website and canon = Caution

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 98915

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "antoshachekhonte"
<antoshachekhonte at y...> wrote:
> > <drjuliehoward at y...> wrote:
> > > Is JKR's new website considered canon, given that the other
> > > books, chocolate frog cards, etc., are?
> > > 
> > > Julie
> > 
> > bboy_mn:
> > 
> > JKR's website isn't canon; it's canonish.
> > 
> > We have to be careful not to take everything as absolutely 
> > literal. JKR, like all people when they comminicate, makes 
> > generalization, snide comment, uses sarcasm, makes mild and 
> > sometimes subtly humorous comments, etc....
> > 
> > ...edited...
> > 
> > So, when tempered with restrianed enthusiasm, common sense, and
> > applied intellect; yes, I think it can be taken as canon.
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > 
> > bboy_mn
> 
> 
> Antosha: 
> 
> I grant your point absolutely. Some of the language on the site is 
> less than purely declarative; indeed, some of it is intentionally 
> so.
> 
> Having granted that, the same could be said of the novels. They are
> rife with ambiguity, irony and puns. Does that make them canon-ish 
> too?
> 
> Antosha ;-)

bboy_mn:

Actually,... Yes. When we take some ambiguious irony, pun, bit of
humor, insignificant action, or general statement, and use it as the
foundation for some grand conspiracy, to determine who's in love with
who, or who is 'Ever So Evil', then it ceases to be canon, and becomes
'canon-ish'.

An overly active imagination and too much time on our hands is a
terrible (and terribly fun) thing to waste. ;)

Just a thought.

bboy_mn