RAMLE Israel - spoiler alert: Harry Potter is dead.
Not the bespectacled adolescent wizard created by author J.K. Rowling.Cette died Potter was a British soldier killed in 1939, and his tomb is helping to attract tourists on the rural Israeli town of Ramle.
Ramleh does keep no figures on the number of tourists flocking to the grave in the British military cemetery of the city, but the tour guides and the town say the gravestone has become a popular attraction, largely for domestic travelers.
"There has no connection with the literature, we know about Harry Potter, but sells name, the name is negotiable, said Ron Peled, a guide to visit who said it has dozens of groups from the grave."
Pvt Harry Potter was born near Birmingham, England and joined the British army in 1938.According to Web site of the Regiment, he arrived at the British mandate Palestine later this year, where he was killed in combat with an armed 1939.Il gang is 18.Headstone said incorrectly, died 19 - a result of him have lied about his age so he can enlist.
One recent afternoon, a group of Israeli visitors, led by a tourist guide wielding microphone, scoured the well-maintained cemetery, searching for tombstone Potter.Une times they are among the tombs of 4,500, they huddled behind him and aligned photos.
"This is one type of pilgrimage for a man whose name is detache.Si you don't say that Harry Potter was buried here, no one comes here," said Josef Peretz, 76, Tel Aviv.
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