Notice-Me-Not is just a fanon thing? Noooo :-O

[birdsofshore]

I was just searching for info on the Notice-Me-Not charm, and there isn't any, because it's a FANON INVENTION. NOOO! Really? The first webpage I found where someone was asking about it, had some smartarse saying "I think you'll find that's just a sad FAN FICTION thing, you poor deluded fool", I was smirking away: "heh, that's what you think, I have seen it in LOADS OF.....er.... loads of fics. Err. Ahem."

Did you all know this? Who made it up? What other fanon things have become so widespread that they can fool us like this? I know about Tempus, but can you tell me any others?

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[capitu]

I can only think of that charm to correct someone's vision.

I think that's completely fanon and I always thought it was canon; that somewhere in the books someone said this was possible to correct Harry's? Or maybe someone else's eyesight with a spell, but discussing it back in a post I made about fun facts, turns out that's just made up.

[birdsofshore]

Oh yes! That's a great one. You would think there would be a spell like that, absolutely.

We don't know everything about how magic is developed through the years, really. I presume new spells are devised and that the wizarding world could discover a cure for shortsightedness, just as the Muggle world has done.

[capitu]

Yeah, in fact, that's one of the profession I think I'd love to have; developing new charms, not just variations of an existing Charm, but real new spells, you know?

[birdsofshore]

Yes. I adore it when I read about that kind of thing in fic. I have absolutely no skill at imagining such topics in any detail. Do you remember that Manticoria last year? So original in its development of how magic develops and some of the mechanics of it.

[oakstone730.livejournal.com]

In my own head-canon, I think that Harry's vision issues must be related to the curse scar and as such wouldn't be fixable by a charm -- but the vision charms do make for a nice 'fix' to Harry's glasses.

[birdsofshore]

I love Harry's glasses. Being awfully short-sighted myself ;-)