Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
A perfectly ordinary house in a perfectly ordinary Muggle suburb in Little Whinging, Surrey — where Harry Potter spent ten miserable years sleeping in a cupboard under the stairs before learning he was a wizard.
Number 4, Privet Drive is the most aggressively normal place in the Harry Potter universe, which is exactly why Dumbledore chose it. Lily Potter's blood sacrifice created a protection that would keep Harry safe from Voldemort as long as he could call his mother's blood relatives' home his own. The Dursleys — Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley — were that blood connection, and they made Harry's childhood a masterwork of petty cruelty: a cupboard for a bedroom, Dudley's cast-offs for clothes, no birthday presents, no affection, and a systematic campaign to stamp out anything unusual. The house has been invaded by Hogwarts letters, visited by Hagrid, blown up by accidental magic, descended upon by Weasleys via Floo powder, and attacked by Dementors. The Dursleys endured all of it with mounting horror. Harry left for the last time at seventeen and never looked back.
A neat, unremarkable detached house on a street of identical neat, unremarkable detached houses. Trimmed lawn, clean windows, polished car in the driveway. The cupboard under the stairs has a small camp bed, dust, and spiders. Harry's second bedroom — grudgingly given after the Hogwarts letters started arriving — is small, with bars briefly installed on the window by Vernon. The house screams normalcy so loudly it becomes its own kind of strange.
Also known as: Privet Drive, 4 Privet Drive, the Dursleys' house, Number Four