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"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’
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.
probably not true, fortunately: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1vjde6y/rumours_speculation_questions_and_reaction/p2t4b8m/
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wow this sucks
I had a small inkling of hope that "dobby's grave" was something unrelated to hary pooper
Jesus Christ, they're not even good children's books
They are quite shit. They are easy reads, and it gets children to read, that's pretty good. But damn, shit makes no sense, and harry potter adults are pretty damn weird.
I like the books, hate the writer
Plus the Author is a bigot.
and dobby was the most poorly written one.
Not the Jewish bankers or Irish bomber?
they weren't Jewish, they were goblins...
It's, of course, a matter of taste whether or not you find them good. But let's not pretend that we're not talking about one of he most popular, best-selling children's book series of all time that spawned a 30+ billion dollar franchise of movies, merch, games, and a theme park. Plenty of people found them plenty good enough to generate that big of a financial success.
hey now, lets not try to get people to realize that other people's opinions matter.