What is Canon?

[Louise E]

No: HPFGUIDX 55504

>From: "graniteworks at sbcglobal.net" <graniteworks at sbcglobal.net>
>
>I keep seeing everyone refer to "canon". What is it?? I don't
>understand the connection. Please Explain?? Also why does everyone
>refer to the first book as Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone??
>As far as my knowledge goes in reading the book, it is called Harry
>Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
>

Hi, I've just joined so I've just finished reading the Humungus Big File (an 
understatement!) and as far as I'm aware "canon" is the text of the books, 
and basically anything JKR has written or mentioned in an interview, for 
example.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the UK title for the first book, 
while the US version is entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but 
both titles refer to the same book.

Lou

She is the cloaked woman in mourning, but she is not Despair, even though 
Grief is her domain; tears flow from her ceaselessly and her house looks out 
upon the Walls of the Night.  Instead she is Pity and Suffering that brings 
wisdom and endurance beyond hope; from the waters of her tears much is born 
that is unlooked for, yet it is often that which sustains life.


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