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

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 12449

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., sashibuya at h... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> > 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! <snip>
> 
> Re:  your other message. You're right that little things like "what 
> was Lily's maiden name" that JKR has said in interviews should be 
> considered canon, as she does have all those notebooks. But I do 
> agree that they should be marked as "non-textual canonical info" 
for 
> the practical considerations, i.e. people getting confused. There 
has 
> to be a name for this. 

I'll just credit them to the interview. I credit a book reference by 
book and chapter -- (CS3)for example. So the interviews just need 
abbreviations. (Sch) would stand for the Scholastic interview, for 
example. Then it could be hyperlinked to a separate page that 
describes the interview and links to the transcript on Scholastic's 
site. That's what I'll do, I just need to find the URL's for all the 
interviews. Anyone have those?


> 
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Another would be to separate creatures from mythology/folklore that 
> JKR has borrowed vs. those which she has made up herself, but that 
> would be lots of work, depending on how obscure she gets later. 

The current version of the beastiary notes which creatures JKR 
invented herself. That's not really all that hard to figure out if 
you've ever played Dungeons and Dragons... :)

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
complete with imperfect beastiary and uncredited interview references
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon