FF: Canon and fanon

[absinthe at mad.scientist.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 12437

 Alex Corvus  wrote:
> Amanda wrote:
> >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.

I agree with you, Alexa. If it ain't there, it ain't there. Rowling 
could change her mind about including certain things or she could 
alter things completely. 

:-)Milz