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*** And annoyingly, most fanfic gets it backwards. They had sweaters with their correct initials, the joke is that George didn't know the ''rest'' of their names. And he also apparently thinks Percy's name is 'Prefect'.
*** They also usually finish each others sentences in fanfics, this happened less than a handful of times in [[Canon]].
** Also, Rowling has ''never'' said that Grindelwald was Dumbledore's lover. Fandom made the leap from a simple "Dumbledore loved Grindlewald" to "they were shagging like bunnies". [https://web.archive.org/web/20130328152602/http://harryahistory.com/2010/02/vault-xx-dumbledore-and-grinde.html Grindelwald was aware of his friend's feelings, and exploited them]. Of course, that's still open-ended enough to allow fans to continue their field day.
{{quote|'''Rowling''': I think he was a user and a narcissist and I think someone like that would use it, would use the infatuation. I don't think that he would reciprocate in that way, although he would be as dazzled by Dumbledore as Dumbledore was by him, because he would see in Dumbledore, 'My God, I never knew there was someone as brilliant as me, as talented as me, as powerful as me. Together, we are unstoppable!' So I think he would take anything from Dumbledore to have him on his side.}}
** It's generally taken for granted that Snape is Draco's godfather. It's stated nowhere in canon, but most people believe it to be as true as the fact that Sirius is Harry's godfather.
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* Oh, ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', how we love thee. Apparently, Thranduil is an alcoholic who regularly beats Legolas senseless and Aragorn was orphaned at two. The former is highly unlikely, based on what we know of elves in general (elves have great difficulty even getting drunk, let alone addicted) and Legolas in particular, while the latter is downright contradicted by the Appendices (Aragorn's father died when he was two, but his mother lived until he was in his seventies).
** And all the Rivendell Elves have defined personalities: Erestor is the grim headmaster type, Glorfindel is the resident babysitter and [[Deadpan Snarker]], and Elladan and Elrohir are [[Trickster Twins|troublemakers]] (as well as Elrohir being the more sensitive of the two and Elladan having more of a temper). None of that is in the books.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308205551/http://tinni.s43.eatj.com/ This site] exists to tell canon apart from fanon, a fairly tricky task since the canon for that particular fandom is notoriously shifty -- what with J.R.R Tolkien constantly revising his ideas -- and [[The Film of the Book]] can't help either.
** The Russian Tolkien fandom has a set of very specific Fanon, mostly First Age-related, most of which was established by published big fanfics (Yes, there is a bootleg [[Expanded Universe]] version of Arda in Russia, illegal in most of the world but legal in Motherland itself).
*** The (common to most Tolkien fandoms) notion of Celegorm the blond
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