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Topic: Aunt Marge


  
  Dursley family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry's maternal aunt: Petunia Dursley, née Evans is described as being a blonde woman, with bony hands, a horsey face and a very long neck, which she uses to spy on her neighbours.
Aunt Marge thinks Harry is a horrible boy, whose dad was a drunk and mother a fool.
Aunt Marge usually brings her dog Ripper with her to Privet Drive – he pines when he is away from her – and treats him better than she treats most humans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dursleys   (897 words)

  
 HPL: Reader's Guide PA02 - Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
Aunt Marge is all of these things rolled together into one large, mustachioed package, complete with an evil-tempered animal alter-ego with a violent name whom she treats far better than the humans around her.
This chapter is great fun to read and Marge's comeuppance is delicious and perfectly suited to her: a woman whose sense of self-importance is inflated far beyond reason is herself inflated and ends up bobbing about on the ceiling, turned harmless and helpless and utterly laughable.
Since Marge stayed for a week, arriving on 31 July, it is logical that she would be leaving after seven days, on the morning of the eighth day.
www.hp-lexicon.org /about/books/pa/rg-pa02.html   (2994 words)

  
 LITERATURE
Aunt Marge loved criticizing him, so the untidier he looked, the happier she would be.
Aunt Marge, on the other hand, wanted Harry under her eye at all times, so that she could boom out suggestions for his improvement.
Aunt Marge lived in the country, in a house with a large garden, where she bred bulldogs.
www.sip.be /dpb/engels/literatuur/level1.PotterAzkaban.web.htm   (2941 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: DEAR ABBY
I'm having trouble dealing with my Aunt "Marge." She disapproves of the fact that my husband, "Keith," is 40 and I'm 33.
Aunt Marge says I should have married someone my age -- or no more than a year or two older -- because SHE likes men her own age.
If no one has pointed out to Aunt Marge that it's rude to ask people what they do with their money, to drop by unannounced, to give unsolicited advice about personal grooming, and to demand instant gratification when she calls, now is the time.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13514-2004Nov25?language=printer   (680 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Section One
The Dursleys ignore Harry, as usual, and Vernon leaves to pick up his sister, Aunt Marge, at the train station, first warning Harry to pretend that he is "normal." Harry is horrified at the news, as Aunt Marge does nothing during her visits but cuddle her dangerous dogs and bark insults at Harry.
Aunt Marge arrives, roaring praise at Dudley, sharing her tea with her dog, Ripper, and asking Harry whether he is being caned enough at his school.
Finally, one night at dinner Aunt Marge says flippantly that Harry's parents were irresponsible enough to get themselves killed in a car crash, and Harry is so livid that he causes her to expand and float.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/potter3/section1.html   (888 words)

  
 Daughter has been snooping, and what she found upsets her mother | The San Diego Union-Tribune
And while you're at it, be sure your daughter knows that if she has further questions in the future, she's welcome to come to you with them, and you will be sure she gets correct answers.
Aunt Marge gets upset because, when Keith is home, we screen our calls.
DEAR FED UP: If no one has pointed out to Aunt Marge that it's rude to ask people what they do with their money, to drop by unannounced, to give unsolicited advice about personal grooming and to demand instant gratification when she calls, now is the time.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041126/news_1c26abby.html   (595 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Aunt Marge had already had quite a lot of wine.
Aunt Petunia was sipping coffee with her little finger sticking out.
Aunt Marge's voice seemed to be boring into him like one of Uncle Vernon's drills.
books.guardian.co.uk /specialreports/whitbread/story/0,6194,128877,00.html   (771 words)

  
 Chapter Two - The Sugar Quill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Aunt Marge begins to argue with Harry, bringing up the fictive car-crash that was to have killed Lily and James.
Similarly, in the scenes with Aunt Marge, Harry seems less able to control his temper and anger when she repeats hurtful lies about his parents than when she attacks his appearance.
Someone neat and skinny like Petunia probably cannot stand Marge's propensity for drinking until she's red in the face, talking loudly about nonsense, and letting her dog run freely in a house...despite the fact that Marge is exactly like her brother, Petunia's own husband.
www.sugarquill.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=5918   (6161 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Fifth House
Aunt Petunia despised Harry because he was her sister’s son, her sister the witch, the freak.
Aunt Petunia was in an agony of propriety, wondering whether Marge was going to expect her gentleman friend to stay the night, and if so, where he was going to sleep.
Marge the Barge, Dudley sometimes called her, and when he’d been overheard saying it, he’d claimed he was only repeating what Harry had said first.
www.eskimo.com /~vecna/hp_fifth.html   (17282 words)

  
 HPL: Marjorie "Marge" Dursley
Marge looks a lot like Vernon: "large, beefy, and purple-faced, she even ha(s) a mustache, though not as bushy as his." She allows Ripper to slurp tea from her saucer, splattering saliva and tea on Petunia's immaculately clean kitchen floor.
Aunt Marge considers Harry to be inferior in breeding, the way she says a pup would be inferior if it came from inferior stock.
Dudley allows Aunt Marge to cuddle him because he is well paid for it.
www.hp-lexicon.org /muggle/marge.html   (574 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
When loud, annoying Aunt Marge visits the Dursleys and makes some mean comments about Harry, he blows her up with air like a giant balloon.
Aunt Marge coming for a week-long visit - it was the worst birthday present the Dursleys had ever given him, including that pair of Uncle Vernon's old socks.
Aunt Marge thrust the suitcase into Harry's stomach, knocking the wind out of him, seized Dudley in a tight one-armed hug, and planted a large kiss on his cheek.
www.kidsreads.com /harrypotter/book3.html   (3829 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Script at IMSDb.
AUNT MARGE I would've left him with the others, but he pines so when I'm away.
Aunt Marge puckers her lips at Ripper and leads him down the hallway.
Aunt Marge pauses on her wine, eyes narrowing on Harry.
www.imsdb.com /scripts/Harry-Potter-and-the-Prisoner-of-Azkaban.html   (9596 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Aunt Marge was the main person that I interviewed because she has worked at radio stations and sold advertisement to radio stations.
Marge’s sister Pettie terrified her when she would turn out the lights as young Marge would listen in fear to the mystery show “The Shadow Knows”.
Aunt Marge credits FDR as the first American President to use the radio for his political campaigns, particularly his “Fireside Chats”, where the President supposedly talked to the country on the radio from his own living room.
www.creighton.edu /~bricub/radio.html   (1223 words)

  
 Harry Potter facts
Aunt Petunia are already sitting at the kitchen table.
Aunt Marge is telling her brother that her dogs are taken care by Colonel Fubster.
He causes his Aunt Marge to start swelling like a balloon, drifting up in the air.
www.harrypotterfacts.com /3-2.htm   (311 words)

  
 Donna's Cookbook: Meat, Poultry & Fish.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Aunt Marge was a great cook and we had so much fun in Big Bear, California where her sister and my Uncle Frank had a cafe named Hy-Ridge.
Uncle Frank and- Aunt Marge are both gone now and Aunt Faye is living in Fort Mojave, Arizona.
Aunt Marge said that this recipe is from the depression days of the 1930's.
www.linkline.com /personal/shoe62/cookbook/meat/246.html   (230 words)

  
 Biculturalism - Joel on Software
Windows is better because Aunt Marge gets some confirmation that her email was actually sent.
Aunt Marge can't really use Unix, and repeated efforts to make a pretty front end for Unix that Aunt Marge can use have failed, entirely because these efforts were done by programmers who were steeped in the Unix culture.
OS X is the proof: Apple finally created Unix for Aunt Marge, but only because the engineers and managers at Apple were firmly of the end-user culture (which I've been imperialistically calling "the Windows Culture" even though historically it originated at Apple).
www.joelonsoftware.com /articles/Biculturalism.html   (2239 words)

  
 From the editor's desk - Home Front Magazine
My aunt's house had a built-in pool, which was a big deal during the 1960s.
My aunt and uncle's king-size bed was the first I had ever seen of its kind.
My aunt died a number of years ago and I can't remember the last time I visited her in her house.
www.homefrontmagazine.com /editor/july01.html   (351 words)

  
 Harry's Inadvertent Magic
Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barbers looking as though he hadn’t been at all, had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was almost bald except for his fringe, which she left ‘to hide that horrible scar’.
Aunt Petunia had decided it must have shrunk in the wash and, to his great relief, Harry wasn’t punished.
While we’re at it, when Aunt Petunia is trying to force Harry into the ugly jumper, he’s not angry or scared, he just (quite understandably) doesn’t want to wear it, so it shrinks.
www.freewebs.com /anazecria/IM.html   (2907 words)

  
 What Aunt Marge Can Teach You About Ezines
I have a certain relative, let's call her Aunt Marge (mostly because I don't think there's ever been a Marge in the family).
Aunt Marge never met a forward she didn't like.
Aunt Marge teaches us two lessons about effective email newsletters.
www.workoninternet.com /article_811.html   (531 words)

  
 The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2004
When Aunt Marge is inflating and floating to the ceiling, she grabs the table cloth and continues going up and take the cloth with her.
It cuts to a close up of Marge and the cloth does not move, it then moves to the wide shot of the whole table and the cloth continues to move.
The movement of the table cloth and Aunt Marge are consistent.
www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=67459   (216 words)

  
 Aunt Marge - The Sugar Quill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
I was about to say, "Who the heck would want to play Aunt Marge?" But then again, who would want to play Ms.
I reckon JK was inspired by that woman in Matilda.
At least, I was, because right from the start my Aunt Marge in my head looks exactly like that woman.
www.sugarquill.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=1177   (445 words)

  
 Paginatitel
However, he promises to behave himself properly and act just as he were a Muggle, if uncle Vernon promises to sign a form.
He performs a Swelling Charm, which causes aunt Marge to inflate like a giant balloon.
Harry is surprised that Fudge doesn't punish him for the mistake with Aunt Marge.
members.chello.nl /~h.kip/werkstuk/page10.html   (754 words)

  
 Nonfiction:A Tribute To Aunt Marge
This past Saturday, the first words I heard from downstairs were "Aunt Marge died?"
I do not know where I will be when I miss Aunt Marge, but if I had to guess, I would say that it will be when I meet someone who reminds me of her.
That will be tough because I only remember four things about her.
www.teenink.com /Past/1996/7163.html   (530 words)

  
 Movie Spoiler for the film - HARRY POTTER and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The next day, in a flood of rain, Aunt Marge (Pam Ferris) arrives for a visit.
As he plunges downstairs, Uncle Vernon tries to bully Harry into reversing the spell, but Harry pulls his wand on his uncle and leaves Privet Close, with the silhouette of Aunt Marge floating in the distant sunset.
But anger only takes a boy wizard so far, and by the time he reaches a small play park (some swings and other outdoor play equipment), he sits down and starts to wonder what to do.
www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/harryp3.html   (5474 words)

  
 Aunt Marge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The only article I can find on this is a very short one from Ananova (apparently the only kind of article they have!).
IMDb has her listed as "Aunt Marge" on their cast list for PoA.
Of course, this counts for absolute squat, since IMDb 'proved' their reliability by posting Ian McKellen as Dumbledore based on an article in The Sun.
www.geocities.com /zozalee/marge.html   (195 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Aunt Marge's sneer about his mother is the last straw.
I was kind of in shock that Petunia (despite her weakness and hatred) didn't at least try a little bit to defend her sister.
Marge pretty much called her the nasty term of bitch which was shocking, but I think there will be more profanity soon.
www.harrypotterrealm.com /mn_books_03.html   (4771 words)

  
 Aunt Marge's Birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Aunt Margaret gets Happy Birthday hugs from Nick.
After Scandia we went to Cattlemen's restaurant (one of Marge's favorites) for dinner.
We were told that our waitress had a twin sister who also worked there.
www.goldrushgames.com /Nick/MargeBDay2002.html   (153 words)

  
 Uncle Doug & Aunt Marge's Favourite Puppet Friends
A group of students brought Slick Bird and others with them to Canada in the summer of 1990 and ministered to children in various parks.
We call them Sneaky and Squeaky and they are in the Missing Lunch play where Slick Bird tricks them into playing a game while the Teacher is absent from the room.
Designed and created by Rev. and Mrs Dan Dannhauer of Puppets Plus, Henrietta and Henry came to be two of Uncle Doug and Aunt Marge's FRIENDS in 1997.
www3.sympatico.ca /douglas.gilroy/favouritepuppets.htm   (514 words)

  
 News: Dumbledore, Aunt Marge in more 'Azkaban' photos
Aunt Marge looks kind of cartoony though...I hope we see in her later books!
Aunt Marge looked like a cartoon work, I agree with Hairy Potty here.
Those pictures are alright, I agree that the Aunt Marge one looks a little cartoonish.
www.hpana.com /news.17657.html   (1151 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - Mirror Works: What a Larkin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
One of Britain's best-loved character actors, Pam first earned her place in the nation's hearts as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds Of May and went on to take Hollywood by storm as Miss Trunchbull in the Danny DeVito movie Matilda.
She's also set to appear as Aunt Marge in the next Harry Potter film.
Pam and her actor husband Roger Frost have been married for 18 years and live in North London.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/content_objectid=13341927_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-Mirror-Works--What-a-Larkin-name_page.html   (939 words)

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