Occasionally Snarky and Meta

And your other posters've probably said this, but one of the things I like best about fandom -- it's raison d'etre, for me -- is that it fills the interstices, the silences, and the holes in canon. It takes canon in other directions, takes a sentence or a scene or an idea, and runs with it at an angle away from canon (not too far, I hope; I do have personal preference parameters, as we all do). If I want canon (and I do) that's what JKR's there for. A reader who wants strict canon (and, oddly, there seem to be a couple of people who do in the fandom -- why they're here, I'm not sure, since by definition the fandom is not canon) is probably best served sticking to canon itself. :)