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The layout upstairs used to consist of Vernon and Petunia's room, a spare room, Dudley's room, and Dudley's other room (in addition to a bathroom of course). The dining room had a sizeable table just large enough to hold thirty-seven birthday presents and a few plates of bacon and eggs. The kitchen was filled with spotless modern top-of-the-range appliances, including a wide-screen television, seems to be mostly pink and white in colour, and was described as being surgically clean. The living room is also decorated in pastel tones of beige, salmon pink, and peach. The living room had a boarded-up fireplace, in front of which sat an electric fire, though it is unknown as to whether it was boarded-up before Vernon and Petunia moved in, or whether they boarded it up. The upper floor was known to contain at least one toilet. It is believed that Vernon then became frightened by the idea that the magical world knew how poorly Harry was being treated and decided to move Harry to Dudley's spare room to keep himself from getting in to trouble. However, when Harry's first letter from Hogwarts arrived via Owl post it was addressed to " Mr Harry Potter, the cupboard under the stairs".
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And, of course, the cupboard under the stairs (Harry's old room) which was full of spiders and just large enough for a young boy to sleep in. The downstairs consists of a living room, dining room, kitchen and hall. Nymphadora Tonks in particular was moved to comment about how clean it was when she visited as part of the Advance Guard, although it has to be said that she is used to the walking mess that is her father, Ted Tonks. Inside, the house was, if anything, even neater than the perfectly presented gardens. " - The colours on the inside of the house " Colours like peach and salmon pink are distinctly un-magical, and therefore much favoured by the likes of Aunt Petunia. In the end, Arthur destroyed the fireplace in order to get out, although he was kind enough to fix it before he left. The fact that the fireplace was boarded up caused something of a problem, as wizards and witches aren't used to this sort of thing happening to their fireplaces and thus weren't expecting such an obstacle to be put in their path. The house was temporarily connected to the Floo Network by Arthur Weasley when the family came to pick Harry up to take him back to the Burrow for the remainder of the summer holidays in 1994. The Advance Guard assembled here when they came to take Harry to 12 Grimmauld Place in the summer of 1995, as did the members of the Order of the Phoenix who were part of the Seven Potters plan in 1997. The Advance Guard collecting Harry from Privet Drive Both Harry's words and his tone of voice silenced his uncle, who couldn't think of a good argument against that. Harry scoffed at this theory, noting " Just in case you've forgotten, I've already got a house". Before the Order's arrival, however, Vernon Dursley was worried that the plan was actually a cover for a plot by Harry to "get the house". As it happened, the Order of the Phoenix chose to move Harry to a different safe house - during the famous "Seven Potters" operation - a few days in advance of his seventeenth birthday, after which the magical protection was broken. Harry wasn't the only thing that Dumbledore left behind him on this occasion: he also invoked strong magic granting Harry absolute protection from Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters whilst he was at the house, as long as Harry could still call Privet Drive his home, until he came of age on his seventeenth birthday. Īlbus Dumbledore first visited the house in 1981, delivering the baby Harry Potter to be put into the Dursleys care after the murder of his parents. The Dursleys bought the house and started living in it in 1977. Rubeus Hagrid delivering Harry Potter to Privet Drive She knows that allowing you houseroom may well have kept you alive for the past fifteen years." - Albus Dumbledore telling Harry Potter about the powerful magical protection Harry has while he calls Privet Drive home I explained what I had done in the letter I left, with you, on her doorstep. You need return there only once a year, but as long as you can still call it home, there he cannot hurt you. He shed her blood, but it lives on in you and her sister. " While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort.