It's odd rereading the HP books after several years...

I finished PS and have moved on to COS. It's been a while since I read all the books, particularly the earlier ones in detail. It's a bit odd when you realize just how awful the Dursleys were to Harry. In the movies, it's obviously depicted in an almost cartoonish way which is probably the only way to make it palatable given how vile they were. I think it might have benefited if they had given Petunia some texturing. We know in DH that her dislike for Lily and wizards is more out of envy and jealousy than outright fear of their strangeness, and that she had some knowledge of the wizarding world, and Petunia and Lily did seem like they were close before Lily went to Hogwarts, so it might have been nice to show Petunia having the occasional bit of affection for Harry as the only remaining piece of her little sister. But she was basically just as vile as Vernon.