a young female poses for a photograph successful a buildingTwelve-year-old Janna Wilcox stands astatine nan Anchorage Assembly chambers pinch a transcript of Harry Potter and nan Chamber of Secrets, Wilcox was down nan effort to sanction an Anchorage thoroughfare Grimmauld Place. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)

A thoroughfare successful Anchorage now shares nan aforesaid sanction arsenic 1 from nan magical, fictional world of Harry Potter.

The antecedently unnamed West Anchorage thoroughfare sits betwixt West 29th and 31st avenues and Doris Street and Lois Drive. The thoroughfare serves 10 tons and nan metropolis wished that it needed a sanction to amended guideline emergency services. That sewage 12-year-old Janna Wilcox thinking. 

“When we sewage nan missive that nan thoroughfare was going to beryllium renamed, I’m a immense Harry Potter nerd, truthful I was like, ‘What tin I sanction this that’ll beryllium for illustration Harry Potter?’” Wilcox said astatine Tuesday night’s Assembly meeting. “And I thought, Grimmauld Place.”

In nan Harry Potter universe, Grimmauld Place is wherever Potter’s godfather Sirius Black lives, and wherever nan young wizard occasionally stayed. 

Wilcox said she sent her neighbors a missive pinch her suggestion, on pinch immoderate brownies. She said nan ballot was adjacent among spot owners and she was pleased that her sanction was approved by nan mayor. 

“I was really happy erstwhile we sewage nan executive bid and that Grimmauld Place had won successful a coin toss,” Wilcox said.

Anchorage Assembly members for illustration Karen Bronga applauded Wilcox for engaging successful nan nationalist process. 

“I americium really pleased pinch your outreach and coming up and speaking,” Bronga said. “I deliberation you are a agleam ray successful organization activism, and support it up.”

The Assembly unanimously approved naming nan thoroughfare Grimmauld Place.

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