"Could Dobby's grave be moved?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 04 May 2022 12:33 p.m. PST |
He is one of the most beloved characters in Harry Potter books and films, but could the "resting place" of Dobby the House Elf be removed?A grave paying tribute to Dobby sits above Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, where the character's death was filmed. Now, a survey commissioned by National Trust has asked for opinions on whether the grave should stay or go… BBC: link |
| Greylegion | 05 May 2022 2:10 a.m. PST |
People get reinterred every so often. Why not a fictional character? |
 Parzival  | 05 May 2022 6:34 a.m. PST |
A thousand years from now future archaeologists will conclude that our era was completely nuts. |
| Stryderg | 05 May 2022 1:30 p.m. PST |
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 20thmaine | 09 May 2022 1:06 a.m. PST |
A thousand years from now future archaeologists will conclude that our era was completely nuts. Nah….they'll just say that the inscribed message stones are "markers of ritual beliefs" and that the placement at the empty grave represented "the completion of a pilgrimage to a place of high spiritual and cultural significance." They'll probably hypothesize that the "liminal location – between land and sea – represented a sacred place between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead." Which pretty much nails it. |
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