How to read us

Canon policy

This journal is a fan's notebook. It is not a ruling and not an official companion. Labels are how we keep the notebook honest. How the desk writes and corrects, including the Monday, Tuesday, and Friday essay, is the editorial policy.

Story reference

Encyclopedia entries and glossary lines describe the fictional world in original wording: a place, an institution, a rule of a made-up sport. They are reminders, not excerpts. If a detail is widely shown in the novels, we may state it briefly. We do not reconstruct scenes.

Settled in the story

Some questions the novels actually answer. When we say settled, we mean the published school sequence resolves it. A spoiler warning sits on those notes. Later interviews, films, and games are not silently folded into that label.

Contested reading

Contested means reasonable readers can use the same pages and land in different places. We show the record and the disagreement. We do not announce a winner.

Speculation

Speculation is fan work: a guess about money, a floor plan, a school that barely appears. The theory of the week is allowed to be interesting and required to be marked. The daily generator, when it is configured, is instructed to file new theories as speculation and to avoid long quotations.

Films

The facing-pages section talks about adaptation as a method. A film choice is not automatically a fact about the novels, and a novel chapter is not a shot list.

Fantastic Beasts and the castle game

The creature films and the companion bestiary share a title and then diverge. Notes on that shelf say which is film, which is the bestiary, and which clashes with the seven novels. Hogwarts Legacy is a game set in the 1890s of this fiction. Its plot is game story. It is not filed as a fact of the school novels. A guess that ties the game to a novel mystery stays in the margin as speculation. The Legacy pages also say, in so many words, that this site is not affiliated with Warner Bros. Games or Avalanche Software.

Reread notes and parlor cards

Chapter notes are observations in our words, not scene reconstructions. A foreshadow line is a reading of a later echo, labeled with the book it points at. Sorting, wand, and Patronus cards are games. They use story materials and then invent a result. They are not official matches.

Dates

The almanac prefers days the novels mark. When a birthday comes from a later calendar rather than a scene, the note says so. Those dates are not quietly promoted to “the book says.”

What we will not claim

We will not say that Warner Bros., J.K. Rowling, or the official Wizarding World confirmed, commissioned, or approved a note on this site.