dursleys

emily leonard · 05-12-2005, 05:26 PM

do you think that the dursleys are intresing people? jkr has already given info on them to be more then they seem what do you think?

inked · 05-12-2005, 05:58 PM

The Dursleys are interesting from the point of their total conformity to their idea of "being like folks" and their marked aversion to magic in any form. Apart from that they are interesting for their cruelty and insensitivity and self-centredness. Then there is the blood relation between Petunia and Harry and therefore between Dudley and Harry.

**Nurvingiel** · 05-12-2005, 07:45 PM

There certainly seems to be more to Petunia than meets the eye (remember my last and all).

They are interesting though. In real life, they'd be terribly boring to have dinner with, but they are fun to read about. I'm looking forward to Dudley especially next book...

durinsbane2244 · 05-13-2005, 08:47 PM

i agree nuvingel, there is definatly gonna be sumtin with petunia, but we shall see, we shall see. . . .

***azalea*** · 05-13-2005, 09:24 PM

I'm glad you started this thread, as I have begun a second reading of the series just this month. I'm still on book one, and I have been trying to read very carefully, knowing what I know due to having read them already. I want to try to analyze each character and facet of the plot as I read, and of course that starts with the Dursleys, since that is where the book begins.

I can't post my observations right now, however, so I'll save that for tomorrow.

05-12-2005, 05:26 PM	#1
emily leonard Enting Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: on the moon but i do vist earth now and again Posts: 57	dursleys do you think that the dursleys are intresing people? jkr has already given info on them to be more then they seem what do you think? __________________ why me?

05-12-2005, 05:58 PM	#2
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	The Dursleys are interesting from the point of their total conformity to their idea of "being like folks" and their marked aversion to magic in any form. Apart from that they are interesting for their cruelty and insensitivity and self-centredness. Then there is the blood relation between Petunia and Harry and therefore between Dudley and Harry. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

05-13-2005, 08:47 PM	#4
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	i agree nuvingel, there is definatly gonna be sumtin with petunia, but we shall see, we shall see. . . . __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

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05-13-2005, 09:24 PM	#5
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I'm glad you started this thread, as I have begun a second reading of the series just this month. I'm still on book one, and I have been trying to read very carefully, knowing what I know due to having read them already. I want to try to analyze each character and facet of the plot as I read, and of course that starts with the Dursleys, since that is where the book begins. I can't post my observations right now, however, so I'll save that for tomorrow.