What is canon anyway?
Mar. 28th, 2014 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stgulikIn 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.
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.
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Date: 2014-03-28 04:16 pm (UTC)For me, canon is the text of the books and only the text of the books. So a definite no to the movies as canon. And while I enjoy the bonus content from interviews and Pottermore (especially when it suits my porny purposes ;D), I don't consider such content to be canon, either.