Published on
10/08/2026 - 9:34 GMT+2
To (mis)crib from Professor McGonagall's rallying cry: "Piertotum Locomotor! Dobby's grave is threatened!"
A £430 million (€502m) over-and-undersea cable project between Britain and Ireland has been rerouted after Harry Potter fans discovered the original plan would have disturbed a shrine to the fictional character Dobby the House Elf.
The 190km-Greenlink high-voltage cable, to supply energy from Britain to Ireland, was supposed to be laid between County Wexford in Ireland and Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It's on that beach where Dobby's death scene in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part One (2010) was filmed.
