Potteromans of the world have got one more "holy place" which is already popular. You can see the grave of the existing Harry Potter, who has died 68 years ago, on a cemetery of the small Israeli town of Ramla.
Potteromans of the world have got one more "relic" which is already popular. You can see the grave of the real Harry Potter, who has died 68 years ago, on a cemetery of the Israeli small town of Ramla.Harry, buried on the land of Israel is not the prototype of the world famous boy with a scar on his forehead; it is just a coincidence, which, nevertheless, extremely pleases all the admirers of the works of Joanne Rowling. Potter, who lies at the military cemetery, - is a 19-year-10 months-old British soldier. As the inscription on his gravestone says, he was killed during the performance of the task in Hebron in 1939.Real Harry Potter was a soldier of King George VI; he served in the First Worcester battalion, which was sent to Palestine to settle the Arabic-Jewish conflict. His regiment had a difficult task, and young Harry Potter's life stopped suddenly on July, 22nd, 1939 during a firefight in the suburb of Hebron on the western bank of the Jordan River.In all, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 20 Harry Potters were deceased worldwide. You can find graves with such a name both in sandy dunes of Libya, and in the center of Europe. Only the representatives of the Commission knew about fallen soldiers until recently, but a couple of years ago a young Israeli photographer, who took pictures at cemeteries, has put a photo in the Internet. After that his site attracted the attention of many mythical Potter admirers, and since then this modest military cemetery in Ramla experiences record inflow of visitors. Unlike the other Potter's burial places, the grave of the 19-years namesake of the young magician became known; it left behind by popularity even the place of last rest of the father of the nation Ben Gurion or Itshaka Rabin, fallen from a shot of a Jew extremist.As long as the quantity of visitors only increased, it was necessary to widen the narrow path leading to the gravestone of Potter, and to organize a parking place aside from the entrance. The new sight became so popular, that the city administration of Ramla has brought this English military cemetery in the list of the objects recommended for visiting by tourists, alongside with two towers of the crusaders built during the epoch of domination of the Ottoman Empire.
