Please use the links to the left to help you find your way around this site, which is constantly growing. NEW TO THE ONLINE EDITION OF MYSTERYFILE. The following are supporting characters in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. For members of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledores Army, Hogwarts. This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original. List of supporting Harry Potter characters. The following are supporting characters in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. For members of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledores Army, Hogwarts staff, Ministry of Magic, or for Death Eaters, see the respective articles. The DursleyseditThe Dursley family are Harry Potters last living relatives. To ensure Harrys safety, Albus Dumbledore placed him in the Dursleys care when he was a baby. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. The Purdue University Online Writing Lab serves writers from around the world and the Purdue University Writing Lab helps writers on Purdues campus. Automatically formats, alphabetize, and prints bibliographies for free. Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugarcoatedin fact, its sugarfree, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. The Dursleys live at Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging in Surrey, England. They are all Muggles, and despise all things related to magic and anything out of the ordinary in general and the Wizarding World, especially the Potters. Vernon DursleyeditVernon Dursley is Harrys uncle, Petunias husband and therefore Lily Potters brother in law, Dudleys father and Marges brother. Vernon is described as a big, beefy man, the literal human embodiment of a walrus, with hardly any neck, and a large moustache. He is very much the head of his family, laying down most of the rules for Harry and doing most of the threatening, as well as spoiling Dudley. He is also the director of a drill making firm, Grunnings, and seems to be quite successful in his career. He regularly reads the Daily Mail. Uncle Vernon and his wife have grudgingly raised Harry from an early age. He and Petunia were often hostile to Harry and never informed him about the magical world, including how his parents died they explained it away as a car crash. Unlike Petunia, who proves to have a slight feeling of familial loyalty to Harry, Vernon seems to hate his nephew so much that in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he is willing to throw him out of the house, knowing that doing so would put him in grave danger. In fact, while discussing the Dementor attack with Harry, Vernon actually hopes aloud that Harry will receive the death penalty. Vernon also has an aversion to imagination, to any references to magic, and anything even slightly out of the ordinary in the first book, when Harry mentions dreaming about a flying motorbike, Vernon responds by angrily bellowing that motorbikes do not fly, despite Harrys protests that it was only a dream. When the Dursleys decide to leave Privet Drive to go into hiding, Vernon nearly shakes Harrys hand good bye, though he ultimately cannot bring himself to do it. In the film version, he leaves without even a word to Harry although a deleted scene showing Dudley and Harrys reconciliation shows him saying this is farewell. Vernon is portrayed by Richard Griffiths in the film series. Petunia DursleyeditPetunia Dursley is Harrys maternal aunt, Lily Potters older sister, Vernons wife, Dudleys mother, and Marges sister in law. She is described as a bony woman with blonde hair that she passed down to her son, a rather horsey face and a very long neck, and spends most of her time spying on her neighbours. Her eyes are large and pale, quite unlike Lilys. Her entire family, except Lily, is made up of Muggles. According to Petunia, her parents were proud of having a witch in the family, but Petunia saw her sister as a freak. Education/latest-news/assets/C&M.jpg' alt='Doing Second Language Research James Dean Brown Pdf Creator' title='Doing Second Language Research James Dean Brown Pdf Creator' />In fact, Petunia was envious and resentful of Lilys magical abilities1 and went so far as to write to Dumbledore, pleading to be allowed to enter Hogwarts. Dumbledore gently denied her enrollment. Afterwards, Petunia grew bitter towards the school and, by extension, towards the wizarding world in general. She had no contact with Lily after her marriage to James Potter and the birth of her nephew, Harry, though she did send the family a horrible vase that baby Harry broke while riding on a toy broom. The gift echoes Harrys Dursley sent Christmas presents, which are never pretty or welcome. Petunia has more knowledge of the wizarding world than she is initially willing to admit. After the Dementors attack Harry and Dudley, Petunia states that she knows Dementors guard the wizard prison, Azkaban. When Harry and the rest of her family look at her strangely, she explains that she heard that awful boy telling Lily about them years ago. Harry assumes that the awful boy was his father, James, but in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he learns via flashback memories that it was actually Severus Snape, who knew both Lily and Petunia when they were children. On one occasion, Petunia, but mostly her husband, almost throws Harry out of their house, but when she receives a Howler from Albus Dumbledore, she decides not to send the boy away due to the agreement she had made with Dumbledore although she covers by claiming that her decision is based on what the neighbors might think if the Dursleys threw Harry out. Before the Dursleys leave Privet Drive to go into hiding, Petunia almost wishes Harry good luck, suggesting that she does feel a tiny sense of familial attachment to her nephew however her self imposed dislike of magic prevents her from doing so, and she leaves without a word. In the film version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, she leaves Harry without showing any sentiment however, in a deleted scene on the Blu rayDVD release, Petunia shows acknowledgment of the wizarding world, and ultimately deep sadness and remorse for the loss of her younger sister Lily, reminding Harry that she lost a sister as well. Petunia Dursley dies sometime between The Battle of Hogwarts and 1. Actress Fiona Shaw portrays Petunia in the films, with Ariella Paradise playing her as a child. Dudley DursleyeditDudley Dursley is the only child of Vernon and Petunia, Marges only nephew and Harrys only cousin. Described as a very large, blond boy though dark haired in the films, Dudley is generally given his way in almost everything, and shows the symptoms of a spoiled brat. Dudley is a cold hearted bully and the leader of a gang of thugs with whom he regularly beats up Harry and younger children on the flimsiest of excuses. He is only one month older than Harry, meaning that his birthday must be sometime in late June. The same year Harry starts at Hogwarts, Dudley is enrolled at his fathers old private boarding school, Smeltings. In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Dudley is given a pigs tail by Rubeus Hagrid which has to be removed at a private hospital in London. In Goblet of Fire, the Smeltings school nurse advises the Dursleys to put him on a strict diet. During the summer when this diet is enforced, the Weasleys arrive at Number 4, Privet Drive to pick Harry up for the Quidditch World Cup, and Fred Weasley accidentally drops a Ton Tongue Toffee, which enlarges Dudleys tongue to four feet long before his hysterical mother reluctantly allows Arthur Weasley to shrink it. In the fifth book, two Dementors attack Dudley and Harry in an alley. Dudley collapses, and Harry uses the Patronus Charm to drive a group of Dementors away from himself and his cousin. Mrs. Figg then comes running in and reveals she is a Squib by talking about Dementors. Harry and Mrs. Figg carry the shaken Dudley home, though Dudley is convinced that Harry made the dementors appear in the first place. After the confrontation, Harry wonders what sort of bad memories Dudley could have relived, as Dementors force people to relive their worst experiences. Rowling later revealed, in an on line chat, that Dudleys worst fear was seeing himself for who he really was a cruel, selfish, violent bully with no feelings whatsoever for others, and this revelation shocked him to the core. The experience does give Dudley a more favourable impression of Harry, as seen in Deathly Hallows, when Dudley is the only member of the family to accept Harry he shakes his hand and thanks him for saving his soul from the Dementor attack, and shows some concern for him when the Dursleys leave to go into hiding. In his appreciation of his cousins belated gratitude, Harry says good bye to him using Dudleys former nickname, Big D. Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results. Albert Einstein Narcotics Anonymous Max Nordau George Bernard Shaw George A. Kelly Rita Mae Brown John Larroquette Jessie Potter Werner Erhard Dear Quote Investigator Its foolish to repeat ineffective actions. One popular formulation presents this point harshly The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. These words are usually credited to the acclaimed genius Albert Einstein. What do you think Quote Investigator There is no substantive evidence that Einstein wrote or spoke the statement above. It is listed within a section called Misattributed to Einstein in the comprehensive reference The Ultimate Quotable Einstein from Princeton University Press. The earliest strong match known to QI appeared in a pamphlet printed by the Narcotics Anonymous organization in 1. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI 2. The price may seem higher for the addict who prostitutes for a fix than it is for the addict who merely lies to a doctor, but ultimately both pay with their lives. Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. QI acquired a PDF of the document with the quotation above on the website amonymifoundation. February 2. 01. 1. The document stated that is was printed in November 1. The website was subsequently reorganized, but the document remains available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine database. Instances of the saying have been employed by other twelve step organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Below are additional selected citations in chronological order. The linkage between insanity and repetition has a long history. The controversial book Degeneration by Max Nordau was published in German in 1. English by 1. 89. Nordau examined the works of a variety of artists and savagely attacked those that contained repetition which he believed evinced a mental defect in the creator. For example, he criticized Maurice Maeterlincks La Princesse Maleine 3. Has anyone anywhere in the poetry of the two worlds ever seen such complete idiocy These Ahs and Ohs, this want of comprehension of the simplest remarks, this repetition four or five times of the same imbecile expressions, gives the truest conceivable clinical picture of incurable cretinism. These parts are precisely those most extolled by Maeterlincks admirers. When George Bernard Shaw reviewed Nordaus opus he turned the criticism of repetition back upon the author and suggested that Nordau might diagnose himself as mentally unsound 4. I have read Max Nordaus Degeneration at your request,two hundred and sixty thousand mortal words, saying the same thing over and over again. That, as you know, is the way to drive a thing into the mind of the world, though Nordau considers it a symptom of insane obsession on the part of writers who do not share his own opinions. His message to the world is that all our characteristically modern works of art are symptoms of disease in the artists, and that these diseased artists are themselves symptoms of the nervous exhaustion of the race by overwork. The 1. 95. 5 book The Psychology of Personal Constructs by George A. Kelly included a definition that corresponded to the saying under investigation although it employed a different vocabulary 5. From the standpoint of the psychology of personal constructs we may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation. This is an unusual definition, as psychological thinking ordinarily goes. In October 1. 98. If you always do what youve always done, you always get what youve always gotten. That was the advice of Jessie Potter, the featured speaker at Fridays opening of the seventh annual Woman to Woman conference. More information about the quotation above is available here. In November 1. 98. Narcotics Anonymous contained a close match as noted previously Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. The 1. 98. 3 novel Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown included an instance credited to Jane Fulton who was a character within the book 7. The trouble with Susan was that she made the same mistakes repeatedly. Shed fall in love with a woman and consume her. Susan thought that her mere presence was enough. S7 Protect Crack on this page. What more was there to give When she tired, usually after a year or so, shed find another woman. Unfortunately, Susan didnt remember what Jane Fulton once said. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. A June 1. Sudden Death in The Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi reprinted the saying 8. Womens tennis gets a thorough dissecting in this story. Jane Fulton is the critical sports writer who contends Modern professional sports rewards players for function instead of character. Responsibility is normally defined as doing a job better than anyone else. She looks askance at professional tennis and says Win and become a god. Lose and be forgotten. Finally after following the lives and careers of the players, and the game itself, she concludes, Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, but expecting different results. Also in 1. Samuel Beckett, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, offered a counterpoint perspective in his work Worstward Ho 9. All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. In January 1. 98. Emmy winning actor John Larroquette who was a star in the television comedy series Night Court shared the definition during a newspaper interview 1. He pops in a definition of insanity Its the repetition of the same action expecting different results. Like jumping out of a 4. It is NEVER different. In April 1. Baltazar A. Acevedo Jr in The Dallas Morning News of Texas included the saying 1. I once heard insanity defined as a process by which an individual or a system does something over and over again in the same way while yet expecting different results. To continue to evaluate and address issues in our community strictly along ethnic, instead of human, considerations is insane if only for one reason It will lead to the polarization that is the standard of paranoid societies. The 1. 98. 8 book Raising Self Reliant Children in a Self Indulgent World included an instance 1. Flexibility is the ability to bend when we find ourselves in unworkable positions. A universal characteristic of insanity is inflexibly doing the same thing over and over while hoping for different results. Flexibility in the face of changing circumstances, by contrast, is a hallmark of mental health. By 1. 99. 0 the saying was being attributed to Einstein. For example, the Austin American Statesman of Austin, Texas published the following remark made by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 1. Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. In 1. 99. 1 The Seattle Times printed the thoughts of an Indiana judge who ascribed another version of the saying to Einstein 1. The jurist from the Hoosier State subscribes to Albert Einsteins definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. In 2. Knight Ridder News Service ascribed a version of the saying to the influential lecturer and trainer Werner Erhard although the name was misspelled as Erhart 1. Werner Erhart described insanity as repeating identical behavior and expecting a different result. If we repeatedly have difficulties in an area of life, doesnt it make sense that our behaviors cause the problems In 2. Youve been quoting that clich for years.