10 Deleted Scenes Which Totally Change Classic Films

6. Dudley Apologises To Harry In The Deathly Hallows

Let us tell you a magical story: a young boy is orphaned when he is a baby, his parents murdered in the line of duty whilst protecting the world from a fundamentalist terrorist. Thankfully he has an aunt and uncle that take him in rather than letting him be shuttled around child services his whole life, and they treat him like !*$% and keep him locked in the cellar. So not only is he an orphan but he's an orphan who is, essentially, a prisoner of his only living relatives. That's pretty bad. Don't worry, though, because this aunt and uncle have their own kid! Surely a child of the same age will be nice and sympathetic to his cousin? Nope. If anything, he's the worst bully of all.

That's the basic set up of the Harry Potter series, which we think is a magical and entertaining franchise of books and movies we think are suitable for children for some reason. It sounds more like a bleak kitchen sink drama to us to be honest, but that's mainly because we never go to the bit with the flying broomsticks and magic wands and Hagrid and stuff. Things get a different kind of bleak when we reach the final entry in the epic series, the two-part film adaptation of The Deathly Hallows, which sees Voldemort (that's the aforementioned fundamentalist terrorist, if you're unfamiliar) deciding to start up his war against, er, everyone once again.

Amongst all the loose ends the last in such an epic, ongoing and beloved series that need to be tied up - along with the actual plot - they actually ended up forgetting about the Dursleys and, specifically, Dudley, that little toe rag of a cousin that made Harry Potter's pre-Hogwarts life such a living hell. So whilst everything else works out nicely in the end - SPOILERS - Harry never actually gets any sort of closure from his crappy family. Except he did in this deleted scene when Dudley has a surprisingly touching interaction with his magical cousin, which makes things marginally less tragic for the Boy Who Lived.