Potentially complex fandoms brainstorming post

[worldbuildingmod]

Some AO3 fandom tags are unfortunately not particularly useful for our purposes, in terms of making the scope of the material to be considered clear.

Tags for one of the prime examples of this have in fact already been nominated, in the shape of Harry Potter.

The canonical "Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling" tag is not, to my way of thinking, clear enough, as there are many sources of information that might be extrapolated from, including:

• The original seven Harry Potter books
  
• The eight films adapted from them
  
• Information from the Pottermore website
  
• The Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them film
  
• The Cursed Child play/script
  

Last year, we had three categories: "Harry Potter - Books Only", being the first bullet point above and only the first; "Harry Potter - Wizarding World", meaning all possible sources; and also "Harry Potter - Wizarding Schools Around The World", which was based on a specific extra piece which people may or may not still be interested in. It does seem to me that both Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child have gained much wider currency in fandom since the last round, so it may be worth having a different set of subdivisions.

Please use the comments of this post to discuss how Harry Potter should be split up, and then make/adjust nominations as necessary.

ETA: Thanks for the Harry Potter replies so far. I'm still thinking about the best way to deal with this particular fandom.

(Please note that I have approved "Middle Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien", taking this, as last year, to be construed as broadly as possible - i.e. all Tolkien's various works set in Middle Earth. I am in the process of adjusting these tags so that they can be distinguished from film-based ones if we end up with "Middle Earth - Peter Jackson Movies" as well, as we did last year. I am also open to the idea of more restricted Tolkien tags running alongside the broad Middle Earth one, if people want them.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd personally prefer something along the lines of:
1) Harry Potter - Books 1-7 (possibly with the epilogue bundled in to CC rather than here)
2) Cursed Child (with the books implicit which is why I wonder if the epilogue might be better here)
3) Wizarding World - Pottermore
4) Wizarding World - no Pottermore

I've not seen either the original films or Fantastic Beasts, so can't comment on where they would belong.

[worldbuildingmod]

I can see the benefits of most of that, but I think epilogue-compliance or not would be something for the optional details if people were requesting Just The Books (whatever we end up calling that).

That is, requesting Cursed Child implies accepting the books and the epilogue, requesting Books Only is agnostic about the epilogue without further clarification.

Would your Wizarding Worlds incorporate Fantastic Beasts implicitly?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

The reason I was looking to separate out CC and books 1-7 is CC contains a lot of stuff from Pottermore that's controversial as well as the controversy about the content of CC itself. The epilogue implicitly contains some of that Pottermore stuff but none of it explicitly.

I've never seen Fantastic Beasts, but given what's been said elsewhere I'd impliclty throw it in with Wizarding World - Pottermore becuase it's not really adding worldbuilding that wasn't in Pottermore.