Making up our own book

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 114075

Sylvia wrote:
> The long wait for Book Six seems to be having an extraordinary 
effect 
> on posters.  An awful lot of recent posts seem to becoming wilder 
and 
> wilder in speculating not about future story lines but about past 
> ones.
There seems to be a great deal on the lines of "Maybe Snape did 
something awful to Sirius to provoke him" - well beyond canon and 
unproveable anyway.

Hannah now: But surely wild speculation is all part of the fun?  
Suggesting really out-there theories that could just possibly be 
true can lead to interesting discussions and new insight into what 
could really be going on.  And lets admit, we've discussed all of 
the obvious (and less than obvious) things many times.  As for 
speculation about past events, I think the past is vital to the 
future plot of the series.  Events like the prank, although they 
happened in the past, will be expanded upon in the future and have a 
bearing on future events. 

Surely the whole point of a group like this one is to discuss things 
like 'maybe Snape did something awful to Sirius to provoke him'?  I 
don't see that it's beyond canon, if it's supported by canon 
evidence (such as Snape's character, the fact Sirius wasn't expelled 
etc.).  And at the end of the day, it's all unproveable until book 
six, or even seven comes out, or JKR says something unequivocal on 
the subject.  If we stuck to what was proveable, what would we find 
to discuss?

Hannah