Character from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Lily Potter's Muggle sister who raised Harry with resentment, her cruelty rooted in jealousy of the magical world that chose her sister and rejected her.
Petunia's cruelty toward Harry is the scar tissue of a wound that never healed — she wrote to Dumbledore begging to attend Hogwarts and was refused. She loved Lily once and hated her for leaving. She punishes Harry for reminding her of everything she lost and everything she could never be. She knows more about the wizarding world than she admits and her fear of it is tangled up with longing she will never acknowledge.
Thin, horse-faced, long neck she uses for spying over fences. Blonde, bony, pursed lips. Fastidiously neat and always overdressed for housework.
Also known as: Petunia, Mrs Dursley, Petunia Evans