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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction | Wizards.pro Vernon Dursley goes to work, but finds several peculiarities in town, such as strangely dressed people in town and a cat reading a map. After the Dursleys turn in, an elderly man named Albus Dumbledore appears at their home and the cat transforms into Minerva McGonagall. Harry returns to the Dursleys for the summer, but decides to not tell them about the ban on using magic during the summer, so as to keep them from abusing him. encyclopedia.wizards.pro /index.php/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher's_Stone   (935 words)

SparkNotes: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Chapter 4 Dursley and Hagrid sharply illustrates the contrast between the world of wizards and the world of ordinary Muggles. Dursley clings to his dominant role in the family with a pathetic desperation, but we see that Harry, like any boy in his right mind, prefers to associate with the dynamic and direct Hagrid. Dursley and Hagrid can hardly be called a power struggle, as Hagrid is so easily the victor in the standoff between the two men. www.sparknotes.com /lit/harrypotter/section4.rhtml   (601 words)

harrypotter The Dursley’s are very ordinary people and Mr Dursley seems to be rather an unpleasant sort of man. No prizes for spotting the influence of Roald Dahl straight away with the opening description of the Dursley family. Dursley is an abusive man, who is mistreating a child and what he gets is his comeuppance. All three of the Dursley’s are abandoned in the middle of the sea and a strong protector rescues Harry. www.litnotes.co.uk /harrypotter.htm   (6517 words)

HARRY POTTER AND THE LAW Family law has many facets; it is an amalgam of legal rules and principles. Rowling's obvious fascination with different family structures and her relatively strong sense of an isolated, private sphere that is free of state intervention seems in keeping with traditional liberal values of the public/private divide. Yet her rejection of state interference in the private sphere of the family does not correspond to an autonomous state that is focused on the public sphere. tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/txwesleyan/potter.html   (14523 words)

Movies - Dursley family 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. Evans were proud of having a witch in the family, but Petunia saw her sister as a freak (perhaps out of jealousy towards her sister whom she referred to as being 'perfect' at one point. He is the only child of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, a nephew to Marjorie Dursley and Lily Evans (respectively his father's and mother's sisters), and nephew-by-marriage to James Potter. listing-index.ebay.com /movies/Dursley_family.html   (804 words)

Dursley family - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) 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. Her whole family was made up of Muggles, except for her sister Lily who was a Muggle-born witch. He is the only child of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, a nephew to Marjorie Dursley and Lily Evans (respectively his father's and mother's sisters), and nephew-by-marriage to James Potter. www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Dudley_Dursley   (917 words)

Dursley Dursley nestles amidst beautiful scenery on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment, above the Vale of Berkeley and the River Severn. Dursley is situated in the administrative district of Stroud in the county of Gloucestershire. Dursley is twinned with the town of Bovenden, near Göttingen in Germany. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_kaye/dursley.htm   (668 words)

Adoption - Is Family Heritage a Human Right? Many adoptees find the denial of their true family by their adopters and others in society to be an insult. Heritage and the family bond is essential to the identity of all the characters in the Harry Potter books. After having searched in vain for decades for their true family, many adoptees discover after their adopters have passed away that the adopters had in their possession identifying information that could have helped the adoptees locate their parents. www.exiledmothers.com /speaking_out/heritage.htm   (1329 words)

The Sugar Quill The Dursleys have clumped themselves in the middle of the room, Petunia beside her husband, young Dudley making a valiant effort to hide behind the two of them. Dursley’s forehead, which has been abnormally large all evening (one must wonder if that is a permanent feature on his face) grows ever larger at an alarming rate. Dursley, his eyes fit to escape the confines of their sockets, hastily draws his feet up from the ground. www.sugarquill.net /read.php?storyid=2796&chapno=1   (3217 words)

For the Disbeliever Dursley to be a pompous, prejudiced, overbearing nuisance who was to be endured with sweetness and grace. Dursley began saying such horrible things about her nephew two weeks before the boy was to come home, she felt she had to say something. When her eavesdropping charm let her know that the Dursley's were finally wising up she did a happy dance and sent a message with one of Arabella's cats to let her know to floo Albus that a.) the Dursley's were catching a clue and b.) Harry was on the move. www.angelfire.com /goth2/hanfic   (9159 words)

Dursley - Family History, Genealogy, Surnames and Local History. Thomas came from a family of 5 from the Hawkesbury area.His ancestors were believed to have been Quakers and had been in Ireland. Most of the family eventually moved away from Cromhall to places such as Tortworth,Tytherington,Stone, Berkeley and to other counties and overseas including Jonah who was transported to Tasmania(Van Diemens Land as a convict. Porter, Humphris Families From Didbrook, In Gloucestershire - Didbrook www.curiousfox.com /history/gloucestershire_18.html   (1851 words)

Collected Works of Semony Lnicket by x2pttrclue32 Dursley wanted nothing to do with this family and wanted nobody to find out that they were related to such people; it was the only imperfect part in their picture perfect lives. Dursley was saying as he picked up his briefcase and tried to give his son a small hug, but this proved to be very difficult. Dursley immediately swung his head around to look at the cat again, but the map was gone. fanfiction.mugglenet.com /viewstory.php?sid=13822   (2760 words)

Biography of Mikael Pedersen _::_ Dursley Pedersen In 1918, Ingeborg left Dursley with the children and moved to London, her instrument production ceased, and she lost almost all her savings so that she was dependent on help form her family in Denmark. The house in Dursley was sold with all its contents and Ingeborg went back to Denmark where she lived with the family at Stege-Lendemark. Mikael Pedersen exhumed from an unmarked pauper's grave in Denmark, was reburied in Dursley cemetery yesterday. www.dursley-pedersen.net /mp_bio.html   (4354 words)

South Cotswolds Town guides from the Gazette Series Dursley sits above the Vale of Berkeley and the River Severn on the south-west edge of the Cotswold Hills. Built by the Estcourt family in 1738, it's ground floor opens out to the street through arches mounted on pillars. One of the town's claims to fame is as the home to the famous 'Dursley Pedersen' bicycle. www2.newsquest.co.uk /dursley/info/town_guide/dursley.html   (451 words)

RECORDS OF THE VIZARD FAMILY OF DURSLEY GLOUCESTERSHIRE The Almshouses in Dursley were built by the family during the Victorian period, and one wall of the Church is covered with their Memorials. The family nose is long and straight with a slightly flattened tip, and the forefingers are unusually long, being nearly as long as the middle finger. During those years there were several families of Mother’s brothers and sisters living near by Uncle Andrew and his family, Aunt Bella and her two daughters, and Aunt Wese were all in the district. www.anotherurl.com /photos/family/old_hubbard/tree/vizard/record.htm   (5485 words)

Pastor John Wright Dursley's description, the second paragraph concludes: "The Dursley's had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere." We soon find out what type of people the Dursley's are in "their opinions." The morning before Harry joins the family, "Mr. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls. www.pastorjohnwright.org /archives/2005/06/how_sin_becomes.html   (1303 words)

Harry Potter book reviews! They decide to take the child out of the spotlight and allow him to live a normal life with his only remaining relations, a Muggle family named Dursley, until he is of age to attend the Hogwarts school. As Muggles go, the Dursley's may not be prime examples of the worst of their kind, but they rank pretty high. Dursley has not read Dumbledore's letter to Harry, leaving the boy unaware of such things as his heritage, the truth about his parents death and his emerging powers. www.wizardsharry.com /potterbr.html   (2207 words)

MuggleNet | Editorials | Blood Traitor, Abomination, Shame of My Flesh! - An editorial by darkBlue As I believe that families in the HP world are centrally bound by (a) the worth they attribute to magical blood, and (b) their position regarding Voldemort, the parameters used here for labeling an individual a blood traitor require conflicting values on either of these two issues with their family. Pure-blood mania for families as old as the Blacks is not merely rooted in wizarding pride, as it is for others, but even more so in family pride, and Sirius hated everything that reminded him of his family, even the silver plates embossed with the Black family crest. Therefore, although Harry only became a blood traitor to the Dursley family when he found out he was a wizard, he had, perhaps more importantly, long since rebelled against them by learning to embrace differences and by developing an inherent sense of responsibility for the welfare of others. www.mugglenet.com /editorials/editorials/edit-darkBlue07.shtml   (7013 words)

HPfGU - Fantastic Posts: The Dursley Family The Dursleys appear at the beginning of each story to provide a convenient way of starting point that is usually full of comic incidents. When Harry arrived in the Dursley household, a very easy reaction for Petunia and Vernon would have been to pass him onto the care of an orphanage, but they did not do this. The Dursleys seem to be Harry's only remaining family (Dumbledore says that they are his only relatives). www.hpfgu.org.uk /faq/dursleys.html   (1306 words)

harry_tad - Harry J. Potter - Pictures The Dursleys, who would rather have left him on the street than take him in, grudgingly accepted him into their lives, but in turn made his hell. As he grew up, it was obvious to Harry that the two Dursley adults favoured their own son over him. Dudley Dursley was a complete beast to him, always pushing him around and never treating him with any dignity or respect. www.greatestjournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=harry_tad   (3271 words)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Children's Book Reviews Like a fairy tale, the hero's parents have died, he is raised by family that despise him, he encounters good and bad witches and warlocks, he undergoes an extreme trial, and in the end, he triumphs over the villain. Petunia was jealous of the attention Harry's mother received in their family when she was selected to become a witch and this jealousy has filled her with a hatred that she unleashes on Harry. The Dursleys take Harry in to their home and provide him with the necessities of life, but show him no kindness and give him no extras or frills. www.discoveryjourney.com /ContentSummary.asp?ContentID=318&List=1   (1929 words)

Dudley Dursley - Harry Potter Wiki - a Wikia wiki Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter's cousin, and Vernon and Petunia Dursley's son. Then, the summer of 1994, he is described as having "reached the size and weight of a young killer whale", and has disgusted the staff and students of Smeltings so much that the school nurse forces a diet regime upon Dudley, saying that he was now too fat for the school uniforms. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dudley is the only member of the Dursley family to accept Harry: he shakes his hand and thanks him for saving him from the dementors. harrypotter.wikia.com /wiki/Dudley_Dursley   (603 words)

Choir The musical traditional of Dursley Parish church has been established over many decades and that tradition has been sustained and enhanced by Nigel Davies MA, BMus, FRCO the present director of music. Extra curricula activities are regularly arranged for the choir and congregation such as visits to the theatre / pantomime / ballet and skittle evenings (often against the bell ringers) not to mention adhoc but frequent visits to local hostelries for the adults. Consequently, as you can tell, it is not isolated from the rest of the church but is part of the one overall family and numbers both current and former church wardens as well as members of the local ministry team amongst its ranks. www.dursleyparishchurch.org.uk /Choir.htm   (658 words)

Summaries and Comments The Dursley continue to flee and Mr Dursley buys something and won't say what it is. Then they drive to the sea and borrow a small boat from an old man. They decide to spend the night in a small hut on an isle because a storm is in the weather forecast. Later in the hut, there is a knock at the door and the Dursleys and Harry are very afraid, because they can´t believe that someone could get to them in the hut on the rock. Only one more month Harry has to pass with the Dursleys, then it is time for him to leave the world of the Muggles by train. www.tg-offenburg.de /potter/DiscussionTopics/SummariesandComments/Summaries_and_Comments.htm   (2937 words)

FanFiction.Net - Child of Mercy, a Harry Potter fanfic Petunia Evans (soon to be Dursley) on the other hand peered out of various windows in the empty house looking for the best vantage point to spy on her neighbors. The majority of students came from wealthy families and were chaffered to the school itself. The Dursleys had left to visit Marge (about their only sanctuary from Harry since he would never willingly stand the woman) and Harry had decided a trip in the library might pass the time. www.fanfiction.net /s/2596747/1   (7260 words)

Sun Jiangjiang Rowling describes Uncle Vernon’s family like this: Uncle Vernon is “so fat that his neck is almost invisible”, and “has whisker on all his face”. Recently, the Dursley family has spent most of their time to lock up Harry’s incantation books, magic wand, pot, and racing broom, and doesn’t allow him to speak to neighbors.” Besides, the Dursley family is very gainful. Uncle Vernon’s family enjoys the happiness in the Muggle world to their heart’s content (at least they think so), and they don’t have to change everything. www.ibby.org /index.php?id=646&L=1   (2158 words)

Dursley Family Crest In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany... In the Dursley coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement. No families, not even the royal houses, can make sound claim to the right to bear arms unless a proven connection is established through attested Genealogical records... www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/dursley-family-crest.htm   (563 words)

Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on black family   (Site not responding. Last check: ) A fl family sued to move into Carmichael in 1965 when the realtor who was planning to sell them their house pulled the offer at the last minute.... Attitudes do tend to run in families as children are brought up to support their parents' views, but even families that consider Muggle marriage disgraceful and immoral have their fl sheep. The Weasleys are a pure-blood family, but are considered by some others to be blood traitors as they do not demonstrate "proper respect" and pride in their purity. www.blinkbits.com /blinks/black_family   (3021 words)

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