[HPforGrownups] Canon

[Charlie Moody]

No: HPFGUIDX 78160

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 06:41  AM, The Crashing Boar wrote:

>
>   Me (Charlie):
>  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.

Then Dawn:
>   Actually, I agree with you.  Personally, I rarely take interviews 
> into
> account when mulling over theories, and wouldn't consider them
> canon, but commentary.  However, I've noticed a lot of people on
> this list consider anything apparently written or said by JKR to be
> 'canon', which is why I put it into a message designed to be a friendly
> shove in the right direction, and so that reading those posts might
> make more sense.
>
> Dawn (who would have probably jumped on her reply if she hadn't
> made it in the first place :))

Then me again (Charlie):
Dawn, I had no intent to land on your post, but on reflecting, I guess I
*did*.   Would it surprise you to know that I worried over how that 
first
line (above) would come across before I posted?  Maybe it was the
late hour, but I just couldn't work out how to word it better.  What I 
would
have said today is more like:   "The definition you give includes...."
I don't know if that would have made it better, but please know that I
was just reflecting on the issue, not chasing you around about anything.

Thing was, your post got me thinking, and that set me to pawing thru the
archives, and when I came back to your post to respond, your definition
seemed to explicitly include JKR extemporaneae, and I just wanted to
make a case for the stricter definition.

My 'direct' tone aside, in a high-traffic list like this (*are* there 
any high traffic
lists like this one?), keeping things going means keeping things
focused, and agreement on what is canon is crucial, 'cause that IS the
focus.
--
Charlie, who wants so badly to make a point sometimes, that he loses
what grace he has....