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Harry Potter fans get €500m Ireland-Wales power cable rerouted

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 41m ago
28 distinct posts / 48h, matching Potter 25 Harry 23 Ireland 14 Wales 4
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58m ago Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave ×3 +1.5
1h ago Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave Discussion ×3 +1.0
1h ago Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave comments · posted on 2026.08.10 at 20:43:06 (c=0, p=4) ×3 +0.5
1h ago Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... ×2 +1.0
1h ago "Harry Potter" fans divert undersea power cable to avoid Dobby's memorial in Wales ×3 +2.0
1h ago 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 forc… ×3 +1.5
2h ago A multimillion-pound power link between the UK and Ireland was moved very close to the real Bronze Age human burial remains to avoid Dobby's grave. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans petitioned for the… ×3 +1.5
2h ago Harry Potter fans force diversion of cable to protect 'Dobby's 'grave': The Greenlink high-voltage cable, a 190km over-and-undersea project connecting County Wexford in Ireland to Freshwater West b… ×4 +2.0
6h ago Harry Potter not only has a brand new, high profile show coming out later this year, its fans just had an energy project rerouted to avoid violating Dobby's "grave." Just admit you have no ethics b… ×2 -6.5
6h ago Harry Potter fans succeeded in getting a new £430m ($580m) power line rerouted because it originally ran over the “grave” of Dobby, a late house elf. Muggles built a shrine to the wizard’s diminuti… ×3 +3.0
6h ago Well then Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave www.bbc.com/news/article... ×3 +1.5
7h ago Harry Potter fans have forced a £430m energy project to divert plans for a giant power line away from a Welsh beach in order to protect the resting place of house elf Dobby. ×2 +2.0
7h ago 'Harry Potter fans have forced a new multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland to be relocated after complaining it would desecrate the “grave” of Dobby, a fictional elf.' www.theg… ×3 +2.0
8h ago "Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’" is such a wild headline to show up in my feed. ×2 +4.0
8h ago A multimillion-dollar power link between the United Kingdom and Ireland has been diverted after distraught “Harry Potter” fans pointed out that its planned route would cut through a beach memorial … ×3 +2.0
8h ago What the actual fudge? Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ×3 -1.5
8h ago A beach in Wales is the site of one of one of the saddest moments of the “Harry Potter” movie series, in which Dobby, the house elf, dies. When the spot was threatened by plans to run a large elect… ×3 +1.5
8h ago Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on… ×3 +0.5
9h ago Harry Potter fans caused a €500,000,000 UK interconnector project to be rerouted. The cable formerly went straight through the ‘grave’ of Dobby, on the beach where the fictional elf dies. ×2 +1.5
10h ago Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ - The Guardian apple.news/AHkRPBBt_SvC... ×2 +2.0
11h ago Clear priorities: Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’: www.theguardian.com/environment/... ×2 -0.5
11h ago Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... What a time to be alive. ×2 +2.5
11h ago Harry Potter fans have forced a $500 million energy project to move after its route crossed Dobby's grave It was changed after "hundreds" of calls about the plans ×2 -2.0
7h ago 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. … -2.5
8h ago Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ - "In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”. Clearly, c… -2.5
5h ago I recently visited the Ardnacrusha hydro power plant on the Shannon. This 9MW plant kick started the electric grid in Ireland in the 1920s and was for a time the only grid connected plant in the co… +4.0
8h ago the fact that it’s also specifically a power grid connection for Ireland is just astounding +4.0
9h ago “Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach.” This is disappointing. Looks like I’ll need to desecrate Dobby’s gr… -3.5

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T3 Harry Potter fans get €500m Ireland-Wales power cable rerouted power_grid_infrastructure q102.ie surprising, whimsical, controversial
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