Vernon proposed to Petunia in his mother's sitting room in late 1977. Vernon also took a fancy to Petunia and the two went on a number of dates, which mainly involved Vernon discussing himself and his narrow views of the world. This led to her getting a clerical job, where she met Vernon Dursley, a junior executive whose complete ordinariness she found appealing. The one fly in her delicious ointment was the fear of what her new fiancé would make of her sister, who was now in her final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." - Petunia's predicament with Vernon Īt some point in the early 1970s, Petunia left her home in Cokeworth to pursue a typing course in London. " When, in due course, Vernon Dursley proposed marriage, very correctly, on one knee in his mother’s sitting room, Petunia accepted at once. From that point on, Petunia wanted nothing to do with magic or the wizarding world and frequently called Lily a "freak". Dumbledore responded saying that Petunia could not study at Hogwarts due to her being a Muggle and even though he responded kindly, Petunia felt hurt and left out. When Lily received a letter from Hogwarts confirming that she was a witch, Petunia wrote to Albus Dumbledore asking if she could also study there too. If she did, it was likely she was scornful of it. Snape, later on, also developed a crush on Lily, which Petunia may have known about or not. Lily, however, was intrigued by Snape and soon became good friends with him. Severus Snape was a boy who also lived in the town of Cokeworth who possessed similar abilities and the two (Petunia and Snape) treated each other disdainfully. Petunia and her younger sister Lily as children However, Lily had many unusual abilities, such as making a flower's petals move without touching them, which her sister viewed with a mixture of envy and disapproval - these emotions were heightened when her parents praised Lily for her magical abilities more and more and Petunia got even more jealous. Petunia was the eldest child of Muggles Mr and Mrs Evans and had a sister, Lily. a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!" - Petunia regarding her's and Lily's childhood I was the only one who saw her for what she was.
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that school - and came home every holiday with her pockets full of frog-spawn, turning tea-cups into rats. " Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that. She died sometime before 2020, although the cause of death and when exactly she died was unknown. Through her nephew's marriage to Ginny Weasley, she had two great-nephews, James Sirius and Albus Severus Potter, the former named after her late brother-in-law, and a great-niece, Lily Luna Potter, named after her late sister. She and her family left their home in 1997 in order to be protected from Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.Īfter the Second Wizarding War, her son married and she had two grandchildren. In 1991, when Rubeus Hagrid came and said that Harry would go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she became very angry at the fact her nephew had discovered his true magical heritage. She neglected and treated him cruelly for the most part (mainly due to her aversion to the Potters being wizards), and confined him to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs (although she allowed him a room of his own after receiving his acceptance letters to Hogwarts in order to attempt to trick Hogwarts into not sending letters). However, when Lily was murdered by Voldemort, Petunia became guardian of her nephew, Harry Potter, who was only an infant then.
She married a Muggle, Vernon Dursley and they had a son, Dudley. During her childhood, she became resentful of her sister for being a witch, broke off contact with her sister and refused to have any contact with the wizarding world. Petunia Dursley (née Evans) (pre 1960 – pre 2020) was an English Muggle woman, the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Evans and the older sister of the Muggle-born witch Lily Potter. " Mrs Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be." - Petunia's aversion to anything magical
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