Harry Potter fans have shown their dedication once again! A multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland is being relocated after fans expressed concerns that it would disturb the “grave” of Dobby, the beloved house-elf at Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire.
Fans have been leaving stones inscribed with ‘Here Lies Dobby’ at Freshwater West beach, at the spot where Dobby said goodbye to his friends for the 2010 film ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’.
It's a testament to how much this character means to so many!
Freshwater West provided the dramatic backdrop for Shell Cottage and Dobby's final moments.
The £430m Greenlink interconnector, which links the National Grid to Ireland, was initially going to pass through the site of the “grave”, the project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast.
Fans became aware of the plans after Ludlam pointed out where the 125-mile (200km) cable to County Wexford would go underground at Freshwater West during a BBC interview.
Mr Ludlam explained: “We did the shot, we finished, I went back to London, and they then aired it a couple of weeks later. And we got hundreds of calls, I mean, hundreds of calls.”
He said he did not know who Dobby was, and became confused by the calls the company received, saying a colleague told him: “Apparently we’re going to go straight through Dobby’s grave”.
“I said: ‘Dobby, who’s Dobby? I don’t know Dobby?’ I said: ‘He’s a fictitious character in a fictitious book, the whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?’”
He said the colleague told him: “No it’s very, very serious.”
The firm then enlisted planners to find a new route that avoided the supposed grave. “A lot of people were very happy about that, and the project is now going [ahead] and Dobby’s happy.”
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