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The deleted scene with the Aunt just made me despise her more! (Spoiler)

posted 8 years ago by kartoon-1
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In the Blu-Ray edition we see the deleted scene where the Dursleys are being run out of their own home due to the hostile wizards coming.

Harry pleads that its for their own good but when Petunia says to him; "You didn't just lose a mother, I lost a sister."
My blood boiled at this pathetic grab for sympathy.

After treating Harry absolutely like crap for 17 years and openly showing utter jealousy at Lily for being gifted in a way that Petunia wasn't the 'Woe is me, pity me for my loss' bit left me utterly cold at the sheer hypocrisy of it.

The only one I felt for was Dudley. His encounter with the Dementor was his epiphany and hopefully his sincere good-bye to Harry means he won't turn out to be like his fat sack of $H!t of a father.

[–] TwoThousandOneMark 8 years ago

It didn't make me dislike her more nor less, yet that scene did humanize her (& the Dursleys) a bit more.
Re-watching the series several time, she never really was a bad person, simply a passive aggressive one. Besides, she always seemed quite introverted- forcibly housing her late sister's baby wizard probably wasn't her plan for life.
I don't forgive them putting him under the stairs, however Harry's upbringing never seemed to touch on abuse- kid's books or not.

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[–] kartoon-1 8 years ago

The Dursleys may not have been evil like Voldemort but they represented the true-to-life type people we all know.

The jealous, bigoted types who try to put down the talented and gifted because they can't stand to see someone else do better than them.

[–] otter 7 years ago

Yeah, we all know people like the Dursleys; people who are mean and selfish, but don't have the courage or vision to be seriously evil.

So they live respectable, law-abiding lives, and think of themselves as good people, and make others suffer in a small, petty, personal way. And it's not just jealousy of the talented and gifted, such persons are generally extremely unkind to their "inferiors", or anyone who doesn't fit their narrow idea of proper behavior. And Harry managed to fit into all three categories - he's talented in a way they are not, they consider him to be of inferior status, and he definitely doesn't fit into their idea of proper behavior!

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[–] monstermayhem32 7 years ago

I think the deleted scene was to show depsite petunia jealously and hatred for lily for being a witch, there was a part of her that cared for her sister.

[–] kartoon-1 7 years ago

But all in a 'Too little, too late.' way to impress me!

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 5 years ago

i agree

[–] 7 years ago

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[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 6 years ago

Finding her sudden show of empathy maddening is justified.

However, for what it’s worth, getting to see a more caring, basically human side of her was something that I greatly appreciated it. Yes, it was a late apology for the way she treated Harry all these years, but even so if we’re led to believe that she cared about Harry and his mother all this time.... then cool.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

I thought that the scene didn't so much show that she cared about either Harry or his mother, just that she was aware of how awful she'd been to Harry. Which is better than nothing.

IMHO her feeling towards her sister were a mixture of love, jealousy, fear, resentment, and pride, but her feelings toward Harry we're almost all resentment. She was stuck with him, she was stuck with the goddamn wizards who were keeping an eye on him, she was stuck with watching yet another relative grow up learning to use magic when she couldn't. Hell, I'd resent being stuck with a Harry, too! At least she basically admitted she'd trated him unfairly as a result.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I wish in that scene they would’ve included the part in the book where Dudley goes up to Harry and says something along the lines of << I am sorry. You saved my life and I am grateful>>. I forget the exact words but it was a moment of hope where Dudley shows that he might have a chance of turning out to be a better person than his hopelessly awful parents.

[–] MIchiganJFrogg (-35) 6 years ago

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