OMG you had me here . . . He takes a large swallow of the truly abysmal chardonnay on offer and distracts himself by wondering how they convinced the kneazle to piss in the bottle. One of life's many mysteries. Then a fist fight! Severus's 'conversations' with the baby. Too perfect. Of course, the way they start dancing around one another, Severus fleeing (inevitable really). Harry knowing Severus was there-then going to him. Lovely.
But I have two reason's for adoring Dudley in this-one is that one thing I actually liked about DH was Dudley coming around in his feelings towards Harry. The other, entirely selfish but I can't resist mentioning it, is that I wrote a little piece for phoenix_flies where Harry adopts Dudley's daughter. In a way it's just so logical-he would adore his niece, treat her so much differently than he was treated. So when I say I love that, I admit I am a bit biased. All and all a wonderful fic.