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- Biography
- Physical Description
- Personality and Traits
- Etymology
- Behind The Scenes
- Appearances
Early life
Little is known about Vernon's childhood life. He was born into the Muggle Dursley family and attended Smeltings Academy as a secondary school. Vernon had an older sister named Marjorie(Marge to family members and friends) who made a living breeding bulldogs. Vernon started working for Grunnings in 1975 or earlier, and eventually received an award trophyfrom the firm for having worked there for twenty-seven years. Vernon met Petunia Evans at an office job in London where he was a junior execu...
Marriage and family life
Vernon, along with his wife, always liked to be normal and never tolerated anything that they considered out of the ordinary. He knew that Petunia's sister was a witch, but kept it quiet. They had a baby boy on 23 June, 1980. This boy, Dudley Dursley, was highly spoiled by his parents.
Later life
After the war, Vernon had some grandchildren by Dudley. It is unknown if he remained in contact with his nephew, if even only on Christmas-card terms, like Dudley did: nevertheless, he had two great-nephews and a great-niece by Harry. It is also unknown whether Vernon returned to his home at 4 Privet Drive, or if he stayed where he was put in hiding during the height of the Second Wizarding War. In 2015, Vernon signed an online petition to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson as host of the television p...
Vernon was described as a big, beefy man with a large purple face. He had thick, dark hair, a bushy black moustache (half of which he tore out through frustration on two occasions), with hardly any neck and mean little eyes that narrowed to slits when he was angry. Dudleymuch resembled him apart from his blond hair. Vernon was renowned for his phys...
Vernon was an arrogant, surly, combustible, blustering, abrasive, petty-minded bully who was completely intolerant of people who were different than himself. Like Petunia, he detested magic and anything unusual or out of the ordinary, which he labelled as "funny business" in 1981.Naturally, he despised his nephew Harry, who as a wizard was very muc...
Vernon is from a French last name for "alder tree". Dursley is a town in Gloucestershire, England. J. K. Rowling has commented that she visited the place as a child and hated it, which likely affected her choice of surname for the awful family, remarking "I don't imagine I'm very popular in Dursley".The town is known for its Victorian history in co...
Vernon Dursley was the first character introduced in the Harry Potter series.Vernon is portrayed by the late Richard Griffiths in the film series.Vernon is one of only five characters in the Harry Potter book series whose thoughts have been disclosed by the narrator, the others being Harry Potter, Frank Bryce, the British Prime Minister, and...Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(film)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears in photographs)Richard Thomas Griffiths OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) [1] [2] was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–2010), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997).
In the book, Rowling introduces an eclectic cast of characters. The first character to be introduced is Vernon Dursley, Harry's uncle. Most of the actions centre on the eponymous hero, Harry Potter, an orphan who escapes his miserable childhood with the Dursley family.
Vernon Dursley. Harry Potter's uncle and director of Grunnings drill manufacturing company, Vernon Dursley despised all things magical. He was the proud father of Dudley, a spoilt bully of a boy, and married to Petunia who hated the wizarding world even more than her husband.
Vernon Dursley has appeared in the following books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (H...
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Vernon Dursley is a character throughout the Harry Potter book series. Vernon is the Muggle uncle of Harry Potter and is Harry's guardian when he was growing up. Vernon is the husband of Petunia Dursley and they have one child, Dudley Dursley.
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