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?

Comments

[birdsofshore]

I think Polyjuice is a fabulous piece of canon, isn't it? Really love the inventiveness and the rightness of it.

[talithan.livejournal.com]

It is pretty brilliant! The one thing I'm sometimes afraid of in fic when it's used a lot is that they'll somehow run into the person whose hair they stole (though not actually likely, but it's a risk!). Like in Reparations when the trio uses it when going out for drinks, or in The Boy Who Only Lived Twice when they use it pretty constantly. I'm sure the people they're being aren't people they're likely to cross paths with, but I always think of it anyway. And the risk of turning back into yourself if you don't keep dosing! So I like to consider appearance-altering charms as well.

[birdsofshore]

I thought the same thing in Reparations! I don't think it would be a relaxing thing to do - as you say, you might change back, and there's always the animal hair option, heh.