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* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, of course, have their fair share:

** There was a widespread notion that Ginny's name was short for Virginia, until JKR revealed that her full first name was actually Ginevra.

** "Spell chaining", a dueling technique in which a sequence of combat spells are arranged in order that the final wand movements for one positions the wand properly for the start of the next, allowing the caster to whip off a barrage of spells very quickly.

** A new bit as of the late 2010s was born of the "turn to smoke and zip around" effect used in the movies instead of proper apparition (which is also seen in the movies). One author named it "fumation", and the name -- along with a slowly-gelling set of advantages and disadvantages it has compared to apparition -- is slowly percolating through the fandom.

* A very popular bit of fanon in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' fandom is that Dr. Watson's middle name is Hamish; this theory was first devised by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] in order to explain why Watson's wife calls him James in one story although his first name was previously stated to be John (Hamish is the Scottish form of James).

** This happens quite a bit in Sherlock Holmes. Among other things, it's fairly established fanon that Holmes' parents were called Violet and Sanger, he at some point was part of a Shakespearean acting troupe that toured America, his older brother Mycroft is head of the proto British secret service, and the eldest of the Holmes brothers is called Sherringford (the name Arthur Conan Doyle gave to Sherlock in early drafts), a country squire.

** His surname is Finnegan.

* The Hatter's famous riddle from ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' - "How is a raven like a writing desk?" - was intended, according to [[Word of God]], to have no answer. Even so, the fanonical answer is almost as well-known as the riddle itself: "[[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]] wrote on both."

** [[Silverlock]] implies another tack by having the Hatter ask "Why is an angleworm like a parallelogram?" and when challenged respond "I don't know as they're alike."

* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] has several character facts that are fanon, the most prominent being that Annabeth can't swim. It does make sense within the canon considering she's a daughter of Athena, an therefore naturally born a rival of Poseidon meaning that her and water do not mix.