The Dursleys

The Dursley’s family is a Muggle Family who lived in Privet Drive 4th, Little Wingey, Surrey. Nothing less than the family who took care of Harry since he was just a child, when his parents died in a dreadful way, by the hand of Lord Voldemort.

Petunia Evans was the older sister of Lily Evans, she never stand the way her parents seemed to value her sister more than her, only because she was a witch. She drop which made her vase collapse was the letter from Hogwarts to Lily, “A witch in the family isn’t it wonderful?”.

They grew up in Cokeworth, which she left early eager to get away from her family, she will pursue a typing course in London, which will bring her to work for an office where she’ll meet the super anti-wizard Muggle Vernon Dursley. He had a perfectly correct car, and wanted to do completely ordinary things, and by the time he had taken her on a series of dull dates, during which he talked mainly about himself and his predictable ideas on the world. During one particular date when they were sitting in his car in front of a chip shop she tearfully confessed about her strange sister. As she had expected, Vernon was quite shocked, though he comforted her and told her it was not her fault for having a “freak” for a sister and that he would not hold it against her. He finally proposed to her in his mother’s (very ordinary) living room, it was all very emotional.

And Finally after the wedding they had s child, Dudley. Everything seemed perfectly normal, till one day Petunia, now Petunia Dursley, catching outside the milk bottles, found wrapped tight in blanket, her nephew: Harry. With the boy there was a letter of Albus Dumbledore, where he explained everything that happened to the boy, and why he had to stay with her. They decided even if reluctantly to keep him, and treated him as a servant more than a nephew, or less like a son. Even if the treats of the magic world in the following year will bring them to treat him a little better, as conceding him the second room of Dudley.

They never miss an occasion to make feel Harry uncomfortable, out of place, and never enough for them, they never spent a good word on his parents, nor his Aunt despite she was her sister, until they had to spare. On the day which Harry told them that the spell that was keeping him safe was soon vanish, something unusual happened:

Dudley before leaving kept asking why they have to spare from Harry, and not only he thanked him to have saved his life the summer they got attacked by the dementors, but after his father had define Harry “a waste of space” he went to him, stretched out his hand, and shaking Harry’s he said “I don’t think you’re a waste of space.”.

What happened between him and his Aunt Petunia wasn’t less touching, she was the last one leaving the house, Harry found her looking at the empty walls and furniture-less living room.

“I have lived in this house for twenty years, and now in a single night I’m expected to leave.”

She said not even looking at him.

“If they think for a moment you know where I’m going they’ll stop at nothing.”

Replied Harry, trying to make her understand that he was asking them to leave just to protect her.

“Don’t you think I know what they are capable of?”

“I don’t think you lost a mother that night a Godric’s Hollow”

Replied Harry sharply, as almost to start their last war.

“No I’ve lost a sister.”

The Dursley represent maybe one of my personal favourite theories, they’ve always been quite difficult to deal with, and for sure they have hated Harry at first glimpse they had on him, just for what he was. But what if they had become so mean with him just because they lived all those years with an Horcrux, and in the end managed to become more friendly with him because more and more Horcrux were being destroyed, and Voldemort’s soul was becoming weaker?