Mrs. Figg's House

Small cluttered suburban house two streets from Privet Drive with cabbage smell. Walls covered in cat photographs named Tibbles, Snowy, Mr. Paws.

Mrs. Figg's House, a small cluttered suburban home two streets from Privet Drive, serves as a pivotal surveillance outpost in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, where the eccentric Squib Arabella Figg keeps watch over her young charge amid a pervasive cabbage smell and walls plastered with photographs of her cats—Tibbles, Snowy, and Mr. Paws. Though it features prominently only in the first book as Harry's reluctant babysitting refuge after his broken arm, the house underscores the Order of the Phoenix's early protective network around the Boy Who Lived. Across the series, it fades into obscurity following Mrs. Figg's testimony at Harry's trial in Order of the Phoenix, symbolizing the transition from hidden guardianship to overt magical conflicts.