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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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Word of God]] states that Dudley was almost written into the Ninteen Years Later King's Cross scene with a magical child, but the author decided that no magic would survive contact with Vernon Dursley's DNA.

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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.

* [[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 with a Crush]] on him. When Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt were imprisoned in Azkaban for crimes against Muggles, Merope took that opportunity to brew a [[Love Potion]] [[Slipping a Mickey|and drug him with it]], using the infatuation it induced in him for her to trick him into marrying and conceiving a child with her.

* [[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.