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There's a fake news site claiming a Harry Potter spin-off is filming in Waterford
REMEMBER LAST WEEK, when “KY12 News” reported that Leonardo DiCaprio fancies half the county of Limerick?
Well, that was a completely fake story, put out by one of those websites that caters viral content to specific geographic locations.
And now a similar website is saying that a Harry Potter spin-off is filming in Waterford and they need extras
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Citing, eh, “multiple news reports”, the article says:
The website is called Channel16News, and much like the KY12 counterpart, publishes completely made up stuff targeted to small towns/cities around the world.
Here’s the same article about the Harry Potter sequel – only this time it’s set in Waco, Texas
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And here, Saskatoon, Canada as well
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Usually this wouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, but loads of Irish people are believing the story to be true on Facebook today – thinking they might have a shot at being an extra in the film:
So much so that JK Rowling has been asked to intervene
Most of the shares are coming from a page called “Ashwell-Lewis News”, which has no publicly-available content.
So, needless to say, there is no Harry Potter spin-off called Quidditch and it’s definitely not filming in Waterford.
Pack away the wizard costumes for now.
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fail of the day Not happening screens spin-off Waterford win/fail