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Harry's uncle. Vernon is a blustering, social-climbing, materialistic [[Jerkass]] with an incredibly insular world view. Basically, the guy's got no redeeming qualities. Both him and Aunt Petunia are very Roald Dahl-esque villains.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]
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* [[British Stuffiness]]: Somewhat. He's stuffy all right, but he's much more boorish than the stereotype would suggest.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: There's his mistreatment of Harry, of course (which stems from ''before'' he knew Harry wasn't allowed to magically retaliate), but there's also the matter of Hagrid arriving to collect Harry. Even though Vernon has ''witnessed'' Hagrid demonstrate his [[Super Strength]] by bending a shotgun, and even after seeing Hagrid get mad, he proceeds to make the half-giant angrier until he ends up [[Berserk Button|doing the one thing that makes Hagrid truly apoplectic with rage]] (i.e. insulting Albus Dumbledore), instead of keeping his mouth shut. Did I mention Hagrid is at least ''twice'' his size?
* [[Denied Food
* [[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
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Happily Married]]: For all his other flaws, he and Petunia really love each other.
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* [[White Collar Worker]]
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Harry's aunt. As a kid, she was involved in [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]] with Lily, Harry's mother. After Lily turned out to be a witch, Petunia got jealous and came to hate magic.
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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.
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Vernon and Petunia's beloved son and Harry's cousin. If you want a quick description of his personality, think of Eric Cartman from ''[[South Park]]''. Initially, he's an overweight [[Spoiled Brat]] and the dim-witted leader of a [[Gang of Bullies]] who torment Harry. Of course, Vernon and Petunia turn a blind eye to the bullying and act as though Dudley were the perfect son. By the fifth book, Dudley has become an outright juvenile delinquent, but his parents remain oblivious.
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* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Dudley is blond in the books, though he had an [[Adaptation Dye Job]] in the movies.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Hagrid tried to turn him into a pig, but ended up just giving him a pig's tail. He ate some of the Weasley twins' joke candy and got an [[Overly Long Tongue]]. And then there are those dementors. Basically, whenever something magical shows up, Dudley is about to get hurt.
* [[The Ditz]]: Can't figure out 37 + 2 at the age of eleven.
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
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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]]:
*
** 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.
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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.]]
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Harry targets an epic one at her in the film.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the film, she can be seen floating away in the distance as Harry stalks down the road.
* [[A Glass in
* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: Marge talks disparagingly about Harry and his parents as though he weren't there even though he's sitting at the same table. The other Dursleys sometimes do this too, but Marge is particularly bad about it.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Harry is forced to call her "Aunt Marge" even though she isn't a blood relative of his.
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* [[Relative Button]]: Pushing this, or rather pounding on it as hard as she could, was [[Title Drop|Aunt Marge's big mistake]].
Voldemort's father and first murder victim. He was a wealthy nobleman and neighbor to the Gaunts, who he treated with derision for their poverty and disabilities. However, this didn't stop Merope Gaunt from becoming a [[Stalker
Once she was pregnant with his child, she stopped giving him the [[Love Potion]] and came clean about her being a witch, hoping that he had fallen in love with her for real and that he would at least stay for the child's sake if he hadn't. However, Tom responded by abandoning his wife and their unborn child, returning to Little Hangleton, "talking of being 'hoodwinked' and 'taken in'... He left her, never saw her again, and never troubled to discover what became of his son," which later comes back to directly bite him in the ass. Merope went to an orphanage to [[Death
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: He is of British Muggle nobility and, even though he isn't a villain, per se, he is not necessarily a sympathetic character, either, and his actions play a major role in his son's rise to villainy.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Subverted. He is notably good-looking to the point where his wife expresses a wish for their son to look just like him, even after he abandoned them, yet he is not really a "good" character. Yes, he was drugged and coerced into marrying Merope and conceiving a child with her, but then again, he ''did'' knowingly abandon her and his own child.
* [[Child
* [[Karmic Death]]: Tom Riddle Jr., his son who he abandoned before he was born, hunts him down and avenges said abandonment.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: He knowingly abandons his wife along with their unborn child. Granted, he was effectivly raped, but even so...
* [[Patricide]]: He is murdered by his [[Child
* [[Rape
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: He was the victim of this by way of a [[Love Potion]] by [[Yandere|Merope Gaunt]].
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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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