[HPforGrownups] Re: Are The Schoolbooks Canon? (WAS The Night The Jobberknoll Screamed)

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 38937


--- cindysphynx <cindysphynx at comcast.net> wrote:
> Real-To:  "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at comcast.net>
> 
> Abigail wrote:
> 
> > Are the HP Schoolbooks canon?
> 
> Hmmm.  I was always pretty sure that they are canon.
>  There is no 
> question that they were written by JKR, after all,
> which is the 
> definition of canon.  
> 
> I'm not the final authority, though.  We'll have to
> get a ruling 
> from Lexicon Steve.

Steve has certainly incorporated references from the
Schoolbooks onto the Lexicon, which, IMHO, means that
he accepts them as canon.

> I wonder about one thing, though.  Has anyone ever
> found any way in 
> which the schoolbooks are consistent with the first
> four books?

They're consistent in at least 4 places:
1. The reference in FB to Acromantulas (giant spiders)
which notes that reports of a colony in scotland have
been "confirmed" by Harry Potter & Ron Weasley

2. The bit about Kappas - there's a "scribbled" note
that someone should tell snape that they're not native
to Japan (from PoA, when he said they were in subbing
for Lupin's class)

3. The reference to Moaning Myrtle having a crush on
Harry, also in FB

4. In QTTA, there's a scribbled reference to Ron
rooting for a lame team

The overarching inconsistancy is that books seem to be
checked out in the summertime - but that could be
explained by Owl Post.

The unknown factor is that the books were clearly
published for Muggles in 2001 - and the covernote is
signed by Albus Dumbledore, which seems to imply that
he was alive in 2001, well after Harry has finished
his 7th year. 

Well, we'll know eventually if *that* is a Flint.

Heidi Tandy
(who did all the above without opening a book, but who
knows that none of it is canon-inaccurate :) 



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