How ironic is that a boy who hated to study and books decided to read a book at how to win over the girl of his dreams. And it was that book that made all the difference. The book is probably filled with basic common sense too so for him to follow it by the letter is just priceless!

Ginny was uncharacteristically emotional when she sees Harry and infant James bonding. Her hormones are unbalanced because of the pregnancy and she dreams of baby Harry being neglected. He sits in his crib crying as the Dursleys watch televsion and pretend not to hear him. He eventually cries himself to sleep and Ginny wakes up furious with the thought. Later she watches Harry and James play together and she can't hold back the tears. Harry tries to calm her down by saying he turned out okay even though he didn't have the ideal childhood, he's happy now and that's all that matters.

That sounds like a very good fan fiction idea, I can actually see that happening too.

I think when Harry and Dudley were babies, even though Petunia may not have been pleased with having a baby just dropped on her doorstep (and we can definitely assume Vernon wasn't) she still tried to treat them equally. She would play with them, dote on them, I mean it's just a baby, but then when Harry got older and his powers started to show then Vernon convinced her to "come to her senses".

As you can see I loathe Vernon!

Well, in the end, at least we know that Dudley makes his peace with Harry. I would hope that Petunia did too eventually...

I would hope so too.

I still feel Petunia raised Harry with resentment against Lily. That pain ran deep as we discovered. Even when she was saying goodbye to him she could not bring herself to say anything kind. So when I picture her with baby Harry it's always stand-off ish right from the very beginning. She'd take care of his basic needs as in feeding him and making sure he was clean and dry and not put into any obvious health danger. But rocking him to sleep and playing with him the same way she would with Dudley, I can't see it at all. And this is what would make Ginny so angry. Even though she doesn't know the truth about what actually happened when he was a baby, her assumptions would send her over the edge. But all it would take is for Harry to tell her, he doesn't dwell on the past to ease her sympathic angst.

That would be a good fan fic.

For me, nothing the dursleys can say will make me like them. I mean, it was sweet in dudder's own way how he said that he didn't think harry was a waste of space, but either way, being cruel to a child is much worst then being cruel to an adult. So in my eyes, they can do whatever they want, but I will never ever like them. Harry was only a child, and he grew up watching Dudley being pampered and spoiled, while he was barely being tolerated. It's just not fair. Plus, as we can see from Snape's memory, Petunia has been a bitter b**ch to "freaky" things, so it's no shock to see how she would tread Lily's freak of a son, regardless of his age. So I don't think she would have been all that nice to him even if he was a baby, probably just made sure he was fed and clean and generaly healthy.

I agree with that. But, I would like to think that she didn't spend the rest of her life considering her sister and her nephew as "freaks".

Which makes you wonder, wouldn't it be interesting if Molly and Petunia ever crossed paths? God, I would love that! It was made blatantly obvious that even though Molly refrained from insulting the Dursley's in front of Harry she liked them just about as much as they did him, so I can definitely see Ginny reacting like that and Harry reassuring her that no matter what may have happened he was happy now.

That's why I love the whole OBHWF thing, people may say it's cheesy, but I love it! He has a family!

I love it too! I don't care what people say because in the end it was OBHWF

About Petunia I think she changed her mind like Dudley did but she was too proud to admit it. That's why before they left she seemed to want to tell Harry something but she didn't.

I wonder what happened to Dudley, if he did change what is life would be like, I do see him and Harry in contact in the future like maybe a hello every now and then but I think that's as far as it will go. Whereas before I just saw him locked up some place!

Yeah. I guess 17 years of pain were all worth it, now Harry can do what he really wants. Happily raise his kids and snogg Ginny. That's what important isn't it?

his new and happy life with his family.

Harry would rather keep that in the past. Now he has a happy family!

Yeah, I don't think Harry would care much about it anymore because he has a family now. But Ginny, Molly, and even Hermione (basically all of the women in his life ) would probably still hold a grudge against the Dursley's no matter what they did.

And I would just like to say thank God she did not kill Arthur! After James, Sirius, Dumbledore, and Remus! Thanks to Molly and Arthur he has parents. BTW do you think he calls them Mum and Dad now? I doubt he would still be calling them Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.

No, he calls them Molly and Arthur now. And when he's talking to his kids it's Grandma and Grandpa. Awe, can't you just picture them as the perfect grandparents?!