Canon

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 78100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> 
>   From: Charlie Moody 
> 
>   > 
>   Removing the religious overlay, we arrive at something like this:
>   "a collection of books accepted as authoritative, or any text 
included
>   in that collection".
> 
>   Which tells me that HP canon is the published body of work by JKR
>   about HP & the Wizarding World - specifically, the 5 "HP &"  books
>   & the two 'school books', plus such as she may add in the future.
> 
>   You include public utterances of JKR in canon;  I do not.  Any
>   interview with JKR is not her authoritative work, but the work of 
the
>   interviewer - and JKR's wicked characterisation of Rita Skeeter
>   shows directly, I think, how she feels about that line of work.  
>   <<snip>>
>   Charlie
> 

Interestingly as an aside, much of what was in the phenomenal output 
of letters from Tolkien is accepted as canon by readers and analysts. 
Maybe this is because so much of his "back story" was outlined in 
letters and appendices. I hope the suggestion isn't that Jo Rowling 
is peppering her interviews etc. with scarlet coloured fish to create 
havoc amongst those trying to first guess her?
:-)