http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/review/film/driver_s_tall_tale_casts_a_harry_potter_spell_on_tourists_1_1963271
Scotland on Sunday
13 November 2011
Driver’s tall tale casts a Harry Potter spell on tourists
By Shân Ross
IT PROMISES to be a magical experience that transports tourists into the mind of Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Thousands of visitors taken to a garden centre on the edge of Edinburgh are being told that it provided the name for one of the most popular characters in Rowling’s mega-selling set of Potter novels.
But Scotland on Sunday can reveal that what has become an urban legend now being publicised by a number of tour companies -- that Dobby the House Elf was named after Dobbies the business -- was made up by an Edinburgh bus driver and guide. [...]
Scotland on Sunday
13 November 2011
Driver’s tall tale casts a Harry Potter spell on tourists
By Shân Ross
IT PROMISES to be a magical experience that transports tourists into the mind of Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Thousands of visitors taken to a garden centre on the edge of Edinburgh are being told that it provided the name for one of the most popular characters in Rowling’s mega-selling set of Potter novels.
But Scotland on Sunday can reveal that what has become an urban legend now being publicised by a number of tour companies -- that Dobby the House Elf was named after Dobbies the business -- was made up by an Edinburgh bus driver and guide. [...]
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