Dudley dursley and the quest for truth ch 1, harry potter by books101 this one picks up right where we leave the dursleys in deathly hallows and follows dudley while he stays in a safe h. Rowling writes in the novel that for a moment harry had the strangest. Rowling reveals dursleys secrets in new harry potter. He and his gang often tormented harry, taking after the example set by. Aside from voldemort and malfoy, the dursley family were harry potters worst enemies in the series. Petunia petted and coddled him and turned a blind eye to his. He was obese and insolent as a result of his parents spoiling him throughout his childhood, although he became muscular in his teens. At harry and ginnys wedding, dudley discovers that every girl in the wizarding world wants to meet famous harry potters cousin. Harry potters dudley dursley actor shocked fans with his dark materials role. Petunia evans, forever embittered by the fact that her. 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. Jk rowling reveals new dursley writing on pottermore telegraph. On what marks the 35th birthday of dudley dursley, j. Petunia dursley, the sister of harrys mother, and her husband vernon.
What are the best dudley dursley fanfiction stories. Rowling, harry potter and the sorcerers stone tags. Open book tour, morning appearance, nyc, october 19, 2007. Harry potter s bratty cousin dudley dursley is all grown up and looking very different to the chubby youngster we all know and love. Dudley dersley started the harry potter series as an antagonist, but that doesnt mean. I know the dursleys hate anything magic but it would be fascinating to see and hear their reactions to. A muggle family with which harry potter lives after being orphaned in 1981. The twochildren of dudley dursley and his wife were muggles. The dursley family are harry potters last living relatives.
Rowling has unveiled five new harry potterrelated essays on her website, pottermore, and. Going into the wizarding world where hed be in harrys shadow instead, i think would have 2 major effects on him. Harry and dudley would still see each other enough to be on christmascard terms, but they would visit more out of a sense of duty and sit in silence so that their children could see their cousins. The dursleys are the muggle family that has raised harry since he was orphaned when he was one year old. She has also collaborated on a stage play, harry potter and the cursed child parts one and two, which opened in londons west end in the summer of 2016. Continue english with the dursleys in harry potter and the philosophers stone part 1 4. The dursleys live at number 4, privet drive, little whinging in surrey, england.
Jk rowling reveals why the dursleys dislike harry potter so much. Harry potter star harry melling dudley dursley shows. Jk rowling has finally shed light on exactly why harry potters uptight privet. While the two of them played with james, albus, and lily, the childrens fathers, harry and dudley, would sit silently together as they were on christmas card terms. Click the button below to start this article in quick view. How to pronounce dudley dursley cousin harry potter books. The dursleys are as bigoted about wizards as the malfoys are about muggles. Tap to play or pause gif warner brothers via pawneeparksandrec. Aunt petunia often said that dudley looked like a baby angel harry often said that dudley looked like a pig in a wig. He shows that he disagrees with his parents that harry is a waste of space 3. Quite why uncle vernon and aunt petunia dursley had such a problem with the.
Adudley dursley cousin harry potter books movies cast characters. Dudley is fat, spoiled, and constantly rude to harry but becomes more fearful of him after rubeus hagrid gives him a pigs tail. The family consists of vernon dursley, his wife petunia, their son dudley, and vernons sister, marge. Dudley dursleyharry potter works archive of our own. Petunia dursley was the sister of harrys mom lily, but she couldnt be more different from her kindly, magical sister. Harrys mother, lily evans potter, was petunia evans dursleys younger sister. Dudley, in extreme contrast to harry, was grossly overindulged by both his mother and father.
Dudley dursley is the son of vernon and petunia dursley. How to pronounce dudley dursley harry potter characters. Harry potter star harry melling on weight loss and his new role at the national theatre harry potter star harry melling on life after dudley dursley photo. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting. Dudley says thank you to harry in the last book by telling him hes not a waste of space. Due to your generosity, we reached our goal on day one. Rowling has revealed the backstories of vernon, dudley and petunia dursley. Harry melling started acting at the age of 10 in the harry potter films playing the role of dudley. First, dudley would feel extremely threatened by harry, and would likely increase his angry and hateful actions against harry. He lived at 4 privet drive since birth, but eventually moved out with his family in the seventh book. Dudley dursley in harry potter and the deathly hallows. In harry potter and the halfblood prince, when dumbledore visits privet drive to pick up harry, he tells the dursleys you did not do as i asked.
To ensure harrys safety, albus dumbledore placed him in the dursleys care when he was a baby. This is what dudley dursley from harry potter looks like now. They are all muggles, and despise all things related to magic and anything out of the ordinary in general and the wizarding world. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone harry potter series. Petunia dursley nee evans was the older sister of harry s mother, lily potter nee evans, but took the surname dursley when she married vernon dursley. When dudley dursley and his parents are forced to spend a year withgasp. Rowling has released new information on pottermore about harry potters miserable aunt and uncle. Dudley dursley is a harry potter minifigure who physically debuted in 2020.
Dudley dursleys eleventh birthday harry potter wiki. He was spoiled by his mother and father and was often called popkins or ickle diddykins by petunia. He played a young thespian with no arms or legs in the coen brothers 2018 film the ballad of buster scruggs. In the harry potter storyline he is harry potters muggle nonmagic person cousin. Jk rowling finally reveals why the dursleys hated harry potter so. Richard griffiths as vernon dursley, harry melling as dudley and fiona shaw as aunt petunia.
Petunia evans, forever embittered by the fact that her parents. Hold onto your hats because harry melling, the guy who played dudley, got older. Jk rowling has revealed the back story behind the dursleys violent dislike of their nephew harry potter in a new piece of writing for her website, pottermore as well as the reasoning behind. Rowling celebrated the 35th birthday of harry potters cousin dudley dursley on tuesday, june 23, by penning a new origin story. Rowling has unveiled five new harry potterrelated essays on her website, pottermore, and one story about the dursleys is setting the internet alight in the new writing, rowling reveals the. Harry edward melling born march 1989 is an english actor, best known for playing dudley dursley in the harry potter films. They have no idea what harry goes through every year. Harry potters dudley dursley actor surprises fans with. Vernon, petunia, and dudley dursley in harry potter and.
Dudley dursley from the harry potter films looks extremely. Receive a special member icon and vote in otw elections. But there is only one woman dudley is interested in getting to know. Did anyone ever care for the wretched cousin of harry potter. Rowlings digital company pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features, and articles, as well as original content from j. The vanishing glass on dudley s birthday, aunt petunia woke his nephew up, who slept under the stairs, to make him get ready for her sons big day. Not only was he beyond spoiled by his parents, petunia and vernon dursley, but he was a bully who repeatedly. Jk rowling reveals why the dursleys dislike harry potter so much this article is more than 4 years old writing on the pottermore website, author sets out back story of resentment and prejudice. This fan theory explains why the dursleys were so awful to. Learn the proper way to say and pronounce the name dudley dursley in english. The dursley family is a muggle family, and the only known living close relatives of harry potter. Harry melling, 30, has had a surge of acting work as he stars on his dark materials and the war of the worlds and. Dudley received 36 presents, including a new computer, a second television, a remote control aeroplane, sixteen new computer games, a gold wristwatch, a video recorder, a cinecamera, a remote control, a racing bicycle, which harry found odd, as dudley was very fat and hated exercise if it did not include punching. Rowling reveals dursleys secrets in new harry potter writing.
They would occasionally be visited by their magical second cousins, the two sons and daughter of their fathers cousin harry potter. Rereading the series for the first time in a few years and i had imagined of the dursleys were to read the books. Jk rowling reveals why the dursleys dislike harry potter. In the book, but not in the movie fred weasley gives him a tontongue toffee. After a trip to the zoo goes sour, marigold is in for the shock of her life as a hogwarts letter sits, waiting menacingly in the mail. Dudley dursley s eleventh birthday was celebrated on 23 june, 1991 history. Dudley acts supierior to harry until harry fights off the dementor in harry potter and the order of the pheonix. She writes that the inspiration for the couple came from a series of public information commercials. Dudley dursley is harry potters muggle cousin, and the only son of vernon and petunia dursley of number four privet drive, little whinging, surrey.