Personal Canon Meme

[gehayi]

Gacked from ignipes:

Name one character from any fandom I know and I will give you three facts about them from my personal canon.

The canons that I know would be Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lord of the Rings,
Highlander, Doctor Who and, of course, Harry Potter. (I'll omit Star Wars because I don't really have personal canon for that, and A Song

Comments

[erinlin]

Neville Longbottom.

[gehayi]

1) Neville's poor memory for spells is due the actions of an overzealous young Healer. The Healer cast far too many Memory Charms on the terrified and traumatized baby, not knowing what else he could do to preserve the sanity of a child who had witnessed hour upon hours of horrific torture. The Healer didn't ask for permission to cast the Memory Charms--and so Neville's family never knew that the boy had suffered any damage.

2) Dumbledore never told the Longbottoms about the prophecy. He assumed that Voldemort's focus on the Potters ruled Neville out. He was dead wrong. The prophecy did, and still does, apply to both boys, and without Neville's help, Harry won't be able to succeed. (This has probably been Jossed by JKR, but I still like it.)

3) Neville will eventually use Mimbulus mimbletonia the basis for a treatment for victims of Crucio.

[ignipes]

Voldemort.

[gehayi]

1) Voldemort was smarter before he created the Horcruxes. Since the loss of a soul in the Potterverse causes the remaining husk to be mindless, it follows that damaging a soul and putting part of the damaged soul elsewhere causes a subsequent loss of intelligence. Voldemort didn't realize that this would happen when he got started, and once he'd created a few Horcruxes, his ego convinced him that he was the exception that proved the rule

[ignipes]

I like these! Much better than the canon Voldemort.

I think #1 certainly must be true, if Voldie's competence as an evil overlord is anything to go by. :)

[rochefort]

You can choose from Duncan, Buffy or Harry. Any of the heroes. Or all, if you're feeling loquacious.

[gehayi]

I spent an hour and a half writing up an answer--only to have the computer crash and the answer be lost. I'll have to get back to you on this one--that was just too frustrating for words.

[rochefort]

Oh, what an arse. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on a hero, though.

[gehayi]

i) Harry tried telling one teacher about the Dursleys back when he was about seven. She was sympathetic and, feeling that no child should be so neglected or ignored, notified social services

[minkhollow]

How about Regulus?

[gehayi]

1) Regulus has dark blue eyes, not grey ones. It's perhaps the only outward sign that he's not like everyone else in the family; other than that, he resembles Sirius without looking exactly like him.

2) He joined the Death Eaters primarily to shut his mother up; she nagged him to join for about a year. He also thought of them as a political organization (not unlike the Young Republicans), which would be influential later on, particularly as he would need a job in order to earn some kind of money; the family fortune needed some new revenues.

He was badly surprised by the initiation and the Dark Mark; it wasn't what he bargained for at all. He would have bolted then and there if he could have gotten away with it.

3) Regulus was forced to read Nature's Nobility, a book of wizarding genealogy, when he was about eight, and to read it every year thereafter until he turned seventeen. This book ended up being essential in his determining Voldemort's real name and the uncovering of the first Horcrux; Voldemort made repeated references to

[zoesmith]

Drusilla from Buffy and Angel :-)

[gehayi]

1) Drusilla isn't her real name. Angelus named her that, after Caligula's insane and incestuous sister. Darla thought that was funny, so it stuck

[zoesmith]

Drusilla isn't her real name
Yes! I totally agree with you. I was reading about Caligula's sister and it seemed so obvious that Dru was named after her by Angelus. And then I tried to guess her real name, but I couldn't come up with sth. :-)

Interesting theory about how she was approached by Angelus. It's like his style.
I wonder if she was supposed to be a Seer for the Powers that be, and if Angel realizes that and sees a part of Dru in Cordy.

Dru chops the heads off of dolls as a way of acting out what she knows is wrong with her
Really spot on character analysis.

Thank you for commenting about Dru, she's by far my favorite.

*kisses*

[gehayi]

I wonder if she was supposed to be a Seer for the Powers that be, and if Angel realizes that and sees a part of Dru in Cordy.

I think she was supposed to be a Seer, and that that's one of those that Angel figured out once he got his soul back. Sudden awareness of his murders caught his immediate attention, but once he figured out how much damage he'd done to the world by destroying Dru's life and mind...OUCH.