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Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.
But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn't run through it.
In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”.
The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.
Priorities are in order!
This is fucking pathetic
At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds
Tasteless transphobic nerds.
This is so frustrating. My sister loves HP and refuses to discuss Rowling. While still buying merch that directly supports her.
If there was ever a reason to buy unlicensed knock-offs...
I love Harry Potter. I pirated every book and seed every movie.
You can still enjoy something without supporting her.
Talk to your sister about the economics of pirating. You can make your own merch.
Trust me, many (former) Harry Potter fans are incredibly disappointed and do not support the queen TERF.
a bunch of fucking nerds
Lol Harry Potter readers being nerdy kids may have been true in the late 90s or early 00s. Most fans of the movies are normies.
It wasn’t even true then. Harry Potter was the flagship of the Scholastic book fair at the time along with books like Animorphs.
Have you read Animorphs? Those books were bought entirely by people judging them based on their cover. They have kids on them turning into a different animal on each. That just looked cool. If I had had the money for it, I too would have collected them, entirely based on the animals on the cover (I'll take the dog, the hawk, and the dolphin, thanks). 99% of kids who bought them would have done so for the exact same reason.
The actual story is some of the least kid-friendly I've ever heard. It's filled with body horror, cosmic horror, guerilla warfare and espionage with child soldiers, children losing their bodies, children losing their minds through torture, kids having existential crises after witnessing and participating horrific acts of war, countless murders of loved ones, planet scale genocide, etc. It's not for normies. I don't know anyone personally that has actually read the whole series, including myself. I have watched a guy on YouTube go over the plot in summary and... holy fuck. Those books are darker than anything I've read as an adult.
Stop the nerd on nerd hate - if you're posting on Lemmy the chance that you are also a nerd is pretty damn high.
Jesus Christ, they're not even good children's books
It's, of course, a matter of taste whether or not you find them good. But let's not pretend that we're not talking about one of he most popular, best-selling children's book series of all time that spawned a 30+ billion dollar franchise of movies, merch, games, and a theme park. Plenty of people found them plenty good enough to generate that big of a financial success.
hey now, lets not try to get people to realize that other people's opinions matter.
Plus the Author is a bigot.
They are quite shit. They are easy reads, and it gets children to read, that's pretty good. But damn, shit makes no sense, and harry potter adults are pretty damn weird.
I like the books, hate the writer
Okay yeah Harry Potter fans need to fucking stop. Just fucking stop. Read a book that isn't fucking shit.
y'all i was a mega harry potter fan growing up and even i think this was pathetic; READ ANOTHER BOOK
I'm starting to think there's a correlation between cults and the inability to read more than one book...
Although in saying that, most Christians I've met haven't actually read their book so that theory falls through pretty quickly. Nevermind!
I don't give a fuck about HP Whatshercunt, but I do love this story. Because it shows that collectively we have more power then these companies. If we could get our shit together and stop fighting each other we could bully them into litterally anything we want because THERE ARE MORE OF US. It's so dumb that we have let a tiny group of people convince us, the larger group that massively outnumbers them, they have all the power in the relationship.
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Just another story about people making the real world a little worse because they're disconnected from reality.
Do you also applaud antivaxxers get together and bully people? Same thing isn't it? People disconnected from reality bullying people.
Sorry, but people disconnected from reality aren't capable of making any improvement in the world.
What I don't get is, how did Dobby get so much love in the Harry Potter fandom while Jar-Jar Binks in Star Wars got so much hate? They were both insufferably annoying characters.
I get that Dobby has fans; what I don't get is why the same wasn't extended to Jar-Jar.
Jar-Jar didn't die, I guess, but I feel like even if he did, fans would glaze him over decades later. They'd say "good riddance" and that would be that.
Dobby was a pitiful creature enslaved by a bad guy who dies saving the main characters
Jar Jar was a stupid alien added to the prequel for comedic relief
Jar Jar was a stupid alien added to the prequel for comedic relief
Jar Jar was the big bad until they dialed up the obfuscating stupidity too high and the backlash made George Lucas chicken out.
Darth Jar Jar has always been canon and nothing will convince me otherwise
I don't really buy Darth Jar Jar, but I can see him being an exiled Jedi. None of his "accidents" worked against the goals of the heroes and he was always where he needed to be. He felt like the drunken fool who would be revealed to a kungfu master by the end. Gin's dismissive lines to him in episode 1 was setting up for something. The whole prequel trilogy was about the corruption of the Jedi and Jar Jar might have been exile or left because of his opposition to it.
I think one major difference is that Dobby is a character that was introduced quite early in the main run of the books/movies, where as Jar Jar was kind of just shoe-horned into an already bad prequel.
But I don't want to imagine a world were Jar Jar was part of the OT.
This is actually a win. The original site was going through an ecological sensitive area. People fought to protect the "grave" of a fictional character but accidentally protected a delicate ecology. That is more important than protecting the dead, real or not.
Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.
Gotta love that a fictional character created by a transphobe carries more weight and concern than the further destruction of our biosphere.
"How did Donald Trump win in the US? How could so many people be so stupid and out of touch with reality?"
Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
I was dragged along to see this by my kids. Having never seen the movies or read the book, I was expecting something substantially more than the pile of rocks with some old socks.
wow this sucks
Yikes. Fuck these dumbasses.
probably not true, fortunately: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1vjde6y/rumours_speculation_questions_and_reaction/p2t4b8m/
It kind of cute. Even in modern times we create new sacred spaces, although a bit different than we were used to.
I can imagine some future archeologists wondering who this "Dobby" was that his grave was an importat site of pilgrimage. Maybe concluding it wasn't actually a person but a local minor deity.
"who was this dobby? and how did he manage to bury himself in solid cement?"
Cult behavior.
Who the fuck cares about Dobby's grave!
