Canon vs. pseudo-canon (was: What is Canon?)

[Dan Delaney]

No: HPFGUIDX 55910

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Amy Z wrote:
> I suppose we could have two varieties: "J. K. Rowling canon" (words
> she wrote/spoke) and "Harry Potter canon" (anything at all having to
> do with Harry Potter)

Taking our lead from Biblical scholarship, we could refer to anything 
J.K. Rowling writes (or writings she has explicitly approved) about 
Harry Potter as CANONICAL and anything that other people write about 
Harry Potter as PSEUDO-CANONICAL. Thus, the (soon to be) five Potter 
books, and the others that Rowlings has written (Quidditch Through the 
Ages, et. al.) would be the CANON, and fan-fiction and the movies, and 
maybe even the merchandise and video games, would be the PSEUDO-CANON.

(And please, don't spell it "cannon" ;o)

--Dan