The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday voted unanimously to name a West Anchorage street Grimmauld Place, a name straight out of author J.K. Rowling’s popular Harry Potter fiction.
12-year-old Janna Wilcox holds her copy of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which was the inspiration for the new street name, Grimmauld Place.
The Anchorage Assembly granted her wish, voting unanimously to call the road Grimmauld Place — the same street where Harry Potter’s godfather, Sirius Black, resides, in the popular fiction books by J.K. Rowling. The city received three valid name suggestions — Grimmauld, Lavonne and Effie Place — and five property owners voted on the names, resulting in a tie between Grimmauld and Lavonne, according to city officials.
“It is a difficult one, because the process was followed, and basically a minority of people who supported this particular name had their name prevail, and not everybody likes that,” Brawley said. “There’s nothing wrong with the name. We actually think it’s very unique and very nice to have a nice unique name, especially when a lot of them try to reuse very Alaskan words and street names around town,” Wilson said.
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