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

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

I thought we already established that apparition points are fanon? Either way, it makes sense to me, since Apparition is fairly loud and a bush may not always be present. I think its a fairly cleaver thing fanon came up with. :)

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Like I said in my comment, there are fanon inventions that work well with the rules set by the canon world and fanon inventions that don't make sense given what we know about canon. And Apparation points don't make sense to me, as they'd have been mentioned if they were something magical people needed or ever used. They just don't serve any purpose.