The Burrow

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The Weasley family home -- a ramshackle, magically-expanded house of many crooked stories where Harry spends the happiest weeks of his summer, discovering what a real family looks like.

The Burrow is Harry's first experience of a functioning, loving family. He arrives at midnight in the flying Ford Anglia and spends the rest of the summer de-gnoming the garden, eating Molly's cooking, playing Quidditch with the Weasleys, and feeling, for the first time, that he belongs somewhere during the holidays. The house runs on love and magic in roughly equal measure. The ghoul in the attic bangs on pipes. Fred and George's room is full of exploding prototypes. Ginny keeps dropping things and going red whenever Harry enters a room. Arthur Weasley asks about plugs and rubber ducks with uncontainable excitement. It is everything Privet Drive is not.

Appearance

A tall, narrow house that looks like it was once a stone pigpen and has had rooms added in every direction, held together by magic. A garden full of gnomes surrounds it. Chickens wander the yard. Inside: the Weasley clock, a self-washing sink, Molly's cooking, and the constant noise of a family that loves each other at maximum volume.

Also known as: the Burrow, The Burrow, the Weasley house

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