waterbendingchamp:

diva-gonzo:

lytefoot:

whenthemarshmallowmettheslayer:

1.) Made him sleep in a spider infested cupboard under their stairs when Dudley had a toy room and they had a guest room.

2.) Only gave Harry hand me downs when they could afford to buy Dudley a tv to put in the kitchen as a homecoming gift.

3.) Mrs.Figgs didn’t allow Harry to have fun when babysitting him in fear of the Dursleys finding out and never allowing her to babysit Harry again.

4.) Vernon chocked Harry in OotP because he thought Harry had used magic.

5.) Made Harry go on diet so Dudley didn’t feel bad. Harry who is often described as skinny. Harry who ended up asking his friends to give him food.

6.) Petunia tried to hit Harry with a frying pan which thankfully Harry dodged. If a person hits a child or even a dog with a frying pan they are arrested.

7.) Never hugged Harry.

8.) Allowed Harry to cook sometime before Harry was eleven years old. This one isn’t that big but I’m mentioning for the fact bacon grease popping onto your skin really freaking hurts.

8.) What age do you believe they shoved a kid in a cupboard? Yes I’m brining this point up again. They had TWO spare rooms.

9.) An actually quote from the books: “long experience had taught him to remain out of arm’s reach of his uncle whenever possible.”

10.) Were perfectly fine with Dudley bullying Harry. Hell they probably encouraged such behavior.

11.) Vernon thought he could beat the magic out of Harry and thought that was a perfectly fine mentality.

12.) Harry tells Hermione (I’m pretty sure it’s Hermione) at the end of either the first book or the second that the Dursleys would only be disappointed that he didn’t die.

13.) The Dursleys canonical didn’t like Harry before meeting their nephew and knowing if Harry had magic. They didn’t want Dudley sorting with that lot. The whole Harry being a horcrux and that’s why the Dursleys were horrible theory is victim blaming.

14.) Despite Sirius having almost murdered a man infront of Harry & his friends and the fact Harry had thought him a criminal who betrayed his parents to Voldemort a few hours before Harry excitedly agrees to live with Sirius.

15.) Harry doesn’t enjoy the summer because it meant living with the Dursleys.

16.) Okay with dumping Harry at the train station by himself when they thought Harry had been lied to. Harry had no way of getting back home or money for a single meal.

17.) Wanted to leave Harry in the car while they spent a day celebrating Dudley’s birthday at the zoo.

18.) Were completely fine with Aunt Marge’s smack talk of two dead people (dead people who were Harry’s parents and Petunia’s sister ) that made Harry so upset he turned her into a human balloon accidentally.

19.) Harry, purposely not admitting Sirius wasn’t a murderer (and people say Harry doesn’t have Slytherin traits), had to use his on the run godfather as blackmail to get the Dursleys to treat him nice.

20.) Despite having read all the books multiple times I cannot recall a single time Harry called his relatives’ house home.

21.) They only gave Harry Dudley’s spare room for broken toys when they thought they were being spied on by wizards.

22.) Harry was punished for accidental magic when Petunia knew, from Lily being her own sister, wizards and witches can not control accidentally magic.

23.) Allowed everyone to think Harry went to school for criminal boys instead of saying an old school Harry’s parents use to attend.

Feel free to add on.

24.) Forbid Harry, as a young child, from asking questions. (Asking questions is extremely developmentally important for young children.)

25.) In particular, forbid Harry from asking questions about his dead parents.

26.) Blamed Harry for the way they treated him by impugning his mental health. “Just our nephew… very disturbed…”

27.) Avoided addressing Harry unless they were giving him orders. Avoided using his name. (Called him “the boy,” etc.)

28.) Can we look at 27 again, and how that’s going to play into Harry’s sense that he has value only in as much as he had utility? Given that Dumbledore did pretty much the exact same thing?

29.) Locked up Harry’s school supplies so he couldn’t do summer homework.

30. The Dursleys lied to Harry about how his parents died. They lied to him for years. They called James a good for nothing layabout. (Probably a wise idea they didn’t know that James was well-off.)

31) Petunia projected her resentment, jealousy and anger at her sister, Lily because Lily was a wizard and she wasn’t, onto Harry because he served as another reminder of what she couldn’t have. She also gaslighted Harry into thinking he was imagining things or making them up when he was showing signs of magic when she grew up with a magical sister and further kept him from his wizarding heritage. Knowing he was a wizard and showing obvious signs of magic, she not only added to the abuse but allowed her husband to continue abusing Harry because of her unresolved feelings towards her sister. These same feelings she revealed again when she finally admitted how her sister died (“got herself blown up”).