FF: Canon and fanon

[Alex Corvus]

No: HPFGUIDX 12435

Amanda wrote:

>Is there an extant term--it can't be "canon," since it's not in the
> books, can it?--for details that JKR has supplied, which are therefore
> Right, as distinguished from non-book material from other sources?

I've always used "apocrypha."

>Stuff that she's said on online chats and in interviews is just as firm >as
the books, since it's so immediately in print, saved in text versions, >etc.
She'd have to do the same sort of justification to mollify us fans >if she
altered some position made outside the books, as she would if she >altered
something inside them.

I'm curious - is this really how people feel? To me, if it's not in the book,
it just doesn't count. Sure, it's interesting to get some extra insight from
JKR, but what she says in chats and interviews and whatnot doesn't hold any
sort of immutability in my mind. Unless and until it appears in canon, in the
actual books, it's not set in stone. As long as what goes in the book is
supported by what's already in the books, she's not going to have to convince
me of anything, even if it contradicts something she's said outside of the
books. I've never given her statements outside of the book the same weight as
canon.

Alexa

"'Bollocks!' cried Hermione. 'I'd be running this show if those slags in
marketing weren't convinced girls will read books about boys but boys won't
read books about girls!'"
- Sydney, Dykes To Watch Out For


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