Growing from the Dursleys: How Harry Potter grew from being in their home
The Dursleys were far from a good home for Harry Potter to grow up in. They abused him, hated him, and wanted him gone. But within their home, Harry learned about what love really was.
When Harry Potter was growing up, the Dursleys were the only sense of family that he had. They were not great role models and they hated him because of what he represented. But what they did teach Harry was that the love his parents had for him was real. They did it by showing him how a family that doesn’t love functions.
They bought Dudley gifts. Tried to placate him and that was that. But James and Lily Potter gave up their lives for their son, they loved him so completely and Harry could see through the Dursleys actions that they were incapable of loving anything in the way that his parents loved him.
So, of course, the Dursleys are terrible. No one has ever fought that because we all know just how bad they are. But with their evil ways, Harry could see what not to do with his own children and how to value those in his life that he loved. They may not have been kind or caring, they were abusive, but it made Harry into the kind of man that the world needed. Their hatred fueled the love that Lily and James left him with and gave the world Harry James Potter, the man who would stop Voldemort.
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