Did Vernon ever meet James?

The couple's first meeting with Lily and her boyfriend, James Potter, went poorly. Vernon tried to impress James with the car he drove and when James responded by describing his racing broom, Vernon assumed he must be living on unemployment.
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Did Vernon ever care about Harry?

Vernon, his wife and his son all left together: he did not care what would happen to Harry and it was Dudley, who had grown to respect Harry for saving his soul, who brought up the issue, though Vernon said little to Harry.
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Did Petunia go to Harry's wedding?

And the Dursleys didn't attend the Potters' marriage ceremony. "[Petunia] and Vernon chose not to attend Lily and James' wedding. The very last piece of correspondence she received from Lily and James was the announcement of Harry's birth, and after one contemptuous look, Petunia threw it in the bin."
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Did Vernon know about wizards?

We know that Vernon knows about magic before the events of The Philosopher's Stone. If I remember correctly, it was revealed on Pottermore that Petunia revealed it to him.
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Did Vernon abuse Harry?

1 VERNON PHYSICALLY ABUSING HARRY IN ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

While emotional and verbal abuse and neglect can be just as damaging as physical abuse in many ways, physical abuse is awful and scary. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Vernon tries strangles Harry after he thinks that Harry has just done magic.
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Is Aunt Petunia ever nice to Harry?

Petunia never showed any love and affection at all towards Harry because he reminded her of Lily and the wizarding world. She treated him as a waste of space, often abusing him, giving him the cupboard under the stairs at first and making him do all the chores. She, along with Vernon, ignored most of Harry's birthdays.
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Did the Dursleys hate Harry because he was a Horcrux?

As for the Dursleys, a convincing fan theory held that, because Horcruxes can influence those around them and Voldemort had made one out of Harry, the Dursleys' dislike of him was exacerbated by Voldemort's magic.
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Did Aunt Petunia want to go to Hogwarts?

The Hogwarts headmaster sent a kindly response to Petunia when she wrote to him as a child, begging to join Hogwarts. After Dumbledore's gentle rejection, 'Tuney' started referring to her sister as a 'freak.
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Who did Dudley Dursley marry?

Mrs Dursley was the wife of Dudley Dursley: the couple had two children. When her husband's cousin Harry Potter visited them with his family, their children would play while Dudley and Harry sat together quietly.
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How old is Crookshanks?

Later life. Crookshanks lived to be a very old age, but at some point between 1997 and 2021, he passed away.
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Did Petunia want to be a witch?

Petunia wanted to be a witch: Rowling reveals that, “Petunia had some latent feelings of guilt about the way she had cut Lily (whom she knew, in her secret heart, had always loved her) out of her life.” She also says that Petunia always held out hope that she would show signs of magic “and be spirited off to Hogwarts.”
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Does Dudley have a magical child?

5 J.K. ROWLING ALMOST GAVE HIM A MAGICAL CHILD

Rowling talked about how she almost gave Dudley a magical child himself. She considered having him be at Platform 9 ¾ during the epilogue. However, she decided not to do so because she thought Vernon's DNA would have killed out any trace of magical blood.
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Was Petunia a squib?

The fan asked the author if Aunt Petunia was a Squib (a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent) and Rowling replied: "Good question. No, she is not, she is not a Squib. She is a Muggle.
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Why was Harry's aunt so mean?

Rowling also revealed the reasons behind the characters' names, explaining that they were names she never cared for and associated with unpleasantness. It has been previously theorised that the Dursleys hated Harry because he was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes – thus the magic around him warped their minds.
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Why did Aunt Petunia let Harry stay?

Probably she thought Harry was her sister's last memory or Lily's last gift or the last responsibility for an Elder sister and she felt pity for what happened to HER YOUNGER SISTER, though Lily was different from Petunia, she had Lily in a little corner of her heart.
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Who is worse Vernon or Petunia?

Petunia Dursley, or Petunia Evans was much worse than her husband Vernon, for one categorically, undeniable reason… She knew. Growing up with Lily Potter, Petunia experienced what it was like to live with someone with magical powers they didn't understand.
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Who does Seamus Finnigan marry?

In 1997 he continued his seventh year of education at Hogwarts, although the school was under the control of Voldemort. Seamus remained in the D.A. and fought bravely in the Battle of Hogwarts. after the Second Wizarding War he married with Lily Moon Daughter of Mr Moon,The two of them have two sons Harbeth and Apus.
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Who married Oliver Wood?

Oliver's wife, Rebecca Wood (@heartsinthemix), found her calling during the recording of #TheMuse.
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Who sent remember my last Petunia?

Albus Dumbledore felt that the attack had "awoken her to the dangers of having Harry Potter as a surrogate son". He sent Petunia a howler telling her to remember the last letter.
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What is the age difference between Lily and Petunia?

Petunia is likely one to two years older than Lily (but possibly as much as five years older)
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Is Lily Potter older than Petunia?

Petunia was the oldest child of Muggles Mr. and Mrs. Evans, and had a sister, Lily, who was younger than she.
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What was in Vault 713?

At the beginning of the first book, Gringotts Vault 713, a higher-security vault, held a small grubby bag, which we later learn contains the Philosopher's Stone. Albus Dumbledore sends Hagrid to retrieve it while he escorts Harry to Diagon Alley.
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Was James Potter a bully?

James was a bully in school — to the point that even the biggest of James Potter apologists can't deny this. He mercilessly teased Snape, and in one particularly horrific memory, hung him upside down and exposed him in front of the entire school.
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Is Dudley ever nice to Harry?

And this perhaps comes from Dudley's chief sources of influence: mum and dad. Dudley's parents treated Harry terribly, and the spoilt cousin never intervened, encouraging them at many points because he received 'cupboard love' (that is, an insincere form of affection in return for something) from them.
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