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The resurgence of sequels and expansions to existing franchises has started filling in the gaps where fandom and fanfiction once dwelled and thrived. Because of these additions, lifelong fans have been faced with the dilemma on whether to abandon their own headcanons and ideas of where the stories should go and accept the new stories as canon, or to reject them and continue their own speculation. Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child, namely, have created new stories that have now begun to raise questions of what happens when fandom rejects canon, or when the fandom and canon seem to have different values and goals.