Originally Posted by slipstick

I hope this game doesn’t get all straight jacketed like the Society for Creative Anachronisms. That club started out with anybody being just about anything. Now you have to prove with genealogical delicacy that you character COULD have been real but at the same time that he wasn’t. The example in the rule book for the 2nd rule is: You can’t call yourself Joanna Baggins of Bag End because that would be trying to claim kinship to Bilbo and Frodo. Applying this to HP: You couldn’t call yourself Ecleasiasticus Potter of Godrick’s Hollow because that would be trying to claim kinship to James and Harry. But you could call yourself Harry Potter of Little Witting, Surry because (as Uncle Vern said in Book 1, Chapter 1) both Harry and Potter are very common names and it’s a larger population that the Hollow.

Before I ever heard of Snitchseeker I was writing fic with a non-canon character in Harry’s dorm. My first RPG character was the grandson of his sister and my current character is a cousin about ten years younger. I also claim that the ancestor’s parents were old friends of Dumbledore (and who can say they weren’t?) and hence I have knowledge not available to most students or even teachers. I don’t play that card to often so I don’t come off as a Garry Stew (Sparkly Poo, Sparkly Poo Ra, Ra, Ra!)..

And one more thing; CANON is the accepted writing, CANNON is the big, bronze tube on wheels under the flag pole just outside the castle.