The line between fanon and canon

So, lately I have found myself pondering whence cometh widely held opinions/assumptions in fandoms. Why is Draco good at arithmancy? I can work out why he's good at impressions, but that's the bit of nigh-universal fandom wisdom re: Draco Malfoy (in the Harry/Draco section of the fandom, anyway, and I think the Draco/Hermione. It would shock me not at all to discover that the Draco in segments of fandom less friendly to him was made of different assumptions) that I just can't source. I don't mean "who did it first", or even "why" but more: why did *that* become so universal? But the question is fundamentally simpler in Harry Potter; there are only seven novels, and everything in them in canon.

I was also thinking about Doctor Who, and more specifically, the new series. Most specifically, I've come to the realization that most of the fandom (at least, the fic-writing parts) have a very different conception of the Time War than I have. And what I have no idea of, and really do kind of wonder, is "where did their ideas come from?" are they just interpreting the evidence differently than I, or is there information somewhere in the novels and comics I haven't read that implies these things?

( Rambling about Time War Fanon )

The line between fanon and canon

So, lately I have found myself pondering whence cometh widely held opinions/assumptions in fandoms. Why is Draco good at arithmancy? I can work out why he's good at impressions, but that's the bit of nigh-universal fandom wisdom re: Draco Malfoy (in the Harry/Draco section of the fandom, anyway, and I think the Draco/Hermione. It would shock me not at all to discover that the Draco in segments of fandom less friendly to him was made of different assumptions) that I just can't source. I don't mean "who did it first", or even "why" but more: why did *that* become so universal? But the question is fundamentally simpler in Harry Potter; there are only seven novels, and everything in them in canon.

I was also thinking about Doctor Who, and more specifically, the new series. Most specifically, I've come to the realization that most of the fandom (at least, the fic-writing parts) have a very different conception of the Time War than I have. And what I have no idea of, and really do kind of wonder, is "where did their ideas come from?" are they just interpreting the evidence differently than I, or is there information somewhere in the novels and comics I haven't read that implies these things?

( Rambling about Time War Fanon )