2026年8月10日 美国东部时间上午8:44 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
爱尔兰与英国之间耗资数百万美元的输电连接项目在施工时略微调整了路线，此前“哈利·波特”粉丝抱怨该基础设施会打扰该系列小说中虚构精灵多比的纪念地。
埃奇亚能源公司首席执行官西蒙·拉德勒姆在接受《能源革命》播客采访时表示，该公司最初计划在威尔士海岸的淡水滩铺设部分输电线路，并已获得相关主管部门的许可。
拉德勒姆称，他在接受BBC威尔士频道采访时并不清楚这个纪念地的意义，当时他解释说，高压海底和地下电力电缆系统将在海滩下方地下穿过沙丘，接入电网。
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该电视片段播出后，拉德勒姆表示公司接到了“数百个来自哈利·波特粉丝的来电”，同事们敦促他对这波反对声浪作出回应。
“有人告诉我，我们的线路会直接穿过多比的墓，”拉德勒姆回忆道，“我说，‘多比？谁是多比？’”他告诉播客主持人。
“我说，‘他只是虚构小说里的虚构角色，整件事都是虚构的，你们在说什么？’”
在得知投诉“非常、非常严重”后，拉德勒姆表示，公司联系了规划方，讨论如何调整电缆路线以避开多比的纪念地，最终线路改为“非常接近”青铜时代遗迹。
“我们避开了多比的墓，很多人都非常开心，项目现在已经推进，多比也该满意了，”拉德勒姆说道。
谈及大型基础设施项目规划时需要灵活变通，这位首席执行官补充道：“有时候，一个10岁小女孩的意见是对的。”
2022年，管理该海滩的威尔士国民信托环境官员要求粉丝不要再摆放袜子和其他物品，称此举会对当地野生动物造成危害。
Harry Potter fans divert undersea power cable to avoid Dobby’s memorial in Wales
August 10, 2026 8:44 AM EDT / CBS News
The construction of a multimillion-dollar electricity connection project between Ireland and the U.K. was slightly diverted after “Harry Potter” fans complained the infrastructure would disturb a memorial for Dobby, the fictional elf in the popular book series.
The CEO of Etchea Energy, Simon Ludlam, told the Energy Revolution podcast his company had initially planned to build part of the connection through Freshwater West, a beach on the coast of Wales, and had received permission from the relevant authorities.
Ludlam said that he was unaware of the meaning of the memorial when he gave an interview to BBC Wales and explained that the high-voltage subsea and underground power cable system would make landfall, underground below the beach, through dunes and into the electrical grid.
Painted stones left at a memorial in tribute to Dobby, a fictional elf from the “Harry Potter” series, at Freshwater West beach in Wales Matthew Horwood / Getty Images
After the segment aired on TV, the CEO said the company received “hundreds of calls” from “Harry Potter” fans, prompting his colleagues to urge him to respond to the backlash.
“Apparently we’re going to go straight through Dobby’s grave,” Ludlam recalls being told. “I said, ‘Dobby? Who’s Dobby?’” he told the podcast host.
“I said, ‘He’s a fictitious character in a fictitious book, the whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?’”
After being told the complaints were “very, very serious,” Ludlam said the firm went back to the planners and discussed how to divert the cable in order to avoid Dobby’s memorial, and instead ended up going “quite close” to Bronze Age remains.
“We avoided Dobby’s grave; a lot of people were very happy about that, the project’s now going, and Dobby’s happy,” Ludlam remarked.
Discussing the need to be flexible when planning major infrastructure projects, the CEO added that “sometimes, a 10-year-old girl is right.”
In 2022, environmental officials from the National Trust Cymru, the agency which manages the beach, asked fans to stop bringing socks and other items because they said it would be harmful to local wildlife.
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