Harry Potter fans win: UK project worth hundreds of millions moved due to Dobby

Harry Potter fans have won: a £430 million electricity project in the UK was moved after hundreds of fan complaints led planners to reroute the cable so it would not pass near the site where Dobby's death scene was filmed on a beach in Pembrokeshire. The project, Greenlink, will connect the British electricity grid to Ireland.

Harry Potter fans have caused the rerouting of a massive electricity project in the UK. The Greenlink project, costing £430 million, aims to connect the British electricity grid to Ireland via an underground cable about 200 km long. The planned route passed near a beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where the death scene of Dobby was filmed in the Harry Potter films. Fans, who regard the site as a pilgrimage site and place stones with messages in his memory, made hundreds of appeals to planners. Dalem, founder of Etchea Energy, said that after understanding the significance of the place, he discussed with planners how to divert the cable so it would not approach 'Dobby's grave'. The project is now progressing along a new route. In archaeological excavations near the route, a Bronze Age jar was found, dated to 1700–1500 BCE. Fans were asked not to place socks on the mock grave due to the environmental sensitivity of the beach. The article also mentions a teaser for the new Harry Potter TV series from HBO.