The Canon

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 60092

The Sergeant Majorette, torn (before she was a sergeant, when she was 
a minorette, she was a weird four-eyed kid who read way too much 
[even teachers said so] and there were no harrys or hermiones for her 
to identify with; no organized subculture of other weird kids to 
trade obsessions and fanfiction with), says:

Arthurian legend, eastern European history, obscure folklore: 
fascinating as all this stuff is (really - no sarcasm intended) I 
don't think much of it has a lot to do with JKR's process. If we are 
making predictions (we're up to Book VI, now, right?), we should 
begin with what we know of what she is before we speculate on what 
she knows.
She's British: No psychological mollycoddling. No angst. Nice people 
will die. Evil people will stay bad and live.
She doesn't care for fantasy as a literary genre: Minimal invention 
in the construction of the HP universe. No deus-ex-machina stuff.
She has the whole seven-book series mapped out: Plots will conclude.
She won't write any more HP (she hedges a bit by saying 'never say 
never', but...): There will be no 'canon' as to the direction the 
characters will take -- if they live.
One might say that the real JKR might be a bit of a let-down as a 
mythmaker. Unlike, say, an Anne Rice, JKR is a normal person, less 
eccentric and reclusive than most people I know.

Which is why the overwrought and convoluted analyses of the 
Potterverse are valid and enjoyable in their own right. I've started 
to collect my favorite metacanonical theories to organize into 
alternate Potterverses and...(well, I would if I didn't have to stop 
right now and do what I should have been doing while I was doing 
this. Gosh darn that adult-onset ADD!)

JDR (help me...)