Undersea power cable diverted after "Harry Potter" fans complain

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.

Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters Harry Potter fans have successfully pushed a $580 million power project to change course after discovering that an underground cable could pass through the spot where Dobby, the fictional house elf, was buried in the film series. Dobby was killed and laid to rest on Freshwater West beach

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.

‘My colleague said “it’s very, very serious”, and it was serious.’

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.

Harry Potter fans’ outcry meant the project to transport energy from the UK to Ireland had to be diverted

Dobby’s final resting place has become a tourist attraction for Harry Potter fans (Picture: Warner Bros./Getty Images) Harry Potter fans have proven there’s clearly power in numbers, as their joint outrage forced the diversion of a multi-million-pound energy project. It has emerged that plans for a £430million Greenlin