{"id":1407469,"date":"2019-08-05T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1407469"},"modified":"2019-08-05T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:21:34","slug":"6-of-the-most-bizarre-literary-fan-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-of-the-most-bizarre-literary-fan-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"6 of the Most Bizarre Fan Theories in All of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/bizarrelittheoriesMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For some people, when the story is over, the real fun is only just beginning. You see, when the narrative reaches its inevitable conclusion, THAT&#8217;S when certain fans take to the Internet with their own absolutely bananas (but still totally plausible!) interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a good fan theory, and I love it even more if it&#8217;s weird. The weirder the better, really. And since every fan theorist worth their salt has a fifty-page manifesto out there on the Internet somewhere, just waiting to be discovered, here are some of the craziest literary fan theories I&#8217;ve found floating around. (Besides the \u201cRon Weasley is time-traveling Dumbledore\u201d theory. We&#8217;ve already covered that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people, when the story is over, the real fun is only just beginning. You see, when the narrative reaches its inevitable conclusion, THAT&#8217;S when certain fans take to the Internet with their own   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,13980,1393,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407469"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419023,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407469\/revisions\/1419023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}