1. 'Harry And Petunia's Final Chat' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Deleted Scene

Harry walks into the empty living room of Number 4 Privet Drive and sees his aunt Petunia standing there looking somber at having to leave her lovely home behind. She usually snubs him but, this time, they have a final conversation. Petunia says she's reluctant to go and Harry informs her that, if she stays, she'll face problems if Lord Voldemort and his loathsome Death Eaters decide to pay a little visit. She then retorts that she knows exactly what they're capable of and, rather uncharacteristically, adds: Do you think I don't know what they're capable of? You didn't just lose a mother. I lost my sister'. This was actually in the book, as well, and would have been an excellent addition to the film.

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[princesssakura]

When Petunia says, "I lost a sister" you can see her eyes slowly becoming glossy. She wants to cry from the guilt, sadness and pain she has been feeling all this time for lily, but ends up holding it in and walks away.

[seren]

This shouldn't have been deleted. Dudley's scene either.

[marsthemedic]

One moment of vulnerability doesn’t forgive seventeen years of abuse.

If she really loved Lily, she would have cared for Harry like a son.

[jwjw]

This scene gives me chills every time I watch it. Fiona Shaw is brilliant. So much depth, and so many complex emotions — a surprising sadness for Petunia and her own loss, and a renewed sense of grief for Harry and the kind of aunt he deserved but never had.

[unicornplaydom]

*"When Harry was little, he saw Dudley give Aunt Petunia a gift for Mother's Day. He thought, 'I should give her a gift too!" He went outside, and he found a flower, 'Its perfect!' He said, and went over to Petunia and gave it to her. Petunia didn't like the gift, until she saw the flower was a lily."*

[PyrBen]

While this doesn't justify her treatment of Harry in the slightest, it does add good depth of character.

[magenta]

The moment when Aunt Petunia just walks past Harry without even looking at him or saying goodbye it's sad (and, to some point, heartbreaking), not only because he was her nephew, but the only "memory" alive she had from Lily

[Orynsbelt]

From the film series, one of my favorite scenes. Our boy Harry learned Aunt Petunia also suffered loss and experienced pain.

[robinpopovich]

this is one of the best scenes in the whole movie...never should have been cut.

[IvanethC]

We know that Petunia loved Harry deep down caushe she kept Harry’s blanket when he was delivered by Dumbledore. That was emotional for Harry

[Bardim]

You know, given this and Dudley's deleted scenes, I have the impression that Vernon was the one who mostly made Petunia and Dudley hate Harry. I feel that Petunia and Dudley would've been nicer to Harry had it not been for Vernon.

[kingolo]

They mistreated him his entire life, and yet he still protected them

[Hardtarget]

The fact she treated him that way showed how she felt about her sister .. she treated him terribly and to not say bye and just walk past him was saddening

[gupworld]

This scene makes you almost reconsider the Dursley’s(or at least just Petunia’s) intentions entirely, they treated Harry like dirt because of his wizard blood but if they actually despised him would it not be simple enough to eagerly ship him off to hogwarts and refuse to allow him to stay with them every summer? It’s almost as if they envied his abilities but at the same time they wanted to protect him from what killed Lily and James

[RiverSprite]

If Lily knew how badly her sister treated her son, she wouldn't miss her at all.

[Clonetrooper]

They really should have left this closure scene in. It would have added to the development of Harry's character. Dudley's scene, as well. It exemplified how they had grown. Aunt Petunia was jealous of her sister's gifts, yes, but she still loved her. She was in emotional pain all those years and she radiated that toward her nephew. She came to understand, at last, that they BOTH had lost someone they loved that night at Godric's Hollow. Even if Harry was just an infant, he would never truly know his parents except through what he was told of them. That is an emotional scar he will carry forever. Petunia would never truly be free of the guilt she felt at cutting her sister out of her life.

[chrispeplinski]

This scene showed petunia did have some feeling of love towards Harry and lily despite not showing it

[reviathan]

Another powerful quote about losing someone, to me, was from a Disney Channel movie called Smart House. The character, Ben, lost his mother, and at one point of the movie when he had an argument with his father, the father just dropped the line "Because you're not the only one who lost someone, Ben!"

[kmdunklin]

This might be a nice contrast to Snape's actions due to their childhoods. Petunia said that Lily was basically the golden child because she was a witch, so Petunia gave her son all the attention she felt she never got from her parents. At the same time, Petunia is likley the only one who could've convinced Vernon to let Harry come back every year.

[Synlidwirh]

Memory can be a tricky thing... I imagine SNape had more colored memories of Lily being somewhat more innocent and Petunia being mean... but when you do get information about her it paints a picture that she loved her sister but was jealous. I can imagine her parents being excited their daughter got a letter which might have overshadowed something she accomplished and subsequently through the years it repeating and her getting rejected from Hogwarts. Her sister likely wasn't pure and innocent about it if they had arguements and maybe they would fight as family can do and your family can be the most vicious when it comes to hurting you. Then a war breaks out and Lily is one of the people on the frontline fighting and something happened to their parents in the book they die and are pretty young... and I don't think they explain what a "normal muggle death" means it seems a little too specific to say old age. Her sister dies shhe is asked to keep Harry safe... which she did go to far in the opposite neglecting him to the point it was abuse to likely in her mind keep him from developing magic so he couldn't be accepted to hogwarts. Which I think her attitude towards him might have changed eventually if he had never received a letter... since children get them at a certain age so if he had gone without then maybe. The ending between them is strong and you see it throughout sometimes.... that they had Fiona Shaw for the role was well... Much like having Rickman when you need someone to do emotional moments there are few better.