10 Things Vernon Dursley is Ashamed of
1. He married a woman with an appalling background.
2. His son rejected the very respectable position he'd gotten for him at Grunnings is favor of going to university and majoring in, of all things, literature.
3. Harry has more money than he does.
4. His nephew is 'abnormal'.
5. In private his sister refers to Petunia as a 'distasteful creature' and he never steps up to his wife's defense, even though he wants to.
6. He still turns red with embarrassment when he remembers the time dragged his wife and son to that horrid island in an attempt to run away from those bothersome letters.
7. Once when he stumbled upon a picture of his wife and her sister as teenagers and he thought 'Hmm, looks like I didn't get the prettier of the two'.
8. When Harry was five years old he had without thinking yelled at Dudley's friends for pushing Harry off of the top of the jungle gym. Dudley's friends had started crying and said they would never play with Dudley again. Then Dudley had started crying. Harry had just started at Vernon, not even a scratch on him.
9. Sometimes he'd wanted to ask Harry to demonstrate for him some of his abnormal abilities. As much as he loathed admitting it, he was slightly curious about what sort of nonsense his nephew could do.
10. Vernon thought if Dudley turned out to be a freak like his cousin Harry, he wouldn't be able to love him anymore. He was never more relieved then he was the day Harry got that blasted letter, because Dudley didn't.