If You Dig Just A Little

Here's a story from AFP: The car used in the Harry Potter films, a 1962 Ford Anglia with no engine, has been recovered.

The pale blue 1962 Ford Anglia, driven through the air by the boy wizard and sidekick Ron Weasley in the hugely successful Harry Potter films, was in storage on a film set in Cornwall, southeast England, when it was stolen last October.

Police were baffled as how it vanished from the high-security location without anyone noticing — particularly as it has no engine, the Daily Express said.

Fans feared the car was stolen to order by a dealer who planned to sell it on the black market, The Sun reported.

Now this is where a little digging comes in:

The tabloid said that a five-strong gang of New Age travellers came out of hiding and tried to sell the car earlier this week, claiming they had found it.

That led prospective buyers to a Cornish lock-up, but the car was missing its number plate — 7990 TD — so there was no deal.

Then the gang apparently panicked and whisked the car away to the mist-shrouded ruined 14th-century Carn Brae Castle in Cornwall.

Which kind of implies that the car was found in the ruins, or among the ruins or something.

But it was found in a parking lot near the castle. Which actually appears to have been converted into a restaurant. Sometimes you just have to dig a little to find this stuff. But hey, it sounds more dramatic the other way!