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* [[Denied Food as Punishment]]: "Go--cupboard--stay--no meals."
* [[Evil Uncle]]
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Despite his abuse of Harry he's actually a rather kind husband to Petunia and threw himself between Hagrid and Dudley without a thought for his own Safety.
* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father|Fantasy-Forbidding Uncle]]
* [[Fat Bastard]]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Petunia is blonde in the books, but dark-haired in the film to make them less similar to the Malfoys.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she remembers hearing about dementors because she overheard her sister being told about it from "that awful boy", with the implication being that said boy was James. In ''Deathly Hallows'', that's revisited, as Harry peers into Snape's memory and watches Lily and Petunia hear about the dementors...from Snape, not James as previously believed.
* [[Floral Theme Naming]]: Lily and Petunia, anyone?
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: She's just jealous because Lily got all the beauty and the power. Can you really blame her if she wants to take it out on her nephew?
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Tries to hit Harry with a frying pan in the second book, but misses.
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]
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* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: As a child
** A good case can be made that she still wants to be special even as an adult and that she is just overcompensating her "normal life" because she is fully aware of it, which also leads to her treatment of Harry, {{spoiler|which she is later implied to regret like Dudley.}}
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: When Harry and the Dursleys part for the last time, there's a moment when Petunia looks like she wants to say something kind to Harry, but ultimately she can't do it and just continues on out the door. In a [[Deleted Scene]] from [[Harry Potter
* [[Meaningful Name]]: In the language of flowers, petunias symbolise anger and resentment.
* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]: Petunia seems to have the idea that her teenage son is just an oversized toddler and treats him accordingly. Dudley doesn't seem to mind, as it makes her easy to manipulate. He just has to act upset in front of her and she'll give her "Diddykins" whatever he wants.
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* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Petunia has a huge blind spot when it comes to Dudley's many flaws.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[The Unfavorite]]: We don't actually ''know'' since we never get to see Lily's and her parents, but it is implied the reason she is so bitter and resentful towards magic and the Potters is that she felt left behind when her pretty, popular sister got a letter from Hogwarts and she didn't.
== Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) ==
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* [[Kids Are Cruel]]
* [[Large and In Charge]]: "Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader."
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: He's the one who gets favored.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Dumbledore makes the interesting case that what the Dursleys have done to Dudley is actually worse than what they did to Harry.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Especially in the film version of
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
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** There was a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFbbc_kd-Tw scene shot] for ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1]]'' which would have shown that Dudley had grown up and rejected his parents' hatred of Harry, but it was left out of the film.
== Marjorie "Marge" Dursley (Pam Ferris) ==
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Vernon's sister, who visits the rest of the family occasionally. Marge lives out in the country, where she is a professional bulldog breeder. She does not know about the magical world, but nevertheless follows the Dursley "party line" of considering Harry and his parents to be freaks. She is not shy about expressing this viewpoint, although she has apparently never met Harry's parents first hand.
Marge only appears in ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', although she is mentioned a few times in the first book and once in the fifth book. It is during her visit in ''Azkaban'' that Harry gets so angry at her for insulting his parents that he causes her to blow up like a balloon.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Marge runs on brandy. [[Hypocritical Humor|Ironically, she accuses Harry's parents of being drunks.]]
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Hermione's parents are a pair of Muggle dentists. Throughout the series, they are almost entirely [[Out of Focus]] as Rowling believes they would be boring characters. Unlike the Dursleys, they are apparently accepting of Hermione being a witch.
Mr. and Mrs. Granger are best known for the instance in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' when Hermione gives them [[Fake Memories]] so that they will forget she exists and move to Australia, where they will be safe from Voldemort's terror. This is only mentioned in dialogue in the book, but is actually portrayed onscreen in the movie version. [[Word of God]] states that Hermione returned her parents to normal after Voldemort was defeated.
* [[Fake Memories]]
* [[Good Parents]]: Well, apparently.
* [[Happily Married]]: Presumably. We're really grasping at straws to fill this section.
* [[Invisible Parents]]: Almost entirely. They appear briefly "on screen" during a Diagon Alley shopping trip, but that's it.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: In the seventh film, they are played by different actors than the ones who played them during their equally brief appearance in the second film. (One of them [[Hey, It's That Guy!|being]] [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Catelyn Stark]]!)
* [[Unnamed Parent]]: Their first names are never mentioned. However, when Hermione changes their memories, she gives them the names Wendell and Monica Wilkins, so we know their fake first names, but not their real first names.
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