$580 million undersea power cable rerouted to spare Dobby the house-elf’s beachside ‘grave’

$580 million undersea power cable rerouted to spare Dobby the house-elf’s beachside ‘grave’  CNN

The CEO of Etchea Energy described being inundated with calls after inadvertently planning an underground cable beneath a memorial to the fictional "Harry Potter" character.

Harry Potter and the chamber of Dobby's 'grave': Fans force diversion of £430m cable route to save movie landmark  lbc.co.uk

A €500 million electricity interconnector between Ireland and Wales was diverted due to efforts from Harry Potter fans to save a memorial to Dobby the House Elf.

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach Harry Potter fans have forced a new multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland to be relocated after complaining it would desecrate the “grave” of Dobby, a fictional elf. The chara

It has been revealed that Harry Potter fans succeeded in diverting a multimillion-pound power link between the UK and Ireland after they pointed out the project would disturb a memorial to Dobby the House Elf.

The cable was originally “going to go straight through” the memorial at Freshwater West beach in Wales.

Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.