FF: Canon, fanon, apocrypha

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 12489

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a... wrote:
> In which category are those of you who are "canon purists" going to 
> put things like the upcoming JKR books Quidditch through the ages 
and 
> Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them - 
> And what about the video games (including the spells one) which is 
> coming out later this year, where JKR has approved all 
> the "fact"things in there?
> Will those become Canon?

I don't want to give the impression that I dictate "canon." I simply 
dictate what I put into the Lexicon, and what I put in the Lexicon is 
what I personally consider canon. 

I include anything that has come directly from JKR to be canon. 
By "directly" I mean that she wrote it, as in wrote the book, or 
stated it personally. The "approved" stuff I will take under 
consideration once I see it, but I don't promise to use it. I don't 
do that because I feel that they are any less valid--I'd have to see 
it to make that determination. It's just that I can't imagine being 
able to find the time to include all the information that will be in 
those Electronic Arts titles. I'd probably have to play the whole 
thing through taking notes, and I am pretty sure I won't have time to 
do that. So I may very well just stick with the book information.

With that in mind: FB and QTA being written by JKR herself, therefore 
they are, as far as the Lexicon goes, as canon as anything else and I 
can't WAIT to get my hot little hands on them! That's liable to be a 
ton o' work, but what fun...

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
sorta canonish...well, *I* like it, anyway...
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon