Dursley family

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The Dursleys or the Dursley family are fictional characters who are Harry Potter's last living relatives. Harry was placed under their care as a baby by Albus Dumbledore, in order to ensure his safety.

"Dursley" (pronounced "DURZ-lee") is a small town in Gloucestershire, birthplace of J. K. Rowling.

1 Vernon Dursley
2 Petunia Dursley
3 Dudley Dursley
4 Marjorie Dursley
5 Family tree of Harry Potter
6 External links

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Vernon Dursley

Harry Potter character
Image:Uncle vernon hp.JPG Richard Griffiths as Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Vernon Dursley
Gender	Male
Hair Colour	Black
Eye Colour	Blue
School	Smeltings
Parentage	Muggle
Allegiance	{{{allegiance\|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Richard Griffiths
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry's uncle-by-marriage: he is married to Petunia, Lily Potter's sister and they have a son named Dudley. Vernon is described as a big, beefy man, with hardly any neck, and a large mustache. He is the director of a drill-making company called "Grunnings" and seems to be successful in his career. He is a Muggle, and detests all magical things, especially his nephew Harry. He and his wife, Petunia, have grudgingly raised Harry from an early age, denying him any information about the magical world, including his parents. He reads the Daily Mail newspaper. Template:-

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Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter character
Image:Petunia dursley.jpg Fiona Shaw as Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Petunia Evans Dursley
Gender	Female
Hair Colour	Blonde
Eye Colour	Grey "large, pale"
School	Unknown
Parentage	Muggle
Allegiance	{{{allegiance\|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Fiona Shaw
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry's maternal aunt: Petunia Dursley, née Evans, is described as being a blonde woman, with bony hands, a horsey face and a very long neck, which she uses to spy on her neighbours. She obsessively follows news about divorced movie stars while sniffing, "as if we're interested in their sordid affairs" (OotP). Her whole family was made up of Muggles, except for her sister Lily who was a Muggle-born witch. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were proud of having a witch in the family, but Petunia saw her sister as a freak (perhaps out of jealousy towards her sister whom she referred to as being 'perfect' at one point. In the eyes of some readers, however she seems to genuinely have believed Lily to be a freak due to years of bigotry towards the strange and the unknown.)

At some point she met Vernon Dursley and married him. On 22 June 1980 they had a son named Dudley. Petunia Dursley hadn't seen her sister for years and usually pretended she didn't have one - The Evans sisters weren't talking as Lily Potter knew how her sister felt about her. However one day Petunia discovered her nephew Harry Potter on her doorstep as she put out the milk bottles.

There was a note left with baby Harry by Albus Dumbledore, which explained that his parents Lily and James had been killed by Lord Voldemort, how Lily Potter had sacrificed herself to save her son's life and how living with his only other relatives would protect him from Lord Voldemort. Petunia and Vernon agreed to raise Harry, but kept him as downtrodden as possible in order to squash the magic out of him; they never told him how his parents died, instead claiming they had died in a car crash.

When Petunia and her husband, Vernon, attempted to throw Harry out of their house at the beginning of Order of the Phoenix, she receives a Howler from Dumbledore – "Remember my last, Petunia", which JKR has confirmed is referring to the note he left with one-year-old Harry on their doorstep. She has, therefore, more knowledge about the wizarding world than she will admit. Furthermore, Petunia has proved she knows what dementors and Azkaban are, claiming to have overheard a conversation between Lily and an "awful boy" that might have been James Potter. Petunia normally refers to James using his name, leaving the possibility that she has met other wizards. In an article, J.K. Rowling confirmed that the readers will discover that "there is a little bit more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye". Template:-

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Dudley Dursley

Harry Potter character
Image:Dudley dursley hp.jpg Harry Melling as Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Dudley Dursley
Gender	Male
Hair Colour	Blond (Brown in the movies)
Eye Colour	Blue (Brown in the movies)
School	Smeltings
Parentage	Muggle
Allegiance	{{{allegiance\|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Harry Melling
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry's first cousin: Dudley was born on 22 June 1980. He is the only child of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, a nephew to Marjorie Dursley and Lily Evans (respectively his father's and mother's sisters), and nephew-by-marriage to James Potter.

He is described as a large blonde boy, whose parents have spoiled him since birth, letting their child lack social courtesy or grace, and overeat until he was beyond morbidly obese.(He had reached the height and weight of a young killer whale at the beginning of the fourth book) Throughout their childhood together, Dudley would take any opportunity he could to humiliate and torment his cousin, Harry. Unlike his cousin, however, Dudley has no powers outside of his brutishness. By the fifth book Dudley has become physically strong: he has taken an interest in boxing and seems skilled in it. A great bully, he leads a gang of thugs (Piers, Dennis, Gordon & Malcolm) with whom he regularly beats up younger children such as Mark Evans on the flimsiest of excuses ("He was asking for it ... he cheeked me"). He is attacked by two dementors (sent by Umbridge) at the start of the fifth book. His hair in all the books is blond whilst his movie counterpart has brown hair (see image).

The same year Harry started at Hogwarts, Dudley enrolled at his father's old boarding school, Smeltings. There are hints that Smeltings is a snobbish public school with absurd traditions.

Dudley has had incredibly bad luck during the books, perhaps as a punishment for being spoiled, horrible, and purposely very obese. In the first book, Dudley was mildly attacked by a large snake and is painfully given a pig's tail by Hagrid, which has to be removed. In the second book, nothing completely horrible happens, but there are hints that he is wearing clothes too large for him. His trousers continually slip down his bottom, and will supposedly eventually come down completely, perhaps in school or in company. Also, Dudley falls off of his chair and is unable to get to his feet, hinting at his incredible poundage.

In the third book, nothing happens to Dudley, but in the movie he is hit multiply with small beads, knocking him down. In the fourth book, he becomes wider than he is tall, and is visited by wizards (the Weasleys). Dudley is afraid of them and attempts to protect his buttocks from magical abuse. During their visit, however, he eats a magical toffee that enlarges his tongue. In the fifth book, he is attacked by dementors, and in the sixth, he is visited by Dumbledore, who pities Dudley and blames Vernon and Petunia for how the boy has turned out--his parents have utterly failed to adequately prepare him to enter the real world. Template:-

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Marjorie Dursley

Harry Potter character
Image:Aunt marge hp.jpg Pam Ferris as Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Aunt Marge
Gender	Female
Hair Colour	Unknown (Blonde in the film and book illustrations)
Eye Colour	Unknown
School	unknown
Parentage	Muggle
Allegiance	{{{allegiance\|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Pam Ferris
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Marjorie "Marge" Dursley is Vernon Dursley's sister and is described as being just like him, a large woman with hardly any neck and even a moustache. Though she isn't a blood relative of Harry, he has been forced to call her "Aunt Marge". Marge lives out in the country, where she breeds bulldogs. Due to this she hardly ever visits Privet Drive, to Harry's great delight. However, each of her visits stands out in Harry's mind for her cruelty to him. Aunt Marge thinks Harry is a horrible boy, whose dad was a drunk and mother a fool.

Her most recent visit was in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry made her float, making her resemble a balloon.

Aunt Marge usually brings her dog Ripper with her to Privet Drive – he pines when he is away from her – and treats him better than she treats most humans. While Aunt Marge is gone, Colonel Fubster takes care of her other dogs. Template:-

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