Canon? If she said it... / creatures or what?

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 12439

Hey :)

I consider things JKR says in interviews to be canon. Trouble is, 
when she says things like "Good catch!" about someone noticing Mrs. 
Figg mentioned or "Of course!" when she places someone in Gryffindor, 
it just makes us speculate and wonder all the more! 

Along these lines, is there somewhere where all those chats are 
available in transcript form? I recently told someone that no, 
Harry's middle name has never been given, only to have them show me 
the transcript of the Scholastic interview where it WAS given, plain 
as day. I'd like to have those transcripts printed out and available 
to me. 

Then, is there an URL for each of these transcripts? I'd like to 
start crediting Lexicon information with hyperlinks to those 
references. You have no idea how many emails I get asking me how I 
know that Lily's maiden name was Evans. (That and "When will book 5 
come out?")

On another note, I've been working on the "creatures" section of the 
Lexicon lately and I realize that it's not as easy as it seems to 
classify all these various entities. How about some suggestions? We 
have normal animals, normal animals that have some sort of powers, 
intelligent species that aren't human, intelligent species that are 
PART-human (eg Centaurs) and so on and on and on. Anyone care to 
suggest a nice set of, say, four or five categories that I can use 
that will sort them all out? One category would be "Dark Creatures," 
certainly. But what else?

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
which has more holes in it than I realize, but I'm working on it
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon