Petunia Evans Dursley

Yeah

... is running from bullies, and he wants to get away from them, and suddenly he's on the school roof, and subsequently every time Aunt Petunia gives him a horrible haircut, all his hair grows back immediately overnight, and then he goes to the zoo and starts disappearing glass.

Oh.

Harry Dresden is in a race, and he wins a blue ribbon 'cause he jumps so far, 'cause he just wanted to win so bad.

"Respect and love to you, Ali.

They've asked me twice and I've explained my answer is never gonna change from a no." Earlier this week, Belle Pawley, who plays the boy wizard's Aunt Petunia on the upcoming HBO series, publicly disagreed with Rowling's comments.

Quote, "I strongly disagree with J.K. Rowling's views on gender," she told The Telegraph.

"I think the trans community deserves safety and dignity and respect and total acceptance." Oh, you disagree with JKR, do you? Well, wait, Mo Ryan's not finished.

The worst.

We have his Aunt Petunia, played by Belle Pauley, his terrible Uncle Vernon, played by Daniel Rigby, and their horrible spoiled son, Dudley, played by Amos Kitson.

The article points out that they treat Harry like, quote, "owl poo."

A colorful, deeply accurate description of a profoundly toxic, loveless environment designed to crush a child's spirit.

The idea is you're working with a model that has a bunch of context in it up to this point, and you want to understand what's going to predict the next token that it's going to generate.

Let's imagine that in the context you have this phrase, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, because you're talking about Harry Potter.

The important concept that we have here is we have an instance in the context, let's say, of the word Mrs. being immediately followed by the word Dursley, or tokens really is what matters.

So what an induction head is going to do is let's say it generates the word Mrs. further down the road.

It's going to look back into that context and It's going to focus its attention on an area where it's seen the word Mrs. before, namely in that phrase, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley.

And then it's going to say, oh, well, based on the fact that Mrs. was followed by Dursley the last time I generated, what I'm going to do is go ahead and generate Dursley again as the next token in the sequence, given that I just teed myself up with Mrs.

This is the general idea of induction tokens.

We're going to come back to these in a little bit.

Right? Yeah.

So we open the story with the Dursleys, right? Mr.

and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive.

There's another word for you.

to it, right? And then it goes on, right? And that is, that first chapter is 100% narrated by an overt narrator, right? Yeah.

Right.

And then because the first part seems strangely all from the Dursleys, this outside narrator focusing on them.

Right.

But not Mrs. ...

I'm sorry, Mrs. Dursley.

Like M- uh, I'm sorry, Mrs., um-

Moaning Myrtle?

It's all virtue signaling political agenda right there

...

Well, they definitely wouldn't do it with the Dursleys, like with Mr. Dursley.

Of course not.

But so I guess the interesting part of this, too, was that there was all of this discussion and discourse that like popped up before he quit.

And the actress who plays Petunia Dursley in this also did a big interview where she kind of disavowed jk rowling and like separated herself from the views so it's just we are getting a lot of actors sort of feeling out the edges of like what is going like like what is acceptable and like what is going to be best for their career which i don't think is a good sign for hbo going into season one i have to say

Yeah, that's real awkward.

There must be a lot of money represented in trying to get actors to take the risk, because there is, like, definite risk.

This is from...

This is from the Telegraph, like a real like capital C conservative newspaper in the UK.

Howie will soon be playing Petunia Dursley in HBO's forthcoming adaptation of the Harry Potter books.

It is a project that also presents serious issues, albeit of a very different nature.