Vernon Dursley

Families

Married

• Spouse: Petunia Evans
• Children:
  • Dudley Dursley
  • Harry James Potter

Parents

• Family: Married
  • Father: Unknown Dursley
  • Mother: Unknown

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Analysis

• Married Petunia Evans
• Director of Grunnings.¹ As best I can tell, this is a board of directors type position, except that there is probably only one of them in this case, indicating that it is a smaller company. The title has a few legal implications, as seen here.

Speculation

Socioeconmic Class

There is some discrepancy in the source material here. The first introduction of the Dursleys states that they “have everything they wanted,”² but they live in a reasonably sized house in a fairly standard suburban neighborhood. Indeed, in writing about Privet Drive, Mrs. Rowling would later state that she envisons the Dursleys as “smugly middle class,”³ and admits that the house she describes is mentally modeled off “a rather small three bedroomed house … near Bristol.”⁴ This is hardly the picture of the company director who has everything he wants.

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1. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone © 2004 Pottermore Limited. American Kindle Edition. page 1.↩︎

2. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone © 2004 Pottermore Limited. American Kindle Edition. page 1.↩︎

3. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. “Number Four, Privet Drive” The J. K. Rowling Index. 2011-08-15.↩︎

4. Mrs. J. K. Rowling. “Number Four, Privet Drive” The J. K. Rowling Index. 2011-08-15.↩︎