What is canon, or what is not.(was.New Card Story (was Re: Muggles v wizards

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> Jerri's reply:
> I wonder why the discussion is on the OT list?  It is something that 
> JKR wrote about the Harry Potter Universe with the knowledge and 
> intent that it be available to the public.  Surely it is as On Topic 
> as the stuff that she put on her web site or interviews.  (And I know 
> that some don't give interviews the same status as the books, but 
they 
> are discussed on the main list.)


Potioncat:
I don't remember why the first question about the postcard appeared at 
the OT site, it just did. Probably inspired by something else going on 
over there. I thought at the time that it was interesting that a 
similar one didn't start over here. I'm not sure how many of us dart 
back and forth between sites. In the heyday of HP discussion, I rarely 
had time to follow both sites.

As to the question 'what is canon?', we've had that come up before too. 
While some of JKR's for-charity writing falls under canon, others don't 
seem to. The Black Family Tree for example, hasn't caught on, and 
really doesn't seem to have anything to do with the plot(s) of the 
books.

There was an add-on to QTTA, a list of names of students who had 
checked it out of Hogwarts library---that also seemed to have nothing 
to do with canon.

Just thoughts.