What is canon anyway?

[stgulik]

In eight or ten generations, after The Fall of Civilization, when humankind rebuilds itself from the ashes and the Harry Potter series supplants all major world religions, scholars will argue over canon in ways that make our bickering on LJ seem amateurish.

But until that fateful time, I'd like your opinion on movie canon. Is it as authentically canon as the books? When the movie version of HP7 Part 2 doesn't make it clear that Snape is not Harry Potter's father by Lily, does that idea become alternate history, or just a curiosity that ought not to be taken seriously as book canon?

Let's hear from you:

[Poll #1962449]

Do me a favor and share this poll around, because I don't have a lot of followers and I'd like some decent polling numbers on this, for science.

Comments

[delphipsmith]

And I must be a book-canon person, because when I see an author's note on fanfiction that says they've never read the books, only saw the movies, I immediately skip that fic.

I've never encountered a story with such a note, but if I did I'd probably skip it too. If you're going to write fanfic you should at least KNOW your original source material, even if you decide to ignore bits of it *koff*EWE*koff*