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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

10 days ago by Technoworcester to c/nottheonion

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Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below

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PRIMEcavitationfetishist 98 points 10 days ago

Okay yeah Harry Potter fans need to fucking stop. Just fucking stop. Read a book that isn't fucking shit.

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prole 19 points 10 days ago

Read literally any fucking book

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moldy_rice 12 points 10 days ago

Malania Trump's memoir it is.

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PRIMEcavitationfetishist 4 points 9 days ago

Okay maybe have some standards. You know they're gonna go straight for mein Kampf.

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Dojan 6 points 10 days ago

Harry Potter fans aren't necessarily readers. Harry Potter succeeded because a media empire was built with it, not because it was a good story that spawned a lot of readers.

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remon 21 points 10 days ago

The books (especially the first) were one of the biggest best sellers of all time and an international success long before there were movies or any "media empire", saying it didn't spawn a lot readers is just ... dumb.

I'm pretty sure a lot more people have read the books than thre is Harry Potter fans these days, simply because most people eventually grow out of it.

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starlinguk 3 points 10 days ago

The first few books had zero merchandise because Rowling was against it. I know, talk about a change of heart...

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PRIMEcavitationfetishist 2 points 9 days ago

Maybe someone should teach them to read?

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