FF & Neville's Memory

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No: HPFGUIDX 12820

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
<snip>
I do agree that we should all be mindful to
> indicate when we're stating something from canon, from a fanfic or
> something that is a theory/opinion (whether based on canon or FF).
> :--)  There are some members, for example, who have consistently
> expressed *opinions* as *facts* -- this can be very confusing &
> problematic.  All it takes is simply saying "I believe" or "IMO" or
> something of that nature to indicate that something you're 
proposing is
> merely an opinion.

I completely agree about this. I just meant that due to the nature of 
fanfiction, some of it is so good (mostly really good fanfic causes 
fanon bleed. It contains some sort of emotional perceived truth about 
the characters that resonates with the readers), often the most 
confusing statements come from fanon, although this is not always the 
case. 

> 
> > If the fanfic is contradicted by books five, six and seven, 
(which if
> > obviously will be),
> 
> Not necessarily 100% of *all* portions/aspects of *all* fanfics 
will be
> contradicted by the last 3 books of canon.  I fully expect that 
some of
> our talented fanfic authors might be prescient -- at least in *some*
> respects.
> 
> 

Argh. Meant to say something else here. Obviously not all fanfic can 
be contradictory, and some authors will be going in the same 
direction JKR is. Some wise person online once observed to me that 
the best fanfic is done off of "flawed" source material. HP is 
currently in an imperfect state simply because JKR isn't done yet, 
and thus there are lots of plot threads still going, characters to be 
discussed, etc, which provide fertile ground for ficcing. Often JKR 
has made it pretty clear, from the narration, that she will be 
continuing some plot point or another, and fanfic authors often take 
this as a starting point. Because they are second guessing the 
author, there is a chance that they will be contradicted unless they 
happen to be on the very same wavelength as JKR. 

Example 1:  shipping discussion. Many people have picked up the idea, 
rightly or wrongly, that JKR is setting up romance within the 
triangle in some way, which I remain agnostic upon. Either JKR will 
disappoint them by not putting romance in there, or "contradict" one 
of the genres of fanfic out there by making one of the romances 
canon. Example 2:  We've all been (or at least the clan of fans who 
are extremely intrigued by Snape) been whacking our heads against the 
wall trying to figure out [whole list of things follows, mercifully 
cut to save bandwith] of which many conjectures are plausible 
speculation. Some of our pet theories will or will not be confirmed 
in book five. Etc. 

Charmian, verbosely