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The Potterverse Collection(s):

We are now officially off the clock.

And off the map as well.

Rowling’s version of the story is officially complete. (Pay no mind to the woman behind the curtain who is attempting to rewrite the series in an online format.)

I say Rowling’s version, because by this time it ought to be obvious that the Harry Potter phenomenon has grown to encompass any number of rival versions that Rowling has had little direct input upon. Fandom is like that. It’s taken Potter fandom longer to reach this point than your typical media-based fandom would have, but it has definitely reached it. For example; after spending a year and a half drafting out ever more intricate methods by which Professor Snape might have managed to survive being bitten by Nagini, it is now largely accepted that — should a fanfic author need him to show up in the course of his or her story — then, of course, he survived. And one is now less facinated by how he did so, than in what happens next.

And, as for what Rowling has to say about who ended up paired off together; it is to laugh! That, dear reader, has devolved into a mere suggestion.

Nor is any of it likely to stop on a dime any time soon.

General Updates:

Last General Update was:

October 31, 2007

Next Scheduled General Update:

There isn’t going to one. Not a general one.

With the closing of the official canon, most of my game has finished. I am primarily a theorist. We certainly no longer have a free hand to try to figure out what is going to happen.

We still have a reasonably broad scope for trying to figure out what has happened. As antcipated, there were a lot of loose ends dangling in the breeze at the end of the final volume of the official Harry Potter series.

We also have as wide a scope as we ever did to try to extrapolate what may have happened in the past, or what could have happened.

As a theorist, I was primarily concerned with attempting to sort out the patterns which appeared to be embedded in the text, as we were given it, with a view toward getting a broader, or more focused picture than what was immediately evident upon a casual reading. Most of the theories which I built in pursuit of this goal have been either exploded, or confirmed, partially confirmed, or shown to have been irrelevant to the story as Rowling chose to tell it.

This does not necessarily mean that I am finished with the Potterverse. Only that any theories which I continue to explore will probably have even less to do with those areas with which JK Rowling has concerned hersef.

And it certainly does not mean that I have abandoned producing publication projects of Potter-based fanfic. Publication projects are what this site is all about.

In the meantime, however, it seemed appropriate to reorganize the material in view of the fact that there will almost certainly be no further professionally published novels concerning the life and times of Harry Potter.

JK Rowling claims to have learned to never say never, so it is unknown whether we may or may not get any additional novels from her set in the Potterverse. But it would be a bad idea to count upon it.

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Incremental Revisions:

As ever, I am an incorigible incrementalist. So there may be any number of minor tweaks which will set off a little fluries of repostings as I think of new points or as mistatements are pointed out to me. Watch this space.

(It should be noted that some of the older essays may now be out of sync with these newer adjustments.)

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January 9, 2012, [Both Collections] Reformating of all pages to increase the main text column width. Some typos have been caught, and other minor corrections made. No major revision, although the ‘Holy Baloney!’ article got a bit of rewriting, ‘O the Times are øut of Joint!’ got some additions, ands a couple of other articles got some touching up.

December 31, 2011, [Main collection] (belated realizations)

The Pensieve Gambit

August 8, 2009, [Main collection] (new material, new developments)

Magic & Wizards