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== Overview ==
 
'''''Petunia Dursley''''', née Evans, is [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry Potter]]'s aunt (she is [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter|his mother's]] sister). She and her husband [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vernon Dursley|Vernon Dursley]] reluctantly took Harry in as a baby, while they had their own son, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dudley Dursley|Dudley]]. Petunia dislikes Harry's magical abilities and wishes to "stamp it out of him.," Relations between her and Harry have never been good, even though she is providing Harry with protection from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]]partly as longa asresult heof livesthis, withrelations thebetween Dursleys,her and upHarry untilhave hisnever seventeenthbeen birthdaygood.
 
== Role in the Books ==
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We are told that it is Petunia Dursley who finds the infant Harry on the Dursley doorstep. Apparently, it is also Petunia who handles most of the "odd things" happening around Harry: when his hair will not remain cut the way she wants it, she cuts it short, only to have it grow back overnight; she is trying to force a hideous sweater over Harry's head when it mysteriously shrinks to the point that it will not even fit over his hand; and she receives the school reports about odd things happening there, such as Harry climbing on the roof.
 
In the events surrounding Dudley's eleventh birthday and the subsequent appearance of Harry's first Hogwarts letter, Vernon is the center of the action, while Petunia largely backs Vernon up. While Petunia does receive the phone call from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arabella Figg|Mrs. Figg]] saying that she won't be able to look after Harry, and then comforts Dudley in his dismay at having to have Harry along, she thereafter remains largely in the background as Vernon drives them to the zoo, buys treats for Dudley, retrieves Dudley from the snake enclosure, and punishes Harry for this odd event by locking him back in his cupboard under the stairs. And when Harry's Hogwarts letter arrives, it is Vernon who takes it from him and opens it. While Vernon and Petunia do discuss what to do about this letter, it is Vernon who decides that they will simply not answer it. When more letters arrive, Vernon intercepts and destroys them. It is Vernon who, in the end, decides that they must leave the house to escape the letters. Dudley asks Petunia at this point if "Daddy has gone mad"; Petunia does not seem to be able to answer.
 
When the family finally settles in the hut on the island, Petunia still has not had much role in things. When [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] arrives, he tells Harry that his mother, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter|Lily]], Petunia's sister, was an extremely good witch. Petunia, apparently pushed beyond her endurance, bursts out that Lily was a freak, coming home with pockets full of frog spawn, and that she was doted on by her parents. Only Petunia saw what she really was. Petunia's malevolence is only stopped when she mentions that Harry's parents had gotten themselves blown up. Harry interjects that Petunia had told him that his parents had been killed in a car crash, which prompts Hagrid to respond angrily that no car crash could have done anything to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|James]] and Lily Potter. The conversation then is carried by Vernon and Hagrid until Vernon insults Dumbledore. Enraged, Hagrid gives Dudley a pig's tail, and the Dursleys retreat in confusion, leaving Harry and Hagrid the front room.
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=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets|Chamber of Secrets]] ===
 
Harry is not surprised when nobody in the house remembers that it is his birthday. Vernon has important visitors arriving that night, and Petunia and Dudley are called upon to rehearse their lines. Harry is hard-put to avoid laughing at the excesses that they are planning, but Petunia is overcome instead by what she sees as Dudley's brilliance.
 
Later, when Harry is in the garden, Dudley taunts him about having received no mail from his "weird friends at that school". Harry, angered, says he was thinking about how to set the hedge on fire, and starts mumbling nonsense words. Panicking, Dudley calls for his mother; Petunia swings at Harry's head with a soapy frying pan, but misses. As punishment for daring to use magic, Petunia gives Harry a long sequence of tasks to help her cleaning up the house for Vernon's visitors, then sends him up to his room after a very sketchy dinner.
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Still in shock, Petunia now says that Harry will have to stay with them. Over Vernon's protests, and with her voice strengthening as her self-assurance returns, she says that throwing Harry out will look very bad to the neighbours. Vernon, giving in, sends Harry to his room.
 
Harry remains in his room until Vernon receives notification that he may be the winner of the Best-Kept suburbanSuburban Lawn Competition. The Dursleys go off to the competition venue, and Harry departs Privet Drive for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place]] with the Advance Guard.
 
In Harry's conversation with Dumbledore after [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Battle at the Department of Mysteries|the battle at the Ministry]], we learn that the Howler which had changed Petunia's mind so that she overruled Vernon about throwing Harry out was, in fact, sent by Dumbledore.
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=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]] ===
 
Dumbledore tells Harry that he will be arriving to take Harry to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Burrow|The Burrow]] only a fortnight after school ends. Harry only half believes him, and has not told the Dursleys, so Dumbledore's arrival at 11PM comes as a shock to them. At his arrival, Petunia comes out of the kitchen where she has been giving all the surfaces their nightly wipedown, wearing a housedresshouse-dress and rubber gloves. Dumbledore propels a couch into the three Dursleys, forcing them to sit down, then suggesting drinks, summons several glasses of mead, which he sends across the room to the Dursleys. Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley ignore the glasses of mead, which become more insistent as the conversation goes on. Harry notes that one of the glasses is bouncing repeatedly off Vernon's head, spilling its contents in its insistence to be noticed; another must be acting similarly with Petunia. Dumbledore tells Vernon and Petunia that he had expected that they would treat Harry as one of their own children, and was very disappointed that they had not; however, he was pleased that Harry had not been as badly treated as the child sitting between them. Both Petunia and Vernon look around, appearing to think that Dumbledore was referring to someone other than Dudley. When Dumbledore summons [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher|Kreacher]] in an attempt to determine whether the house at Grimmauld Place has passed to Harry, as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius]] had intended, Harry sees Petunia's look of revulsion, and thinks that nothing as dirty as Kreacher had likely ever been in her house.
 
Petunia says very little during this visit of Dumbledore's, and Harry does not return to Privet Drive in this book.
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Petunia acts completely differently towards her son, Dudley, showering him with gifts and making nearly infinite allowances for his desires. It is hard to know how much of this is from affection, and how much is from fear; it seems Dudley is quite capable of hitting Petunia and does so when provoked.
 
It is hard to determine Petunia's actual feelings, if any, towards her husband, Vernon. It does seem that she discourages intimacy. One gets the feeling almost that Petunia has gotten married because that is what people do, rather than forout of any particular affection for the man she is married to.
 
== Analysis ==
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