Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn't run through it.

In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”.

The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.

Priorities are in order!

This is fucking pathetic

At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds

Jesus Christ, they're not even good children's books

Okay yeah Harry Potter fans need to fucking stop. Just fucking stop. Read a book that isn't fucking shit.

y'all i was a mega harry potter fan growing up and even i think this was pathetic; READ ANOTHER BOOK

What I don't get is, how did Dobby get so much love in the Harry Potter fandom while Jar-Jar Binks in Star Wars got so much hate? They were both insufferably annoying characters.

I get that Dobby has fans; what I don't get is why the same wasn't extended to Jar-Jar.

Jar-Jar didn't die, I guess, but I feel like even if he did, fans would glaze him over decades later. They'd say "good riddance" and that would be that.

I don't give a fuck about HP Whatshercunt, but I do love this story. Because it shows that collectively we have more power then these companies. If we could get our shit together and stop fighting each other we could bully them into litterally anything we want because THERE ARE MORE OF US. It's so dumb that we have let a tiny group of people convince us, the larger group that massively outnumbers them, they have all the power in the relationship.

This is actually a win. The original site was going through an ecological sensitive area. People fought to protect the "grave" of a fictional character but accidentally protected a delicate ecology. That is more important than protecting the dead, real or not.

Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

"How did Donald Trump win in the US? How could so many people be so stupid and out of touch with reality?"

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

I was dragged along to see this by my kids. Having never seen the movies or read the book, I was expecting something substantially more than the pile of rocks with some old socks.

Yikes. Fuck these dumbasses.

wow this sucks

Who the fuck cares about Dobby's grave!

Cult behavior.

probably not true, fortunately: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1vjde6y/rumours_speculation_questions_and_reaction/p2t4b8m/