out that he, Potter, and Weasley are all rather rabid fans of the Chudley Cannons, so they actually have something to discuss now. So while they're waiting for their wives to finish pillaging through Chanel (Draco is sad to say it, but he knows the exact location of Chanel in every major city on the continent), he and Potter and Weasley talk business and politics and Quidditch and their baffling children.
6. Draco and Astoria have one son, Scorpius, who is his father's mirror image and his mother's kindred spirit. (Translation: Scorpius is a giant pushover made up entirely of soft spots, and has been endorsed by his mother into thinking that it is his job to do the right thing, at all times and all costs.) Draco had already named him when Astoria woke up from all the sedatives they'd given her for the pain—she nearly killed him right then and there. Draco still winces at the memory of her shrieking, Scorpius? You named him Scorpius? Draco Malfoy, I am going to murder you right here and now if you don't change my baby boy's name, so help me Merlin I will! Eventually, Draco got to keep Scorpius in exchange for allowing her to give little Score Hyperion as a middle name. She also insisted they change his last name to Greengrass-Malfoy (Draco considers himself lucky that she didn't want Malfoy-Greengrass). Poor Scorpius has to live with Scorpius Hyperion Greengrass-Malfoy as a name, but when he complains, Draco comforts him with the fact that Scorpiusisn't the one who ended up as "Albus Severus Weasley-Potter".
7. Scorpius is kind and caring, to the annoyance of his grandfather and the delight of his mother. Draco's just happy that he's healthy (well, as healthy as a teenage boy can be, anyways) and excellent at Quidditch. Scorpius is often oblivious in the way that only teenage boys can be. Perhaps that's why he's best friends with Albus Severus Weasley-Potter (Draco has heard that kid threatening to change his name to John Doe, and totally understands). Or perhaps that's why Scorpius is completely blind to the way he beams like an idiot every time Rose Weasley smiles at him, and why he can't see how she looks at him with so much love that Draco wants to hit his son over the head just to make him see. Because Draco knows that it isn't as if Score doesn't have those feelings for the girl whose hair reminds him of a traffic beacon—he just wants to save his son from some heartache and well-aimed hexes (he's seen Rose Weasley angry, and she is quite formidable).
8. Draco would never tell Astoria, but the reason he ever tried to get along with Weasley and Potter is because he has a general fear of being hexed by her (or attacked by the scary Devil's Snare she seems to keep as a pet), and he has an even greater fear of her threatening not to sleep with him for something like six months (she is more than capable of kicking him out of the house). The imbalance of power in their relationship is really quite unfair, because it doesn't matter if she's wrong—she's still right, because Draco doesn't really fancy the idea of sleeping on the street or not getting laid. Weasley once told him that he should get used to his wife holding ungodly amounts of power over him.
9. She doesn't know that he knows, but he knows that Astoria thinks Rose and Scorpius are the, quote, "cutest thing since Muggle teddy bears". He once found a set of letters that Hermione and Astoria were writing to each other, practically planning out the kids' wedding; Draco choked at the idea of being related to the Weasel. (Astoria waved the Devil's Snare in his face menacingly when he called Weasley the Weasel again.) Draco supposes that it wouldn't be that bad; at least he could steal the Weasel's season ticket to Cannons games. Rose really does seem to love his son and Scorpius is way too compatible with her. (He never thought that his child would be so compatible with a Weasley. Really. What has the world come to?) It's just…his grandkids! They'll look like the Weasel! (He never voices this protestation in fear of said Devil's Snare.)
10. Draco works at the Ministry, trying to improve wizard relations with other species and occasionally even with Muggles. (Not that he'd ever be caught dead with a Muggle appliance or anything…usually he hastily hides his conveniently magic-proof iPod deep in his robes.) Lucius is quite disgusted with this, but Draco's learned the hard way not to give a damn what his family thinks. Year after year, as his son comes home happy and unperturbed by the dangers that had rocked his own childhood, he sighs in relief that Potter won (even if it does mean that Score and Astoria are forcing him spend all summer at the Potters' cottage). He is utterly grateful for his life now, utterly grateful that he has Astoria, whose courage and kindness changed him forever, that he has Score, whose very presence indicates that he, too, is a survivor, and sometimes, he is even grateful that he gets along (kind of) with Potter and Weasley. (Only because he gets to steal season passes, though.)