We partly needed him to be the underdog from the start, but one Potter fan has come up with a reasonable explanation of why The Dursleys were so horrid to our Harry.
When Harry Potter was orphaned, he was taken in by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, to live in their house on Privet Drive.
Being forced to live in a cupboard and being treated as the reject of the family, life would have been tough for Harry if he never made it to Hogwarts.
While most Potter fans would never give them the benefit of the doubt, one Reddit user, ChristieIsBored, has a pretty strong theory about why Harry’s aunt and uncle treated him so poorly:
‘It is shown in the last Harry Potter book(and technically the Chamber of Secrets as well), that horcruxes warp your mind while in your possession. They corrupt you into a bitter, grumpy, little prick over time. The locket turned the main trio against each other over a few weeks, the diary almost made Ginny resurrect the dark lord over the course of the year.
‘Harry technically turned into an horcrux himself after Voldemort tried to kill him after killing his parents. He was then given to the Dursleys who ‘cared’ for him for the next 11 years in the close confines of their home. Ignoring the fact that Petunia was afraid of magic in the first place, this could bring up the possibility that Harry is responsible for their cruelness. Slowing turning them bitter as a result of the horcrux imbedded inside of him.’
We’re not sure other fans will be quite as forgiving, but it makes for an interesting perspective…
