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| The Dursleys |
Although, The Stones & The Grandma are in Hogwarts, they know the whole world is not living its best moments.
It is time of solidarity, help and sacrifice but it is also time to remember who could have done more and did nothing. These bad decisions are having the worst cost, our own lives and our beloved ones.
It is time to stay at home with our families but because of The Stones and The Grandma are in Hogwarts where magic protects them, they want to talk about two important families in the history of this School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, The Dursleys and The Potters.
The Dursley family is a Muggle family, and the only known living close relatives of Harry Potter.
Petunia Dursley was the older sister of Harry's mother, Lily Potter, but took the surname Dursley when she married Vernon Dursley. They had a son named Dudley.
Harry Potter's Muggle aunt and uncle met at work. Petunia Evans, forever embittered by the fact that her parents seemed to value her magical sister more than they valued her, left Cokeworth forever to pursue a typing course in London. This led to an office job, where she met the extremely unmagical, opinionated, and materialistic Vernon Dursley.
The Dursleys lived at 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey, and often went out of their way to keep their neighbours oblivious to anything odd about their family, usually explaining away anything odd by telling people that Harry was a delinquent who went to a detention school far away. Harry did occasionally update them about Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
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Vernon Dursley is an English Muggle, husband of Petunia Evans, father of Dudley and uncle-in-law of Harry Potter. He used to live at 4 Privet Drive along with his wife and son for nearly twenty years until they were forced into hiding during the escalation of the Second Wizarding War.
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| Vernon Dursley |
After Petunia's sister Lily and brother-in-law, James Potter, were killed by Voldemort in their own home, Petunia remained the sole surviving blood relative of Harry's.
Both Wizard and Muggle law demanded that Petunia and Vernon be the new legal guardians of Harry Potter, which they accepted, albeit reluctantly. However, they disliked Harry and treated him badly, while spoiling and fattening Dudley.
Vernon was an arrogant, surly, combustible, blustering, abrasive, petty-minded man who was completely intolerant of people who were different than himself. Like Petunia, he detested magic and anything unusual or out of the ordinary.
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Petunia Dursley is an English Muggle woman, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs Evans and the sister of the Muggle-born witch Lily Potter. During her childhood, she broke off contact with her sister and refused to have any contact with the wizarding world.
She married a Muggle, Vernon Dursley and they had a son, Dudley. However, when Lily was murdered by Voldemort, Petunia became guardian of her nephew, Harry Potter, who was only an infant then.
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| Petunia Dursley |
She neglected and treated him cruelly for the most part, and confined him to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs, although she allowed him a room of his own after receiving his acceptance letters to Hogwarts in order to attempt to trick Hogwarts into not sending letters.
Petunia is a nosy, hostile and repressed woman who, like her husband, was fanatically obsessed with appearing normal. Petunia hated and is very much afraid of magic, and, indeed, anything out of the ordinary.
She blindly doted on her son Dudley, but shunned Harry throughout his entire childhood because of his peculiarities. In her spare time, Petunia often spied on her neighbours, and enjoyed gossiping about their often sordid secrets to her husband, and possibly her friends.
Much like the rest of the Dursley family, she was a spiteful bully, who was envious of those who possessed greater talent or ability than herself, particularly against her sister Lily and her nephew Harry.
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Dudley Dursley is the Muggle son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley and cousin of Harry Potter. He was obese and insolent as a result of his parents spoiling him throughout his childhood, although he became muscular in his teens.
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| Dudley Dursley |
He and his gang often tormented Harry, taking after the example set by his parents, as well as other weaker and younger children in their neighborhood and at school.
Dudley was an unpleasant and spoiled child. His parents spoiled him to the point of becoming grossly obese, demanding, selfish, and manipulative, but most of all, extremely ungrateful.
During his eleventh birthday, he screamed when he received one gift fewer than the previous year, making his parents promise to buy him two more, and pretended to cry when he realised Harry would have to come with him for his birthday trip to the zoo.
Dudley had an awful habit of bullying children who were weaker and as much as five years younger than he was, and when he forgot his fear of Harry's powers, callously insulted him in any way possible, even jeering at Harry about his obviously disturbing nightmares.
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Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive,
were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,
thank you very much.
They were the last people you'd expect to be involved
in anything strange or mysterious,
because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
J. K. Rowling
James Potter, also known as Prongs, is an English pure-blood wizard and the only son of Fleamont and Euphemia Potter. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Gryffindor.
When James started at Hogwarts, he met and became best friends with three fellow Gryffindor students: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. He also met Severus Snape, a Slytherin student with whom he became bitter rivals. During his seventh year, James was appointed Head Boy and began dating Lily Evans.
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| The Potters |
After graduating from Hogwarts, he married Lily and together they had a son, Harry James Potter, of whom he made Sirius Black the godfather. James, Lily, and their friends all fought in the First Wizarding War as members of the Order of the Phoenix; he and his wife defied Lord Voldemort three times.
However, James and Lily were forced to go into hiding after a prophecy was made concerning Voldemort and their infant son. James and Lily were ultimately betrayed to Voldemort by one of their close friends, Peter Pettigrew.
As a result of this, James was tragically murdered by Voldemort on Hallowe'en in 1981, along with his wife while they were trying to protect Harry.
James was a clever and talented wizard, but very mischievous in his youth. He was arrogant and boastful, and occasionally bullied and jinxed other students just for fun, particularly his long-time rival, Severus Snape.
However, even in this stage of arrogance, he still displayed some positive qualities of character. Despite being a pure-blood, he strongly disagreed with the concept of blood purity and was disgusted with any prejudice towards Muggle-borns, and did not hold prejudice towards werewolves, such as Remus Lupin, who was one of his dearest friends.
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Lily J. Potter is an English Muggle-born witch, the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Evans, and the younger sister of Petunia Evans. She learned of her magical nature as a child, after Severus Snape recognised her as such and told her of the existence of magic.
Lily attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was Sorted into Gryffindor House and was a member of the Slug Club. In her seventh year she was made Head Girl and began dating James Potter.
After Hogwarts, Lily
married James. Along with their friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and
Peter Pettigrew, the couple joined the Order of the Phoenix during the
First Wizarding War.
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| Lily & James Potter |
She and her husband defied Lord Voldemort himself three times. Shortly afterwards, Lily and James had a son, Harry James Potter, of whom they made Sirius the godfather.
However, the family was forced to go into hiding after a prophecy was made concerning Lord Voldemort and their infant son. She and James were betrayed by Pettigrew and thus both were murdered by Voldemort on Hallowe'en night in 1981, while trying to protect their son.
Lily was known for being a vivacious, talented, and popular student. She was a responsible student and leader to be Head Girl in her final year at Hogwarts. Horace Slughorn noted that Lily was witty and charming. Remus Lupin once described her as an uncommonly kind person with a habit of seeing the best in others, even when they could not see it themselves.
Lily was a woman of sound moral principles and would stand by them no matter what it cost her, though her actions sometimes were ineffective. On at least one occasion, she called out James Potter and Sirius Black for their bullying of her best friend, Severus Snape.
When she realised Snape's devotion to Voldemort's genocidal cause, of which she was a target at the time, and increasingly deep fascination with the Dark Arts, caused her to end her friendship with him permanently.
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The Potter family is a very old one, but it was never
(until the birth of Harry James Potter)
at the very forefront of wizarding history,
contenting itself with a solid and comfortable
existence in the backwaters.
J. K. Rowling
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