He was unsettled by the boy's unnatural green eyes that seems to stare right into your soul, he was uncomfortable with the freaks ability to know things that any normal child should not know, he was unnerved by the child's quietness, the fact he could move around the house without making a sound and just seemed to appear in the room when you needed him but above all he was afraid of the things that seemed to happen around the boy, the reports from his teachers about their hair turning blue, about him finding his way on top of the school building without anyone seeing him, there were incidents such as his scruffy black hair growing back overnight after being completely shaved off or the time he disappeared while Dudley and his young friends were being friendly or perhaps the time the lock on his door unlocked itself before Vernon had put a bolt on it. All of it added up in the mind of Vernon to a boy who was a freak, an abnormality and danger to the family, and Vernon Dursley would never allow his family to be threatened. This is why he never liked to give the boy any proper clothes, less he began to feel too important. This is why he always kept the boy hidden away in that cupboard, lest the neighbours see him, sending him to school only when necessary, to avoid the boy getting too smart, keeping him busy with idle chores so that he would never be allowed to see himself as part of the family. Vernon did everything in his power to keep the freak away from his wife and his son and to stop the freakishness spreading.