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.

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.

This is fucking pathetic

At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds

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

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.

Yikes. Fuck these dumbasses.