Separating "fact" from "fiction" (was: Anti-movie sentiments (from HP4GU):

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Sam Brown" <find_sam at h...> wrote:
> There's a sort of mental divide in my head, which separates 
> Canon, Fanon and the Film. I've read some fan fiction, and it 
hasn't 
> really affected my perception of the actual books - Draco Malfoy 
is, 
> in the books, an obnoxious little snot, and I don't have a ship 
> preference, despite whatever H/Hr, H/G, R/Hr fanfics I've read. By 
> that reasoning, I think I'll still be able to hold on to my mental 
> pictures.  
> 

Sam, thanks for this.  I had begun to worry that I was alone in that 
camp...

I've read so much fanfic that I think in my head there's separate 
bins labeled "fanon" and "canon".  It isn't jarring for me to read 
canon at all and find that Draco is absolutely horrid, very little 
about Snape is sympathetic, Harry cannot dance (much less swing-
dance), there is no spelled-out and overt indication of my favorite 
ship, Ron has been nothing but a great best friend for Harry, and 
Hermione and Ginny are still very much innocent little girls becoming 
adolescents.  IMO--

Canon is what actually is.

Fanfic is what might be.

And the movie is the WB creative team's (and Chris Columbus') attempt 
to visualize a combination of both (while leaning most heavily 
towards the first category).

Each has its own place.

--Ebony AKA AngieJ