website and canon = Caution and Delight

[fanofminerva]

No: HPFGUIDX 98979

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> 
wrote:
> >drjuliehoward wrote:
> > Is JKR's new website considered canon, given that the other
> > books, chocolate frog cards, etc., are?
> 
> 
> Mandy here:
> I've been reading the whole thread on this and what we all have to 
> remember is:
> 
> REDHERINGS!!
> 
> All in the name of fun, of course.
> 
> But don't forget Jo loves to play with us. She wants to keep us 
> guessing and in doing so, is going to love feeding us tidbits that 
> are as likely to lead us down the wrong path as the right one.  
Just 
> because she wants to debunk some rumors put out there by others, 
it 
> may not mean that she isn't going to start some of her own.
> 
> Didn't she say somewhere that one of her favorite authors was 
Agather 
> Christie? 
> 
> I think the site is definitely canon, but is also going to be full 
of 
> trapdoors, red hearings, maguffins and all manner or wonderful 
> tricks. I can't wait.
> 
> Way to go, Jo!

My thoughts exactly!  Some of what she said was just too tongue-in-
cheek.  I do have a question about the little secrets.  I do not 
have a microphone on my computer, so I have not been able to try 
this.  Has anyone taken the portkey to the "Do Not Disturb" door and 
tried any of the phrases (e.g., "Sherbert Lemon") used to access 
Dumbledore's office?