For some odd reason, my friend and I started talking about Dudley during Ceramics Class. It might have been the fact that Harry Potter is pretty much the only thing we talk about, but we never talk about the Dursleys. NEVER. But we couldn't stop thinking about what happened to Harry Potter's obnoxious cousin. J.K Rowling pretty much tied most loose ends in some interview a few years ago. Luna married Skarmander's great-grand son, Neville married one of Harry's Quidditch teammates, and George continued with Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. But we never got to hear about what happened to our Darling Dudders. Of course, after he, Petunia and Vernon were taken away by Dedalus Diggle and that other person, they really served no other purpose in the story. Their job was done. They had tortured Harry for nearly sixteen years, provided a home for him, and essentially kept him safe. But what happened after? Did he continue to be an insufferable douche? Did he and Harry get together? this is what I figured went down.
Dudley Dursley hadn't always thought his cousin Harry was a waste of space, considering he didn't actually take up all that much of it. He also figured that since he had saved his life from those damned invisible, soul-sucking creatures, Harry really couldn't be all that bad. He'd be damned, though, if he ever let anyone know that. He realized he actually missed him. Because it was rather amusing to listen in on whatever the hell it was his father was yelling about. He often wondered about what had happened to that scrawny little git.
"...after Dudley’s brave attempt at reconciliation at the start of Deathly Hallows, the two cousins would have remained on ‘Christmas Card’ terms for the rest of their lives, and that Harry would have taken his family to visit Dudley’s when they were in the neighbourhood (occasions dreaded by James, Albus and Lily)." --J.K. Rowling. I also agree that Dudley isn't just a nasty git. Though not the brightest nor kindest, he does make an effort to tell Harry that he really didn't hate him all that much. Like all of Rowling's other characters, Dudley isn't nearly as two-dimensional as he seems.
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