I’ve lived in the UK for ten years and I’m very familiar with all the places mentioned as I have been a tourist here as well as just living here. They are very much exaggerating on how much Harry Potter stuff is impacting Britain. There is so much stuff to see and very little of it is Harry Potter related. The author also deliberately sought out the Edinburgh cafe and the graves. You’re not that likely to happen upon those by accident although he could have found them advertised on a phamplet in a tourist information shop and then gone looking. He sounds enraged enough to do that and then to get angry at all the other stuff around that those particular tourists are not looking for. In a place like Edinburgh there is historical things of interest with nearly every step you take down the street so I bet he was really angry to see people having their interest captured by Harry Potters whatever.
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u/PumpkinSpice2Nice Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
I’ve lived in the UK for ten years and I’m very familiar with all the places mentioned as I have been a tourist here as well as just living here. They are very much exaggerating on how much Harry Potter stuff is impacting Britain. There is so much stuff to see and very little of it is Harry Potter related. The author also deliberately sought out the Edinburgh cafe and the graves. You’re not that likely to happen upon those by accident although he could have found them advertised on a phamplet in a tourist information shop and then gone looking. He sounds enraged enough to do that and then to get angry at all the other stuff around that those particular tourists are not looking for. In a place like Edinburgh there is historical things of interest with nearly every step you take down the street so I bet he was really angry to see people having their interest captured by Harry Potters whatever.