The way the Dursley's are portrayed isn't always amusing, the the physical characterists stuff is rather... annoying. However, I get the feeling that she's trying to ease into the more serious aspects of Harry's childhood, because if immediately presented seriously, it might scare young children... His childhood, and the Dursleys, seem at first rather unpleasant, but also more unrealistic. In the fifth and sixth books, things start to become a little more realistic, on two different levels. The humanisation of the Dursleys, in book 5, with Dudley obviously having real fears, and Petunia with the 'remember my last' bit. In the 6th however, there's a part where she mentions that Harry knew better than to stay in range of his Uncles fist... with makes things sound a bit more serious than we were originally lead to believe.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:40 am (UTC)and Petunia with the 'remember my last' bit. In the 6th however, there's a part where she mentions that Harry knew better than to stay in range of his Uncles fist... with makes things sound a bit more serious than we were originally lead to believe.