Susan Bones

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## Relationship Information

### Parents

* Victor Bones (father; deceased)
* Charlotte Davies (mother; deceased)

### Children

* Viola Dursley (daughter)
* Iris Dursley (daughter)
* Henry Dursley (son)

### Other Relatives

* Mr. Bones (paternal grandfather; deceased)
* Mrs. Bones (paternal grandmother; deceased)
* Amelia Bones (paternal aunt; deceased)
* Edgar Bones (paternal uncle; deceased)
* Vernon Dursley (father-in-law; deceased)
* Petunia Evans (mother-in-law; deceased)
* Wedelia Dursley (sister-in-law)
* Amaryllis Weasley (niece)
* George Weasley II (nephew)

**Susan Diana Dursley** (née **Bones**) (born 1980) is a British halfblood witch and the only daughter and child of Victor Bones and Charlotte Davies. She is the wife of Dudley Dursley and the mother of their children; Viola, Iris, and Henry Dursley.

She attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1991 to 1999 and was sorted into Hufflepuff.

**Susan** is a member of the **Bones Family**, the **Davies Family**, and the **Dursley Family**. She is also a descendant of the **Bulstrode Family**, the **Flint Family**, and the **Noble House of Black**.

## Biography

### Hogwarts (1991-1999)

Susan received her invitation to attend and study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in July 1991. On 1 September, 1991, Susan was sorted into Hufflepuff house.

#### First Year

Susan Bones started her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991 the same year as the famous Harry Potter. Susan shared a boat with Seamus Finnigan and Hermione Granger. She was the third student to be called upon by Minerva McGonagall for the Sorting ceremony and was Sorted into Hufflepuff House.

The Head of Hufflepuff House at the time was Pomona Sprout, the Herbology Professor. She was sorted into this house along with Hannah Abbott, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Wayne Hopkins, Megan Jones, and Ernie Macmillan all of whom she presumably became friends with. It is also assumed that Hufflepuff house is the house that many of her relatives were Sorted into as well.

During her first year, Susan would learn all about the basics of magic and spell performance, like her other classmates. She was also present at the End-of-Term Feast during which Gryffindor won the House Cup breaking Slytherin's seven year winning streak.

#### Second Year

During her second year, Susan seemed to develop a crush on then-Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, which caused her to be off-task daydreaming during his lessons. She participated in the Duelling Club, as a precaution due to the Basilisk attacks that occurred after the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.

At the meeting, Susan witnessed her fellow Hufflepuff Justin Finch-Fletchley almost attacked by a serpent, including Harry Potter giving it orders in Parseltongue. Like most present, she did not have the ability to understand the language, and may have assumed that Harry was egging on the snake, as several other students did. In reality, he had successfully ordered it not to attack Justin.

Susan seemed to become good friends this year with Hermione Granger, a Gryffindor. The two shared an interest in the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart. They usually sat together in their Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, listening intently to Lockhart's every word. Both appeared quite giddy when Lockhart passed out his pop quiz at the beginning of the first lesson, giggling to each other when he walked away.

In Herbology she and Hermione also worked next to one another when potting Mandrakes. It must have come as a shock when her friends Hermione and Justin Finch-Fletchley, along with Colin Creevey, were all petrified by the Basilisk living in the Chamber of Secrets.

Later in the year, Lockhart was exposed as a fraud. Presumably, after learning the truth that Lockhart was not a great and heroic wizard in the end of the school year, she lost her interest in him. When Hagrid returned to Hogwarts, Susan applauded him along with a majority of the school as they celebrated the close of a terrifying year.

#### Third Year

During her third year, she would have to select what subjects she wished to take. The school would also be in believed danger from Azkaban escapee, Sirius Black, who was suspected to be looking for Harry Potter.

#### Fourth Year

During Susan's fourth year Hogwarts held the Triwizard Tournament and Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory was one of the Triwizard champions. It is likely that Susan Bones supported Diggory in favour of Harry Potter, as he was in her house and both her best friends Hannah Abbott and Ernie Macmillan were strong supporters of Diggory.

Cedric Diggory was technically the joint-winner of the Tournament with Harry Potter after he and Harry both reached the Triwizard Cup, thus making them the champions. Sadly, Diggory was murdered by Lord Voldemort after being taken to Little Hangleton along with Potter, beginning the Second Wizarding War. The students were horrified to learn of Cedric's death, especially those of Hufflepuff, who were closest to him. Whether Susan had any closer relationship with Diggory is unknown, but it is more than likely that Susan attended the Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory at the end of the school year.

#### Fifth Year

In 1995, Hogwarts was to be under the watchful eye of the Minister and his personally appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbridge. Umbridge worked with Susan's aunt in the Ministry, and both served on the court for Harry Potter's trial. When Umbridge came to Hogwarts, she ensured that no practical defensive spells would be taught in her lessons, despite the claims that Lord Voldemort had returned. Thus she did not teach anything worth learning.

With the students looking for a teacher, and Harry with the best knowledge of defensive and offensive spells, Hermione Granger pledged the idea of forming an alliance to learn spells and rebel against Umbridge. This organization would be called Dumbledore's Army, which Susan would become a member of. During the first meeting, Susan was curious to know whether Harry could produce a corporeal Patronus, a fact which she had been told by her aunt; when Harry asked if she knew Madam Bones, Susan confirmed the familial relationship.

Harry later gave lessons on Patronuses, but it is unknown whether Susan produced one or what form it took. Later on in the year, the Death Eaters who murdered her uncle Edgar and his family escaped from Azkaban, the wizarding prison, and many students questioned Susan for information about this. After the Death Eaters' escape, Susan told Harry that she understood how he felt, knowing that the person who had murdered his family was at large and constantly being asked questions about it. Harry finally had someone who could almost relate to his state of mind. Susan was pestered throughout the year by students asking about her family and its murdered members, which she found distressing.

On top of dealing with the murders of her family members, this year was also her O.W.L. year at Hogwarts, which left her in even greater stress as she attempted to keep it all together and do well in her exams.

Also, on at least one occasion Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle took it upon themselves to bully Susan, making fun of her aunt and complaining that she was interfering with the Ministry of Magic's agenda. They went so far as to take her wand, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione had to come to her aid. The trio duelled the two Slytherins, defeating them and forcing them to leave Susan alone. Susan got her wand back and learned about the D.A. meeting in the Room of Requirement.

At the end of the year, Susan was among the D.A. members who came to Harry's aid when he was attacked on the Hogwarts Express by Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle, her own erstwhile bullies. Susan and her friends all unleashed a volley of jinxes and hexes which reduced the three to gigantic slugs.

#### Sixth Year

During the summer holidays before her sixth year at Hogwarts, one of Susan's last living relatives and one of the greatest witches of her time, Amelia Bones, was personally murdered by Lord Voldemort in her own home, though to her credit she did not go down without a fight. Losing her aunt this way would have been especially shocking and tragic for Susan and her parents after most of her extended family had already been killed during the First Wizarding War. With the Second Wizarding War now being fought openly, the remaining members of her family were also under threat of being sought out by Death Eaters.

When Susan returned to Hogwarts, she took the Apparition lessons offered to all students of her year. On one occasion she Splinched herself during a lessons, losing one of her legs. Her leg was successfully reattached, but the incident appeared to leave Susan somewhat shaken.

Later on in the school year, Hogwarts fell under attack by Death Eaters. The D.A. members were called to arms via their coins, and despite the murder of her aunt, Susan did not show up for battle. It is possible that since the D.A. meetings were no longer held, Susan no longer carried her coin around with her and did not notice the summons.

#### Seventh Year

Susan returned to Hogwarts for her seventh year, at which point the school was under the indirect control of Lord Voldemort. If she dropped out, she would have been a fugitive. Attendance was compulsory for children of magical families that year. Susan would have been in danger anyway, with her being a member of the Bones family. A wizarding family high on Voldemort's list to eliminate, as most of them were staunch supporters of Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.

While under the control of Lord Voldemort and his followers, students were brutally punished and taught different subjects. For example, how to use dark magic instead of defending against it. Sensing the need for rebellion yet again, Susan joined the reconstituted Dumbledore's Army. She and fellow D.A. members stood up against Death Eater control of Hogwarts.

Susan may have participated in spray painting the walls or helping fellow students who were also suffering. She would hide in the Room of Requirement, as the room had become a sort of sanctuary for D.A. members. She was in the room when Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger returned to Hogwarts.

##### Battle of Hogwarts

She rejoined Dumbledore's Army, which had been reformed in a protest against Snape and the Carrows and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts alongside members of the D.A. and her professors.

She was most likely in the Great Hall during the second half of the battle and witnessed Harry Potter's final defeat of Lord Voldemort and therefore the end to the Second Wizarding War, as she was not listed among the deceased.