8 Harry Potter Moments That Are So Much Better In The Book

2. The Ending With The Dursleys

Ah, the Dursleys. It's impossible to forget how much we all hated them, that pompous, sneering family that consistently denied Harry happiness for so many of his defining years.

Watching a scene with the Dursleys was practically a rite of passage at the beginning of the early Harry Potter movies, reminding us of the reality Harry was forced to return to at the end of each school year and the shackles he'd have to break if he wanted back to Hogwarts.

Some of the funniest, most memorable moments in the whole series centre on the Dursleys, like the daring escape in the flying Ford Anglia, or Uncle Vernon's bulbous sister Marge inflating to entirely new heights.

Which makes it an absolute shame that things aren't properly patched up with the family on-screen. In the books, following Harry's saving of Dudley from a Dementor in Order Of The Phoenix, their interaction with Harry makes a subtle shift, though this is largely on the part of Dudley himself.

Initially misinterpreted by Harry as a joke, Dudley leaves tea outside of Harry's room, and then later bids Harry farewell when he leaves the Dursley household for good. But Harry later realises that these lukewarm gestures were actually the equivalent of a fairly emotional expression when coming from a Dursley, and that Dudley really was sorry for how he'd treated Harry.

It's not even like this realisation would have taken very long to include.