To the Extreme

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 164963

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ken Hutchinson" <klhutch at ...>
wrote:
>
 
> I disagree, you do not have to *start* from canon. Profitable
> speculations can run either way: start from knowns and extrapolate
> beyond them to a conclusion that can be tested (by reading DH), or
> start with a hunch (which DH will either confirm or make a mockery of)
> and work backwards to see if any knowns can be made to lead to it. But
> to be of any use in this case you do have to tie your speculations to
> canon in some way, at some point, or else all you have is a hunch.
> Even a raw hunch sometimes pans out, its just the way speculation works.
> 
 
colebiancardi:

You do need a basis in canon.  Otherwise, I could make up the most
thrilling theories and not have anything to do with the HP world, yet
call it a theory/speculation for HP.  That doesn't make sense.  You
can work backwards, if you have all the pieces up front.  One of my
speculations after reading HBP was to timeline & speculate that Snape
knew Regulus and that Regulus's death was the reason why Snape turned.

However, I used canon to make my point.  I couldn't have made my
speculation without the small references in OotP & HBP and certain
quotes from DD throughout the series.  But my point is that I didn't
go off half-cocked with a theory that didn't have some solid canon
behind it.

There is no canon on the Merope/Lily/Lily's mother theory.  Just wild
guessing to fit into some person's fanfic.

If that is all it took, I could write MYSELF as a major character in
the 7th book - after all, who needs canon?

colebiancardi