How a 12-year-old got an Anchorage street named after a Harry Potter location

When the city determined an unnamed street needed a name to better guide emergency services, it got Janna Wilcox thinking.

Twelve-year-old Janna Wilcox stands at the Anchorage Assembly chambers with a copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Wilcox was behind the effort to name an Anchorage street Grimmauld Place .

The previously unnamed West Anchorage street sits between West 29th and 31st avenues and Doris Street and Lois Drive. The street serves 10 lots, and the city determined that it needed a name to better guide emergency services. That got 12-year-old Janna Wilcox thinking. In the Harry Potter universe, Grimmauld Place is where Potter’s godfather Sirius Black lives, and where the young wizard occasionally stayed.

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