London, England (Glossy News) – Paramedics arrived at London King’s Cross Railway Station on September 1st at 11:13 a.m. after a teenage boy of fourteen years cracked his scull in an attempt to get to platform 9¾ from the very popular Harry Potter books.
Devon Kinney and his mother, Debora Kinney were on their way to board a train to Manchester when Debora turned around to check the train schedules. “I had my back to him for a second, and then all the sudden I heard a huge bang, and I turned around to see Devon on the ground with his head bleeding profuse amounts of blood.”
“I just wanted to get to Hogwarts, so I ran as fast as I could into platform 10, and then I blacked out,” Kinney states.
Kinney was rushed to University College Hospital and was in surgery for nine hours to treat the cracked skull. The surgery went smoothly but he has damage to his brain that is irreversible.
Sadly, this is not the first time something like this has happened. Children all over the world are getting hurt in attempt to mimic wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling’s popular series.
In Germany, a 12 year old girl cracked three ribs, fractured her leg in 2 places and her arm in three places after attempting to fly by jumping off the roof of her house with a broomstick.
The police encourage parents to inform their children that Harry Potter is fictional and that they should not attempt to perform magic, fly, or fight the Dark Lord in order to prevent accidents like this in the future.