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[[folder:Vernon Dursley]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Creator/RichardGriffiths

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Harry's uncle. Vernon is a blustering, social-climbing, materialistic {{Jerkass}} with an incredibly insular world view. Basically, the guy's got no redeeming qualities. Both he and Aunt Petunia are very Roald Dahl-esque villains.

JKRowling once cited him as her least favorite character in the entire series and yes, this was after [[TheScrappy Dolores Umbridge]] had been introduced. As for the fandom, let's just say you won't find many fanfics in which he [[DracoInLeatherPants wears leather pants]].
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* AbusiveParents: Oh, so much.
* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair changes from being dark in the books to a greyish ginger in the movies.
* {{Angrish}}
* AxCrazy
* BerserkButton: Say anything related to magic in front of him. [[SchmuckBait Go on, try it.]]
* BritishNewspapers: He reads the ''Daily Mail'', naturally.
* BritishStuffiness: Somewhat. He's stuffy all right, but he's much more boorish than the stereotype would suggest.
* BullyingADragon: There's his mistreatment of Harry, of course (which stems from ''before'' he knew Harry wasn't allowed to magically retaliate), but there's also the matter of Hagrid arriving to collect Harry. Even though Vernon has ''witnessed'' Hagrid demonstrate his SuperStrength by bending a shotgun, and even after seeing Hagrid get mad, he proceeds to make the half-giant angrier until he ends up [[BerserkButton doing the one thing that makes Hagrid truly apoplectic with rage]] (i.e. insulting Albus Dumbledore), instead of keeping his mouth shut. Did I mention Hagrid is at least ''twice'' his size? ''Linearly''?
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: "Go--cupboard--stay--no meals."
** In the film, he just simply demands Harry what happened and punishes him for saying the word magic and believing that he is responsible for Dudley falling into the snake cage.
* DotingParent: the bad SpoiledBrat producing type.
* EvilUncle
* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy-Forbidding Uncle]]
* FatBastard
* HappilyMarried: For all his other flaws, he and Petunia really love each other.
* HarmlessVillain: After Harry goes to Hogwarts, Vernon spends the rest of the series being more of an annoyance than anything.
* HeyYou: Vernon tends to refer to Harry as "boy".
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: In ''Philosopher's Stone''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Simply an unpleasant human being as a whole.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* MuggleFosterParents
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: He is outraged and reacts as he's being insulted when he's addressed as a "Muggle."
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He hates wizards and views them as abnormal freaks. Contrast that to most of the villains in the series, who view Muggles like him as subhuman.
* VillainOpeningScene: It's debatable whether Vernon really counts a "villain", but he's a jerk at least and the first book starts off from his POV.
* WhiteCollarWorker
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[[folder:Petunia Dursley, née Evans]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Fiona Shaw

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Harry's aunt. As a kid, she was involved in TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry with Lily, Harry's mother. After Lily turned out to be a witch, Petunia got jealous and came to hate magic.

As an adult, Petunia is a StepfordSmiler who favors her own son Dudley over Harry. She is not as overtly nasty to Harry as her husband is, but she's still mean to him in a catty sort of way. She also tends to be humorously overemotional.
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* AbusiveParents
* AdaptationDyeJob: Petunia is blonde in the books, but dark-haired in the film.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Lily's Abel.
* ChekhovsGun: In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she remembers hearing about dementors because she overheard her sister being told about it from "that awful boy", with the implication being that said boy was James. In ''Deathly Hallows'', that's revisited, as Harry peers into Snape's memory and watches Lily and Petunia hear about the dementors...from Snape, not James as previously believed.
* DotingParent: Like her husband the kind that makes {{Spoiled Brat}}s and it doesn't help she seems to still see her Dinky-Duddydums as a toddler.
* FloralThemeNaming: Lily and Petunia, anyone?
* FreudianExcuse
* FryingPanOfDoom: Tries to hit Harry with a frying pan in the second book, but misses.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With her sister, Lily.
* GossipyHens: She is one, but we never see her interact with any others. The only female friend of hers we know about is someone named "Yvonne", who is only mentioned once in the first book.
* HappilyMarried
* HeelFaceTurn
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: As a child.
** A good case can be made that she still wants to be special even as an adult and that she is just overcompensating her "normal life" because she is fully aware of it, which also leads to her treatment of Harry, [[spoiler: which she is later implied to regret like Dudley.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: When Harry and the Dursleys part for the last time, there's a moment when Petunia looks like she wants to say something kind to Harry, but ultimately she can't do it and just continues on out the door. In a DeletedScene from [[Film/HarryPotter the movie version]], she manages to say it.
* MeaningfulName: In the language of flowers, petunias symbolize anger and resentment.
* MisplacedKindergartenTeacher: Petunia seems to have the idea that her teenage son is just an oversized toddler and treats him accordingly. Dudley doesn't seem to mind, as it makes her easy to manipulate. He just has to act upset in front of her and she'll give her "Diddykins" whatever he wants.
* MoralityChain: While by no means a decent person herself, she sometimes reins in Vernon's worst impulses.
* MuggleFosterParents
* NosyNeighbor
* ParentalObliviousness: Petunia has a huge blind spot when it comes to Dudley's many flaws.
* StepfordSmiler
* TheUnFavorite: We don't actually ''know'' since we never get to see Lily's and her parents, but it is implied the reason she is so bitter and resentful towards magic and the Potters is that she felt left behind when her pretty, popular sister got a letter from Hogwarts and she didn't.
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[[folder:Dudley Dursley]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Harry Melling

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Vernon and Petunia's beloved son and Harry's cousin. Initially, he's an overweight SpoiledBrat and the dim-witted leader of a GangOfBullies who torment Harry. Of course, Vernon and Petunia turn a blind eye to the bullying and act as though Dudley were the perfect son. By the fifth book, Dudley has become an outright juvenile delinquent, but his parents remain oblivious.

After Harry saves him from a couple of Dementors, Dudley starts to change and ultimately he is the only member of the Dursley family to make a complete HeelFaceTurn, a development cut from the movies. WordOfGod says he and Harry are on friendly terms as adults.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Like his mother, he was blonde in the books but dark-haired in the film.
* AlliterativeName
* AnimalMotifs: Pigs. According to Hagrid, he looks and acts so much like one, a pig tail isn't much of a change.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Cousin Bully]]: Towards Harry.
* BigEater
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Dudley is blond in the books, though he had an AdaptationDyeJob in the movies.
* ButtMonkey: Hagrid tried to turn him into a pig, but ended up just giving him a pig's tail. He ate some of the Weasley twins' joke candy and got an OverlyLongTongue. And then there are those dementors. Basically, whenever something magical shows up in the muggle world, Dudley is about to get hurt.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Harry's Abel of the adopted brother variety.
* TheDitz: Can't figure out 37 + 2 at the age of eleven. [[hottip:*:Weirdly enough, he ''does'' know what 37 - 35 is, as he's instantly able to deduce that he has two presents less than last year. Clearly he's better at subtracting than adding.]] Supposedly doesn't know who the Prime Minister is at age fifteen. Note his parents are actually ''proud'' of the latter; "as if a normal boy cares what's on the news." (In the books, he doubles as a male example of the DumbBlonde.)
* FatBastard: Bloats to the size of a young killer whale by Book 4 and never quite slims down. (He's "as vast as ever" in the next book.)
* FatIdiot
* HeelFaceTurn
* HeelRealization: Word of God says that what the Dementors made Dudley see was how he looked in other people's eyes -- a stupid spoiled slob.
* KidsAreCruel
* LargeAndInCharge: "Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader."
* ParentalFavoritism: He's the one who gets favored
* SpoiledBrat: Dumbledore makes the interesting case that what the Dursleys have done to Dudley is actually worse than what they did to Harry.
* TookALevelInKindness: The only person in the series who a dementor attack does some good for. WordOfGod says that he and Harry stay in touch after the series.
* TooDumbToLive: Especially in the film version of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" when he ate Harry's cake that Hagrid gave him. Hagrid then punishes him by making a pig tail grow on him.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WordOfGod states that Dudley was almost written into the Nineteen Years Later King's Cross scene with a magical child, but the author decided that no magic would survive contact with Vernon Dursley's DNA.
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[[folder:Marjorie "Marge" Dursley]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Pam Ferris

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Vernon's sister, who visits the rest of the family occasionally. Marge lives out in the country, where she is a professional bulldog breeder. She does not know about the magical world, but nevertheless follows the Dursley "party line" of considering Harry and his parents to be freaks. She is not shy about expressing this viewpoint, although she has apparently never met Harry's parents first hand.

Marge only appears in ''PrisonerOfAzkaban'', although she is mentioned a few times in the first book and once in the fifth book. It is during her visit in ''Azkaban'' that Harry gets so angry at her for insulting his parents that he causes her to blow up like a balloon.
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* TheAlcoholic: Marge runs on brandy. [[HypocriticalHumor Ironically, she accuses Harry's parents of being drunks.]]
* BigShutUp: Harry targets an epic one at her in the film.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the film, she can be seen floating away in the distance as Harry stalks down the road.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: "Eileen", her revealed middle name in Pottermore, isn't ''that'' bad of a name, but she'd hardly be happy to find out she shared it with a witch (Snape's mom, Eileen Prince).
* AGlassInTheHand
* ImStandingRightHere: Marge talks disparagingly about Harry and his parents as though he weren't there even though he's sitting at the same table. The other Dursleys sometimes do this too, but Marge is particularly bad about it.
* InsistentTerminology: Harry is forced to call her "Aunt Marge" even though she isn't a blood relative of his.
* InTheBlood: A firm believer in this line of thinking.
* {{Jerkass}}: Like the rest of her family.
* MagicPants: Although they get stretched out, her clothes do a really good job of staying together when she's blown up. [[FanDisservice Thank God.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: She leaves most of her dogs in the care of a neighbor while she's away, but she always brings along Ripper, who is her favorite.
* RelativeButton: Pushing this, or rather pounding on it as hard as she could, was [[TitleDrop Aunt Marge's big mistake]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Basically, she's female!Vernon. In the book's description, she even has a moustache, "though not as bushy as his."
* TooDumbToLive: There's a good reason why she was seen floating away after she mocked Harry's family.
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[[folder:Tom Riddle, Sr.]]
Voldemort's father and first murder victim. He was a wealthy nobleman and neighbor to the Gaunts, who he treated with derision for their poverty and disabilities. However, this didn't stop Merope Gaunt from becoming a StalkerWithACrush on him. When Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt were imprisoned in Azkaban for crimes against Muggles, Merope took that opportunity to brew a LovePotion [[SlippingAMickey and drug him with it]], using the infatuation it induced in him for her to trick him into marrying and conceiving a child with her.

Once she was pregnant with his child, she stopped giving him the LovePotion and came clean about her being a witch, hoping that he had fallen in love with her for real and that he would at least stay for the child's sake if he hadn't. However, Tom responded by abandoning his wife and their unborn child, returning to Little Hangleton, "talking of being 'hoodwinked' and 'taken in'... He left her, never saw her again, and never troubled to discover what became of his son," which later comes back to directly bite him in the ass. Merope went to an orphanage to [[DeathByChildbirth die after giving birth to their child]], who she named Tom after him before she died. Tom Riddle, Jr. was then raised in said orphanage, without the benefit of any form of parental love. Once Tom Riddle, Jr. finds out the details of his origins, he goes to the Riddle House in Little Hangleton and proceeds to kill his father and paternal grandparents.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: He is of British Muggle nobility and, even though he isn't a villain, per se, he is not necessarily a sympathetic character, either, and his actions play a major role in his son's rise to villainy.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. He is notably good-looking to the point where his wife expresses a wish for their son to look just like him, even after he abandoned them, yet he is not really a "good" character. Yes, he was drugged and coerced into marrying Merope and conceiving a child with her, but then again, he ''did'' knowingly abandon her and his own child.
* ChildByRape: Inverted. He was bewitched into infatuation for Merope Gaunt, which led to their conception of Voldemort under circumstances that were definitely not consensual on his part.
* KarmicDeath: Tom Riddle Jr., his son who he abandoned before he was born, hunts him down and avenges said abandonment.
* ParentalAbandonment: He knowingly abandons his wife along with their unborn child. Granted, he was effectivly raped, but even so...
* {{Patricide}}: He is murdered by his ChildByRape, Tom Riddle, Jr., [[KarmicDeath in retribution]] [[ParentalAbandonment for abandoning him]].
* RapeAsDrama: He was raped by Merope Gaunt as part of Tom Riddle, Jr.'s conception as part of the symbolism of the monster who is not only unable to love, but was also conceived under loveless circumstances.
* SlippingAMickey: He was the victim of this by way of a LovePotion by [[{{Yandere}} Merope Gaunt]].
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[[folder:Hermione's parents]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Tom Knight[=/=]Ian Kelly and Heather Bleasdale[=/=]Michelle Fairley

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Hermione's parents are a pair of Muggle dentists. Throughout the series, they are almost entirely OutOfFocus as Rowling believes they would be boring characters. Unlike the Dursleys, they are apparently accepting of Hermione being a witch.

Mr. and Mrs. Granger are best known for the instance in ''DeathlyHallows'' when Hermione gives them FakeMemories so that they will forget she exists and move to Australia, where they will be safe from Voldemort's reign of terror. This is only mentioned in dialogue in the book, but is actually portrayed onscreen in the movie version. WordOfGod states that Hermione returned her parents to normal after Voldemort was defeated.
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* FakeMemories
* GoodParents: Well, apparently.
* HappilyMarried: Presumably. We're really grasping at straws to fill this section.
* InvisibleParents
* OCStandIn: As you can imagine, considering their status as blank slates.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the seventh film, they are played by different actors than the ones who played them during their equally brief appearance in the second film. (One of them [[HeyItsThatGuy being]] [[ASongOfIceAndFire Catelyn Stark]]!)
* UnnamedParent: The only time their names are mentioned is when Hermione has altered their memories and says they are now Wendell and Monica Wilkins. Presumably, Wendell and Monica are not their real first names.
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[[folder:Frank Bryce]]
-->'''Portrayed by''': Eric Sykes
The old gardener of the Riddle mansion, where Lord Voldemort's Muggle father and paternal grandparents lived. He becomes a prime suspect in their murder by Voldemort, but is cleared of all charges due to the police being unable to determine their cause of death. He is murdered by Voldemort himself years later. He is mostly notable for being one of the few point-of-view characters in the series other than Harry, though his point-of-view is limited to just one chapter.
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* BackupBluff: He tries this on Voldemort and Wormtail, claiming that his wife is downstairs calling the police. It doesn't work.
* {{Badass Grandpa}}/{{Badass Normal}}: Possibly the most badass Muggle in the series. He mouths off to ''Voldemort!''
** When he appears later via temporary pseudo-resurrection he is surprisingly accepting of the fact he is dead and that wizards exist, and gives Harry support despite never meeting him before.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion
* CrustyCaretaker
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "Is that right? Lord, is it? Well, I don't think much of your manners, ''My Lord''. Turn round and face me like a man, why don't you?!"
* {{Fallguy}}
* IntroOnlyPointOfView
* OffOnATechnicality: He is cleared of the Riddles' murder because the police can't determine their cause of death (Avada Kedavra leaving no traces on the victim's body).
* SacrificialLamb
* ShellShockedVeteran: Implied to have been this.
* RetiredBadass: He fought in WWII, and then was still able to mouth off to Voldemort.
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[[folder: The Prime Minister]]
The Prime Minister of the Muggle Community of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is more or less the Muggle counterpart to the Minister for Magic, and is one of the few Muggles in the series who knows about the wizarding world without being related to a wizard, because the Minister for Magic is required by law to discuss any situation that might affect Muggle society with him. This does, however, mostly seem to translate to the Minister for Magic showing up and giving some minute details without bothering to explain further, and then telling the Prime minister not to worry his pretty little head about it.

Notable, again, for being one of the few people in the series other than Harry to serve as viewpoint character -- though like Frank Bryce, he's only viewpoint character for one chapter and then more or less vanishes from the story.
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* CassandraTruth: Avoids the trope because he ''knows'' that this is exactly what happens if he tried to tell anyone about his meetings with the Minister for Magic.
* CondescendingCompassion: On the receiving end of this from Cornelius Fudge, though definitely heavier on the "condescending" than the "compassion."
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Any references to his name is carefully avoided (though since the books take place from 1991-97, he's likely to be Sir JohnMajor, or a CaptainErsatz of him).[[note]]Fudge does mention at their first meeting, however, that this Prime Minister was preceded as such by another man, whereas the historical Major followed on the heels of MargaretThatcher.[[/note]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He seems like he ''would'' be one if given a chance -- unfortunately, both Fudge and Scrimgeour make it very plain that even if he's supposed to be an authority figure and their equal in theory, they consider him to be beneath them and not worth listening to at all.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Though he ''really'' dislikes the dismissive and patronizing Cornelius Fudge, and has good reason to do so, he nevertheless finds himself feeling sorry for the man after Fudge reveals that he lost his job as Minister for Magic.
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