When the Weasleys came to pick up Harry by the Floo Network , she became frightened and did not know how to react when in the presence of wizards, especially after when they accidentally destroyed her living room by blowing up their electric fireplace when attempting to travel with Floo Powder.
When the Weasleys were leaving, her son ate a Ton-Tongue Toffee deliberately left on the floor by Fred and George Weasley , causing his tongue to swell wildly; Petunia became hysterical at the sight of her son in such pain, resulting in Arthur Weasley fixing Dudley's tongue and repairing their living room. Petunia with her husband and son after Dudley was attacked by dementors.
During the summer of , Petunia and Vernon were suspicious of how Harry would constantly listen to the news, as they were ignorant of how Voldemort had returned , and that Harry was listening to see if Voldemort would launch attacks upon the Muggle world. She and Vernon were also totally ignorant of their son's Dudley's anti-social behaviour with his gang in the neighbourhood, incorrectly believing he was having dinner with his friend's families instead. That summer, Dudley and Harry were attacked by Dementors and were only saved by Harry performing underage magic.
She unintentionally revealed some knowledge of the wizarding world by telling Vernon what Dementors were. When asked how she knew, she said that she heard " that awful boy " and Lily talking about them although Harry assumed at the time that she was referring to his father, due to his ignorance of Snape's childhood friendship with his mother. However, they were greeted by members of the Order of the Phoenix , who ordered them to start treating Harry reasonably at home, especially after Alastor Moody frightened them with his magical eye.
They told the Dursleys that if not, Harry would write to them, and that they would pay them a visit; this threat worked well, scaring Petunia and Vernon into treating Harry decently for a change. In the summer of , the Dursleys were visited by Albus Dumbledore at their house, who came to inform them and Harry of Sirius Black 's Sirius Black's will , in wake of his godfather's death. Petunia was shocked with the sudden arrival of Dumbledore, who complimented her flourishing agapanthus in the garden.
When she and her family refused to drink Dumbledore's levitating drinks out of fear, the drinks simply emptied their contents over their heads. She and her husband were very surprised to be informed that Harry had inherited 12 Grimmauld Place , and were terrified when the House-elf Kreacher apparated into their living room suddenly but briefly.
Dumbledore also admonished Vernon and Petunia for abusing Harry growing up, and for how their spoiling of Dudley had emotionally damaged their child irrevocably. Dumbledore took Harry with him afterwards, and Harry stayed the remainder of the summer at The Burrow with the Weasleys.
In the summer of , the blood protection on Harry was due to expire. Petunia saying goodbye to her home and to Harry. Just before the group left Privet Drive, Petunia watched her son offer the first words of acceptance Harry had ever heard from a Dursley and she burst into tears on Dudley.
Petunia walked towards the door to leave, looked back at Harry and opened her mouth to speak, but shortly after she pursed them back up and walked out. Petunia had wanted to wish Harry luck with his quest, but suppressed it and left Privet Drive with her family. They went into hiding from Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort , who probably would have tried to torture them into giving away Harry's whereabouts, and would have most likely killed them regardless.
In later life, her only son Dudley married and had at least two children , making her a grandmother and mother-in-law to Dudley's wife. Harry has said to have been on "Christmas card" terms with Dudley and his family and went to visit them occasionally, which his children hated.
At some point before , Petunia passed away for unknown reasons. It was revealed that she kept the blanket that Harry was brought to her in when he was a baby, which was given back to him after her death. Petunia was a thin, blonde-haired woman with " nearly twice the usual amount of neck.
She had "large, pale" eyes, [20] the colour of which were unknown. It is unlikely that she shared her sister's bright green eyes, since they are very notable and the oft-made comparison between Lily and Harry's eyes was never made between Petunia and her sister or Harry. It is possible that, like her son , she had blue eyes however.
Petunia was a nosy, hostile and repressed woman who, like her husband, was fanatically obsessed with "appearing normal". Petunia hated and was very much afraid of magic, and, indeed, anything out of the ordinary.
She blindly doted on her son Dudley, but shunned Harry throughout his entire childhood because of his " peculiarities ". In her spare time, Petunia often spied on her neighbours, and enjoyed gossiping about their often sordid secrets to her husband, and possibly her friends. Much like the rest of the Dursley family , she was a spiteful bully, who took pleasure in abusing her nephew Harry, stemming from her resentment towards her sister Lily, Harry's mother. She cruelly mistreated and neglected Harry throughout most of his childhood, often calling him a "freak" and never showed any compassion towards him, whilst constantly spoiling and praising her son Dudley.
Petunia was shown to be unpleasant and contemptuous even as a child, as she frequently insulted her sister as a "freak" due to her magical abilities and her sneering towards a young Severus Snape due to his shabby clothes and lower-class background. Petunia was very house proud and was obsessed with keeping it clean, as she constantly kept her home clean and tidy, even to the point of cleaning the kitchen worktop surfaces before bed. Petunia was responsible for Dudley's anti-social personality, along with her husband, due to their spoiling of him.
She was also unable to realise her son Dudley's complete lack of positive qualities, and believed him to be a gifted and clever boy who was misunderstood by his teachers whilst ironically shunning Harry , despite the fact he received abysmal school results.
Petunia shocked to see numerous owls delivering Hogwarts acceptance letters for Harry. At the heart of Petunia's character was her secret regret at having not been born a witch like her sister.
As a child, Petunia was both frightened of and envious of her sister's astonishing abilities. She also heavily felt that her parent's favoured Lily over her, resulting in feelings of being ignored and unappreciated by them.
When Lily was accepted into Hogwarts, Petunia wrote a letter to Professor Dumbledore begging him to take her as well. He rejected her kindly, but when Lily discovered the exchange, Petunia only said that she " didn't want to go to that 'freak' school anyway ", when in reality she was very upset at realising she had no magical abilities herself.
In addition, Petunia was understandably devastated upon learning of her sister's death, and had deep feelings of sadness inside her for never reconciling with her before she died. Petunia frequently referred to witches and wizards as "freaks". However, never did she forget that Harry was her sister's son. She begrudgingly gave him room and board for sixteen years because she knew that her home was the only place that he could be safe from the hands of Voldemort.
Although she did feel some compassion and love for her nephew deep down, she was too repressed inside to ever express such emotions and was unable to say anything to him before they all departed from 4 Privet Drive in , showing she was never able to let go of her resentment.
Due to having grown up with wizards, Petunia had a somewhat greater familiarity with magic than Vernon. For example, she surprised her family by revealing that she had known about Azkaban from overhearing discussions between her sister and " that awful boy ".
Another example of her crude and ignorant comprehension of the wizarding world was her belief that her deplorable mistreatment of her nephew could suppress any " abnormality " in his system, [2] while in fact magic is innate and inherited. Lily Potter , her younger sister. It is unknown what kind of relationship Petunia has with her parents, though she seems resentful of them for keeping Lily and her special talents in high regard.
Petunia may have felt left out or lesser in comparison to her sister this may have contributed even more to her intense dislike of magic. It is known that they had died by the time Petunia had a son.
Lily Evans was Petunia's only sibling. When Lily's magical abilities began to manifest themselves, Petunia was torn between curiosity and disapproval. Their relationship became even more strained when Lily became friends with Severus Snape , the very peculiar boy next door. When Lily was admitted to Hogwarts , Petunia secretly wrote to Professor Dumbledore begging him to let her attend as well. After being kindly rejected by him, Petunia began calling wizards and witches "weirdos" and denied the existence of her sister as much as possible.
She would not admit it, but deep inside her, Petunia still cared for Lily, sending her sister a vase however horrible in Lily's opinion one Christmas and was in all probability devastated when her sister was murdered. As James didn't have a family, it was Petunia who arranged the funeral for her sister and brother-in-law and had them buried in Godric's Hollow , and also took in their son, Harry Potter , for his protection. In truth, Petunia may have wanted to make amends with her only sister, but to her everlasting regret meant she never got the chance.
Her taking in of Harry was likely out of her regret for not having made up with her sister and did so to honour her sacrifice. After being given Harry, Petunia kept Lily's blanket, in which he was wrapped, for the rest of her life as aside from Harry it was all of her sister she had left.
Vernon Dursley , her husband. Petunia met Vernon Dursley at work and married him sometime later. She and Vernon ignored Harry as much as possible and excluded him from most of the family activities.
They were extremely vain, materialistic, and preoccupied with status. They gave Dudley everything he wanted, allowing him to rule the house. Conversely, they kept strict control over Harry; he performed the chores, cooked the meals or at least breakfast , and spent time otherwise locked in the cupboard under the stairs.
After Harry re-entered the wizarding world, Petunia and Vernon's control over him diminished. It is unknown if Vernon knew that his wife wanted to attend Hogwarts herself in the past, about her previously close relationship with Lily, or her childhood with the wizard Severus Snape. Given the fact that Petunia had always wanted to appear 'normal', it is likely that she did not tell him. It explains about Lily's passing and the circumstances that protect Harry and the Dursleys while he lives with them.
Because she is a blood relative of Lily's, Petunia's blood acts as a protection against Voldemort. On a lighter note, one major thing that only book readers are privy to is the fact that Petunia is blonde. Weird, right? It's hard to imagine Fiona Shaw as a brightly-haired housewife. Nevertheless, in the books, J. Rowling writes,. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful. Petunia tries to avoid the wizarding world at all costs.
Despite her best efforts, however, she is still forced into random meetings with various witches and wizards. She briefly sees Ron in Harry's second year, during his infamous escape, and even Dumbledore drops in for a visit later down the line. In one of her most memorable magical encounters, the Weasleys pop into the Dursley's living room via Floo Powder. Molly Weasley had previously written to the Dursleys to ask their permission to take Harry for the summer so that he could go to the Quidditch World Cup.
That's why the entire Weasley clan comes to scoop Harry up. On top of the visitors ruining the Dursley's fireplace, Fred and George also left Dudley a Ton-Tongue Toffee, which causes his tongue to swell immensely. After Dudley is attacked by Dementors, Aunt Petunia lets slip that she knows more about the wizarding world than she lets on.
When Vernon sees the state his son is in after a run-in with these creatures, he asks Harry what Dementors are. To everyone's surprise, it's Petunia who answers. She remembers "that awful boy" meaning James Potter mentioning Dementors being the guards of Azkaban, the wizard prison. After the Dementor attack, Vernon is so outraged he demands that Harry leave. Before he has a chance to react, a Howler is sent whizzing into the Dursley home. It's addressed to Petunia and, considering the nature of Howlers, the entire household gets to hear its contents.
Dumbledore simply tells Petunia to, "remember my last. This, of course, is in reference to the letter he sent with Harry as a child, about the protection that Petunia offers. Dumbledore later explains the full extent of the situation by telling Harry, "You need return there only once a year, but as long as you can still call it home, there he cannot hurt you.
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