Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161024005929/@comment-1916997-20161026012526

Jordy267 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Well Pottermore is Word of God (J.K. Rowling) canon, just as things Adam and Eddy say on Twitter about Once is Word of God canon. The creators/writers being the god of there creation. While it would be nice if everything could be in the main materials, you just don't have room for everything, so some things have to get pushed to suplemetary materials or answers in interviews/social media. The difference being you don't really need Pottermore material to understand the original Potter books as you read them because they were written first and it's possible to be quite satisfied with the books alone without touching Pottermore. But if you rely on social media and interviews for your writing to make sense to people as it is shown for the first time, that's not good. It should be possible to understand the show on its own as it is possible to understand the Potter books on their own.

I'm not really confused about the same thing as everyone else (because I haven't seen OUATW) but if other people are confused and the writers are relying on Twitter I'm not up for that. I don't think what they post on Twitter is absolutly nessisary though. Like you said, you didn't see Wonderland, and you followed what happened just fine. The point of something like Pottermore or Adam's Twitter is the same, to clarify things and give you additional information about things not important enough to make it into the main plot. At the same time, this additional information can really change subtext and other things in the work. For instance, using Harry Potter, (and this was from an interview not Pottermore, but still) Rowling revealing Dumbledore was gay totally changed the relationship between him and Grindewald and also how that all played out with his siblings and such. To me, it made the story so much deeper, because having to choose between a friend and your family and having to choose between a lover and your family are two very different things. It also gave more insight into Dumbledore's character overall. But yet, none of this was in the books (at least besides subtext), but it is part of the canon as it was in the creator's mind when writing. So while everything that is important is in the main plot of something, it doesn't mean the creator's additional information can not be very important and add to the understanding of what the creator's intention was.