User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-4898132-20110526050145

I'm probably not going to be able to answer all, but I think I may know some downfalls. I'm not 100% sure about some of them, but they are VERY possible:
 * 1) In the first book, Jack Sparrow is somehow already on Pirate on Tortuga at the age of thirteen. Jack didn't become a pirate until he highjacked a shipment of slaves while in his 20's
 * In the new novel, "Price of Freedom", there is a flashback at Shipwreck Cove where he is a pirate. That takes places I think a few years before Jack worked with the EITC.


 * 1) Jack did not meet Tia Dalma until AFTER he highjacked the slaves
 * Jack's quote: "Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves." And secondly, Jack has known Tia back in the YJS novels...there was nothing that shows otherwise.


 * 1) The mermaids are described differently than shown in OST and Whitecap Bay is where the last known group of Mermaids live
 * Mermaid could've been like a changed in form and abilities for the decades after Jack's meeting with them(hence their differences). As for Whitecap Bay...the YJS novels and OST take place decades apart. Mermaids may have been like a "rare species", like various sea monsters and such...and yet we don't know if there are more in the universe. So Isla Sirena and Whitecap Bay(as well as a few other locations), may have been the only places where mermaids be found. But if it's true that Whitecap was the only place to find mermaids in OST...it might have been what would've happened to the mermaids in the decades between YJS and OST.


 * 1) In all of the POTC movies, the Caribbean is tropical and henceforth impossible for there to be a snowy island
 * Ok, I have no idea what this had to do with anything in the universe...but all I think I should say about this is - IT'S POTC! Not everything is normal in POTC.


 * 1) Jack Sparrow did not meet Davy Jones until their "deal" (even if they did meet, Jack and Jones had a rivalry in the book, and I doubt he would offer to raise the Wench if they had a negative history with each other)
 * Technically, nothing said that Jack met Jones at the time of their "deal". As to their rivalry, as may have been evidenced by DMC...Jack had a way to talk his way out of trouble, to have Jones bamboozled during their "deal". Obviously fooled again in DMC, Jones made sure not to trust Jack again.


 * 1) James Norrington did not meet Jack until the time of COTBP (he was aware of him, but they never interacted before)
 * Norrington appeared in one of the YJS books, and CotBP takes place decades after that book...so things might've changed to where Norrington would almost not recognize Jack, aside from his "legends".


 * 1) James Norrington was several years younger than Jack, they weren't the same age

Gibbs initially hated pirates and would not have saved Teague and Jack (he demonstrated in the beginning of COTBP that he believed all pirates should hang)''
 * 1) ''Joshamee Gibbs never met Jack until after the first mutiny; they never met as children
 * That statement is inaccurate. Above all was "he believed all pirates should hang". NORRINGTON said that all men who are involved in piracy gets "a short drop and a sudden stop"...in which Gibbs does a gesture of a hanging to a bewildered young Elizabeth. That's completely different from "saying it". And Gibbs wouldn't have said "that was before I'd met him, when he was captain of the Black Pearl"...as Jack was captain of the Pearl before the mutiny. Again...NOTHING that shows against it(besides the whole "he was part of the Royal Navy" thing).


 * 1) Bootstrap Bill did not meet Jack until he became a pirate as an adult Bootstrap was a Merchant sailor before he turned to piracy, he was not a pirate as a kid
 * In the YJS novels, the whole "Merchant sailor" was a myth...as was said in CotBP, in the dialogue between Jack and Will. And Jack's quote "I knew him, one of the few who knew him as William Turner...etc", shows that he had to know him longer than just that Cortes ordeal.


 * 1) The Legends of the Bretheren Court books take place when Jack is roughly 25 years old, a year before he even made his deal with Jones. He would have still been employed by the EITC at this time
 * The synopsis of "The Price of Freedom" says that Jack is 25 years old...meaning he was 25 when he was working for Beckett(leading to his deal with Jones), AND when the journeys in LotBC begin. Again...nothing contradicting that, since we don't exactly know what year in many of the POTC events happened(aside from say OST).


 * 1) Jack did not meet Barbossa until his expedition to find the treasure of Cortes Jack and Barbossa were not as close as described in the book and he didn't consider Jack as a friend (he just used him to get the Pearl and find the gold for himself)
 * There was no dialogue saying that Jack recruited Barbossa at that time. If it was Pintel, Ragetti, etc, then I understand; but none has contradicted Barbossa's relation with Jack. Who would really consider that Barbossa had a friendship with Jack at that time? He obviously just wanted to gain Jack's trust, until the opportune moment...just like Fitzwilliam with using Jack to capture Teague in "Sins of the Father".


 * 1) Where is Angelica?, Can someone please tell me where Angelica is?, and "Where the bloody ell' be Angelica, dash it all?"
 * We just pick our own little timeline, contradicting YJS or not...kinda like the "what happens to Will and Elizabeth after AWE" thing(but that has to lead to the "10 years later" part). All we know is that it happens sometime before OST - most likely before the whole "making a deal with Jones" ordeal.


 * 1) Lian and Park were in the LOTBC Rising in the East book, but they would have been six at this time (something tells me that Sao Feng wouldn't have little girls working for him)
 * That I most likely cannot answer...the only thing I could say is that they were older than they look in AWE. Don't take this one too seriously, it's just a pure guess.


 * 1) Sumphagee was a Hindu Priest and was forbidden to love a woman (Even if he could have a lover, he is most likely a eunich anyway. For all we know, that beard could be fake too)
 * Once again...POTC is not all historical.


 * 1) Teague was the Patriarch of the Sparrow family (also, Teague's surname probably isn't Sparrow as Teague was the family's last name. Jack's real name was probably more along the lines of Jonathan Teague)
 * Yes, there have been Jack Teague and Teague Sparrow rumors, but they all lead to the same thing...NOTHING. The origins of the last names "Teague" and "Sparrow" will most likely be a mystery, as it was just a thing to name characters with, nothing more(since Teague probably wasn't going to be Jack's dad originally).


 * 1) Gibbs was several years older than Jack, they weren't the same age and Gibbs was still in the navy when the LOTBC books supposedly take place
 * Nothing showed that Jack and Gibbs were the same age(especially the age difference of Kevin McNally and Johnny Depp). As I kinda pointed out before, just because Gibbs was in the Royal Navy means squat by the look of the overall of his life.

Apologies for this long case...but most of these contradictions were just pure wrong. I'm sorry, but there were reasonable overlookings for the majority of them. Quite honestly, there are only 1 or 2 I kinda see being contradictions(because of the mystery of it all).

Other than that...I don't see anything that could possibly say that could make me think "we should say it's non-canon immediately"; especially with the ideas involving Gibbs being against pirates while in the Navy(just because of a simple gesture), and stuff that proves that POTC is partly fictional("snowy island" and the "Sumbajee" thing). :/