‘Harry Potter’s’ muggle abode now on auction block

For sale: a prim suburban house in middle-class England that boasts a boy wizard and an owl among its former residents. The house played host to the muggle, or non-magical, family, the Dursleys, and their magical nephew in the “Harry Potter” movies.

With fans gripped by the fifth book in J.K. Rowling’s series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the owner of No. 4 Privet Drive -- in reality No. 12 Picket Post Close -- is putting the house up for auction on Tuesday with a starting bid set at $415,000.

The house in Bracknell, southeast England, was first used to film “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 1999. It was selected by a location spotter for its lack of interesting features, the newspapers said.