The list of things about which I know nothing at all begins with any movie or show that has the word "Star" in it, and then goes right through all 187 Harry Potter books, movies and I don't know what-all else Harry had. I just avoid the whole thing like iceberg lettuce.
But I read the other day 5 words that showed me how happy I was not to get embroiled in the Potter tales. These words were "Dobby, a freed house elf." I mean really. But I guess the rest of you know that old Dobby dies in Harry's hairy arms in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”
And after Dobby hobbles off to wherever elves die (hint: it's not on a shelf!) Harry says, “I want to bury him. Properly. Without magic.”
Well, friends, they filmed that scene where they pretend to bury an elf on the Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales. And then fans somehow found the time to take from reading the next installment of the Harry Chronicles to put up a sign saying “Here lies Dobby, a free elf” atop a pile of stones.
And don't you know, people flocked to see this pile of stones!
But evil forces were afoot, and people who didn't believe in flying elves but DID believe in supplying electricity to homes, businesses, and elf habitats needed to run a jumbo electrical cable under the beach. It was needed, in 2019, to carry electricity between Ireland and Britain.
Mr Simon Ludlam, the project manager for the electric cable project called Greenlink, appeared on BBC Wales to explain the whole thing. He stood on the beach where "Dobby" was "buried."
Remember now! This is all fiction! In the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Dobby dies in Cornwall, not Wales.
And Elves are not real. Elvis was real.
But Harry fans got all worked up.
Mr Ludlam said, “After it aired, we began to get calls. Many, many, many calls.” And after that barrage of phone messages, Mr Ludlam figured out that the concern over all this fiction was real...
He found out that people were leaving messages to Dobby on this pile of beach rocks, and that the crush of tourism was having a negative environmental impact on the beach. People cooled that after a time, but the Welsh officials asked people to stop leaving socks, which were a symbol of Doby's friendship with Harry.
I repeat: Welsh officials asked people to stop leaving socks, which were a symbol of Doby's friendship with Harry.
In the end, Ludlam and Co. arranged to reroute the electrical line so as to avoid the fake grave of an elf who never lived so that people in England and Ireland could have electricity so that people wouldn't have to read these novels by candlelight.
Now where did Dobby leave my socks?
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