Harry Potter fans prompt reroute of UK‑Ireland undersea cable over Dobby burial site
the “dobby’s grave” landmark is just a small dead guy who died on the beach a few days ago. he’s not even buried, someone just saw him and said “that’s dobby” and everyone started piling harry potter merch on him. a sad end for lindsey graham
Dr, octocryptid PhD, chart reader 🜬70you say it's sad, but I see a man who died doing what he loved
normal aaron guy65its what he would have wanted, he loved microplastics so so much
Gore Vidal Sassoon36somebody gave him a sock right before he died
Seech15One of your best yet
Delbert Grady Seasons3The only Harry Potter-related buried alive story I want to read about involves (redacted)
So I’ve sifted through that whole “Dobby Grave Powerline” story going around and this is what I’ve pieced together: 1. The area was already a conservation site they could put the line anyway. 2. An internal joke about Potter fans got reported as true. 3. Potter fans are defacing protected land.
Oku ΘΔ613No, Harry Potter fans did NOT get a powerline construction project for green energy diverted to save their fake grave. That area was already protected conservation land, they already couldn’t built the power line there, but workers joked about it being because of the fake grave.
Oku ΘΔ72*couldn’t put the line I love how autocorrect just insists on changing words to their opposites after I’ve already typed several other words.
Oku ΘΔ47If you’re here from the discover feed then behave yourself or Doppelvyrn will skullfuck you.
Takel, Twelve Birds in a Trenchcoat18absolutely none of the new information coming out about this story is making me feel any more respect for the people involved in it
darkwingtwilight.bsky.social13Everything was fake save for Harry Potter fan are insane and will not let anything go no matter how much his change over the years.
Mind Titan9Begging Harry Potter fans to grow the fuck up already and find another media franchise
my own relationship with Harry Potter is, I think, bog-standard for a median-age millennial: I enjoyed the books just fine when I was an actual child, and I retained fairly pleasant memories about them until it was revealed that JK Rowling is a repulsive person
Faine Greenwood168I never did see the movies though
Wendy Worms15I loved the books and read them over and over. But JKR lost me early on when she kept adding to the canon instead of just letting the work stand on its own (Dumbledore is gay, the wizards used to shit on the floor, etc). So I had a pretty easy time letting it all go when she became a TERF.
Rap Bastardz®10I’ve never admitted it openly, but I always thought the Harry Potter movies were inexplicably overhyped. The first one was a B- with some fun moments and cool vfx, the rest were shit. Kids doing magic via cgi off the coattails of the pioneering work of Jurassic and Matrix was well timed. That’s it.
K.C. Clyburn, Author5i think my relationship with harry potter ended when i read the deathly hallows and found myself kind bored and weird unsatisfied with the conclusion. ive watched some of the movies since them. i still have nostalgia for it, as ya do, but i'm never materially supporting JK again.
EagleBeaverMan4I never read them as a kid and on a lark I tried the first few books a few years back and the thing that stands out to me is they have absolutely nothing to say. There is not much going on with them subtextually or thematically. It’s pure empty calories, unlike a lot of kids media.
Sandy-O3Elder Gen-x here so well into adulthood when they hit, never read any or watched movies. If I were a kid I'm sure I would have read them then moved on, as I read everything then moved onto adult fare. I don't remember any rabid fandom in kids my age.
elia ayoub33That was me as well. I think they were overall healthy for teenage me. That being said, I wish someone had told me about Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle back then.
Mr. Spookytime Grift10It was perfectly serviceable entertainment that got damn near perfect casting for a set of perfectly serviceable movies that I'd have been happy to throw on to distract my kids once they were old enough to enjoy it. Sadly, now I'll have to introduce my kids to Radcliffe with a better movie.
Curtis 🏳️🌈9Similar to Faine here. Current view of HP is now best summarized by this classic:
jw ♌️3They're fine stories, but it's mind-boggling to me that JKR created a whole house of students who for all intents and purposes are just…bad. Or straight-up evil. We're told there's more to Slytherins than that, but we never see it. I dunno exactly what worldview that was hinting at, but it's icky.
Harry Potter fans got a 125-mile cable line rerouted after bombarding its manufacturer with phone calls.
Pablo4I'm grateful I'm too old to have ever been part of the Harry Potter fandom. Embarrassing.
Amageish1I saw this trending here last night; I will admit that I did not realize how literal of a persuasion campaign it was until now. That's a wild use of one's time and energy!
Drew Starr1This didn't really happen. The guy was joking on a podcast and the Guardian writer doesn't know the beat and thought it was real. It's a protected beach and it never would have made sense even if it wasn't and the government documents in response to the worried potter dorks explained as much
Not the first time that Rowling fans have prioritised the rights of imaginary wizards over real people.
Peter Sketch23The story appears not to be true - the cable was moved away from the beach for other reasons. bsky.app/profile/dsqu...
Draco1Remind me to rent a backhoe and prove to those consoomers that their fictional character never existed.
Midwest Peoples Republic1TIL that little freak is dead
Lancer🐺27I wish all HP fans would vanish from our planet and I'm not even kidding
Static 😈 Read The Secret of Crocus Heights5This is actually too much
Hermes 🇵🇸5Vamos, soy yo y de madrugada aparezco con un bulldozer y se termina la tumba del bicho ese mas feo que una nevera vista desde atrás.
TheSporkMaster2The absolute fucking gall of these people. These are the same people that are would be ok if every Trans person died or who don't care about oil pipelines going through Native lands or data centers being built in low income neighborhoods. Absolute 100% the worse kinds of people on the planet.
Because there are people who need to hear this: You are not bad for *having liked Harry Potter* as a kid or even as an adult. You are not bad if things about it really helped you shape your identity! You are being a bad person *now* if you're *still* all in, when it's a transphobia incubator.
Kaldrenon63Almost everyone has a media property or creative work that was formative for them and genuinely helped them become their best self, which they later learned was made by someone who really sucked shit. And that HURTS. We know. But you can't keep carrying water for the shit-sucking parts.
Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat6*sigh* I remember when Orson Scott Card went around the bend, and he was a lot better author than Rowling
Sheepstealer's #1 Fan6Exactly. If you bought the books 20ish years ago, it’s fine. If you do a little marathon of the original movies you have on dvd, also fine. Watching the new series hbo is doing? Not fine. Bad. Fuck that noise.
Melico2That's part of what makes her betrayal so harmful, that so many people loved and took comfort from her work and she chose validation from hatemongers over the good things she purported to believe
What's fucked up about this is Dobby was actually cremated and his ashes were dumped in a river so his grave couldn't become a place of worship, kind of like Hitler
Sam5quoting this as "Dobby was actually [...] kind of like Hitler"
Lyndon B. Johnson's Roomba1His body was laid on the deck of an aircraft carrier before a short ceremony and burial at sea. There is a mark on the flight deck of that aircraft carrier where his corpse lay. Stop lying.
The Weasels are older1Thank goodness they obliterated hitler otherwise the place would be crowded with harry potter fans
I'm old enough to remember when, to promote Freddy's Dead: the Final Nightmare, New Line paid money to hold a real memorial service for fictional child predator Frederick Jamaal Kruger. And somehow the Dobby grave thing is still more stupid.
Ham8No, his middle name isn't Jamaal. bsky.app/profile/drre...
Randolph Lee Welty3Because of Citation Needed I’m going with Jamaal as his canonical middle name from now on.
Wolfechu1I'm old enough to remember Planters killing off their peanut mascot and replacing him with a baby peanut. Still less stupid
