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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1600313" data-attributes="member: 151">There have been, there just isn't time to show it. Hermione's parents are quite nice, as briefly as they're on camera. The same way as the Durselys need to be reduced to 2-dimensional characters after the first film...there's too much material, and they don't have time to flesh out characters who only appear in the very beginning of the book.    What, exactly has he done? Other than accidentally turning his aunt into a blimp (which was reversed, and the Dursleys memories were wiped), what terrible things has he done to them? As far as they know, thrown a cake around? Been slightly rebellious? Mildly threatened them to assert his rights to actually sleep in a room, not a crawlspace under the stairs? That's mild compared to most normal teenagers, frankly.   Even in the movies, they're horrible people. The only difference is, in the books, Harry is even more submissive, and they are much meaner. Particularly Dudley, who becomes a bully (although he still fears Harry to some extent).   Consider: in the movies, they go to a remote, deserted house off the coast of England, specifically just to prevent Harry from getting a letter to go to his school. His uncle knows that it directly violates his dead parents wishes, and goes to vast lengths to try and poison their memory to their own child. His aunt denigrates her own sister's memory, abuses her sister's surviving son and allows her own son to bully him, as well. They treat him like a servant, denigrate him at evey turn and lock him in his room like a prisoner after they finally are forced to move him out of the crawlspace.   The only difference is that in the books, his Aunt actually has some saving graces, whereas in the movies she's a virtual non-entity.</blockquote>

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