Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Movie
I'm sure you've all heard about it by now. The cry goes up. New canon is coming. As a writer of fanfic with an extensive personal canon of her own, such announcements hold the excitement and terror of a tornado siren. "Get in the house, Dorothy, Toto (Remus, Sirius)! There's a cyclone coming!" And then you wait, clinging to your OTP and trying to assure them and yourself that it's going to be OK. After, you come out and check your stories to see what damage has been done, what precious ideas have been ripped loose from canon. Maybe you do some repair work. Maybe you give a weary sigh and slap an "AU" label on a story. Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who weathers the storm with all your stories intact. Maybe the storm leaves you something new that you can use to build from. Or maybe you're like me, and you just stay in the basement and pretend nothing ever happened.
Somewhat ironically, JKR herself says it best, with relation to the upcoming movie: "Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it and I already knew a lot about Newt."
(Yes, I know it's not my world and that my feelings about it are selfish and possessive. I'm not saying JKR should stop doing All Things Potterverse, and never mention it again. I'm just exorcising my personal feelings in the face of canon that appears to be perpetually open when I would find it much more convenient closed.)
Somewhat ironically, JKR herself says it best, with relation to the upcoming movie: "Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it and I already knew a lot about Newt."
(Yes, I know it's not my world and that my feelings about it are selfish and possessive. I'm not saying JKR should stop doing All Things Potterverse, and never mention it again. I'm just exorcising my personal feelings in the face of canon that appears to be perpetually open when I would find it much more convenient closed.)