4 Privet Drive was the street address of the home owned by Vernon and Petunia Dursley. They lived in this home with their son, Dudley as well as their nephew, Harry Potter, son of Lily Potter, Petunia's late sister and Lily's late husband James Potter.
4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging is home of the Dursleys where the saga begins. This is an actual home in Berkshire, located at 12 Picket Post Close, Bracknell. Fame brought fortune to the owners of the home—it was sold in 2016 for £650,000, 1/3 more than the asking price.
Potterheads, you can now say Accio to Harry Potter's childhood home—if you have £475,000 ($620,000) to spare. In the Muggle (or non-magical) world, the iconic house at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey is actually located at 12 Picket Post Close, Bracknell, Berkshire—about 40 miles west of London.
Instead of being given a real bedroom, Harry was kept in the cupboard under the stairs. In addition to sleeping in the cupboard and keeping his possessions, it also served as a place for the Dursleys to punish Harry every time he accidentally unleashed some magic.
4 Privet Drive was the street address of the home owned by Vernon and Petunia Dursley. They lived in this home with their son, Dudley as well as their nephew, Harry Potter, son of Lily Potter, Petunia's late sister and Lily's late husband James Potter.
Its founder was the medieval witch Helga Hufflepuff. The emblematic animal is a badger,and yellow and black are its colours. The Head of Hufflepuff is Pomona Sprout and the Fat Friar is the House's patron ghost.
The three-bedroom suburban cul-de-sac house featured as 4 Privet Drive, Surrey, home of the boy wizard's dreadful aunt and uncle, the Dursleys. But it is, in fact, 12 Picket Post Close in Bracknell, Berkshire.
The Bracknell property had previously been sold by Chancellors estate agent for £650,000 in 2016, a whopping £200,000 over the asking price. However, the sale fell through and it was re-listed earlier this year. It was bought for £290,000 in 2010.
Anyone want to ACTUALLY live under the stairs? Harry Potter may not have been too fond of Privet Drive, but turns out that someone out there may actually have it as their address one day soon. Because, yes, Privet Drive, the home to the Dursleys has now been SOLD... for £200,000 ABOVE the asking price.
It's unknown what happened to Grimmauld Place when the Second Wizarding War was over, but even though Harry was not living in it, it's possible that it was kept safe for the Order of the Phoenix.
The Weasleys' home, known as the Burrow, is located outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole, which is situated alongside the River Otter in Devon, England, also near the home of the Lovegoods, the Diggorys and the Fawcetts.
You Can Now Visit Harry Potter's Childhood Home at Number 4 Privet Drive. While you may never receive your own acceptance letter to Hogwarts, you can at least now go see the thousands that got delivered to Number 4 Privet Drive.
Petunia never showed any love and affection at all towards Harry because he reminded her of Lily and the wizarding world. She treated him as a waste of space, giving him the cupboard under the stairs at first and making him do all the chores. She, along with Vernon, ignored most of Harry's birthdays.
On 31 July 1991, Rubeus Hagrid, despite being forbidden to perform magic, attempted to transfigure Dudley Dursley into a pig, after his father Vernon Dursley had crudely insulted Albus Dumbledore at the Hut-on-the-Rock, but only managed to give him a tail.
In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Vernon stated in the beginning of the film that the Dursleys gave Harry the Smallest Bedroom "purely out of the goodness of our hearts" after Harry's first year at Hogwarts.
The Potters' generational wealth is traced back to their ancestor, Linfred of Stinchcombe, who amassed a great fortune through his medicinal services and inventions of healing potions.
It was this particular Remembrall that drove Harry Potter into his career as the Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. When Neville Longbottom accidentally flew into the air in his first flying class, he left it behind when he crashed and broke his wrist. Draco Malfoy took it and threw it high into the air.
Even though 4 Privet Drive has appeared in all eight movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling's book series, the actual home was only used in just one movie before the house — and the entire street — was re-created into a set in a studio for the other films. Fans can visit the set of the film on the Warner Bros.
Number Four, Privet Drive was the pristine, suburban home of Vernon and Petunia Dursley and their son Dudley, located in the Surrey town of Little Whinging.
Fans of the boy wizard will recognize 12 Picket Post Close as 4 Privet Drive, home of Harry's dastardly aunt and uncle, the Dursleys. The couple grudgingly took Harry in after his parents were murdered and made him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.
The Sorting Hat, now animated, was able to sort and divide the students into the Hogwarts Houses, and continued to do so for a millennium, passed down to each new Headmaster or Headmistress of the school. When not in use, it is placed on a shelf in the current Headmaster's or Headmistress's office.
Desperate to see her daughter one last time, Rowena sent a man to bring Helena home. Unfortunately, that man was the Bloody Baron, who was in love with Helena, and stabbed her in a rage when she refused to come home. After Helena was tragically killed, legend tells us that Rowena Ravenclaw died of a broken heart.
In true Ravenclaw fashion, Luna is an independent thinker and is never afraid to correct others. Despite being overlooked and often mocked by her peers, she never once doubts herself. She has the strength to believe in herself and her own wisdom – a trait which makes Luna Lovegood a true Ravenclaw.
