Harry Potter fans get £430m power link between UK, Ireland rerouted to save Dobby’s ‘grave’

Harry Potter fans reroute £430m power link between UK, Ireland. Harry Potter fans have successfully forced a change in the route of a £430 million power link between the UK and Ireland after raising concerns that the project could disturb the fictional memorial of beloved house-elf Dobby at a Welsh beach.The Greenlink interconnector, a 125-mile undersea cable linking Ireland’s County Wexford with Freshwater West in Wales, was initially planned to pass through the spot where Dobby’s death was filmed for the Harry Potter films.However, the project’s route was later altered following a series of complaints from fans.Project manager Simon Ludlam said his firm received “hundreds of calls” following a BBC interview revealed where the cable was expected to come ashore. A colleague told him that the planned route would go “straight through Dobby’s grave”.Ludlam, who admitted he initially did not know who Dobby was, said he was puzzled by the reaction. “He’s a fictitious character in a fictitious book, the whole thing is fictitious,” he recalled telling a colleague.However, after being told the issue was “very, very serious”, planners were asked to find an alternative route that would avoid...