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Vernon Dursley
Harry’s cousin and Vernon and Petunia’s son. Dudley is slightly older than Harry and is spoiled rotten by his parents. He gets anything he wants (whether that be food, presents, or a second bedroom while Harry lives in a cupboard). Like his parents, he believes that Harry is very odd, and thus often makes fun of him and picks on him at school, exacerbating Harry’s feeling that he doesn’t belong. Dudley also underscores how greediness is associated with “bad” characters; while Dudley isn’t necessarily evil, his greediness corrodes his character.
Dudley Dursley Quotes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone quotes below are all either spoken by Dudley Dursley or refer to Dudley Dursley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.
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Chapter 2
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The problem was, strange things often happened around Harry and it was just no good telling the Dursleys he didn’t make them happen.
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At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley’s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley’s gang.
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Dudley Dursley Quotes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone quotes below are all either spoken by Dudley Dursley or refer to Dudley Dursley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.
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Chapter 2
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The problem was, strange things often happened around Harry and it was just no good telling the Dursleys he didn’t make them happen.
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At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley’s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley’s gang.
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