Lovers of potters around the world found one more “cult object”, which is already very popular. It is possible to see the grave of the real Harry Potter, who died 68 years ago, in the cemetery of the Israeli city of Ramleh.
Harry, buried in Israeli soil, is not a prototype of the world-famous boy with a scar on his forehead; this is just a coincidence, which, however, makes all fans of Joanne Rowling’s creative work extremely happy. Potter buried in the war cemetery is a young soldier, who died at the age of 19 years and 10 months. According to the inscription on the tombstone, he died on a mission in Hebron in 1939.
The real Harry Potter, who served in the first Woostershire battalion that was sent to Palestine to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict, was a soldier of King George VI. The regiment had a difficult mission and young Harry Potter’s life ended on July 22, 1939 in the course of a skirmish in the suburb of Hebron on the west shore of the Jordan River.
According to data from the British Commonwealth War Burial Places Commission, a total of 20 Harry Potter fell in battles around the world. Tombs with that name exist both in the snowdrifts of Libya and in central Europe. Until recently only Commission representatives knew of dead soldiers, but a few years ago a young Israeli photograph, who had been taking photographs in cemeteries, posted a photo on the Internet. After that, great attention was paid to his site from many mythical Potter admirers, and ever since, the modest war cemetery in Ramleh has experienced an unprecedented flow of visitors. Compared to the burial sites of other Potters, exactly the 19-year-old namesake of the young wizard 5 @ C became famous, leaving behind in popularity even the eternal remnant of the nation’s father Ben Gurion or Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated. by the bullet of a Jewish extremist.
As the number of visitors only increased over time, the narrow path, which goes to Potter’s grave, was widened and a parking lot was arranged to one side of the entrance. The new landmark became so popular that the Ramleh mayor’s office listed this English war cemetery on the list of recommended objects for sightseeing along with two crusader towers, which were built in the era of Empire supremacy. Ottoman.
