Fill in
Stuff
Stuff verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
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- If Word of neither God nor Saint Paul is available, fans will often make stuff up themselves to fill in important gaps in canon.
Source: God Never Said That - Also, to replace Rowling's gobs of exposition for off-Hogwarts stuff (usually via Hermione in the book), OotP uses a high-end Spinning Paper visual to quickly fill in the audience of the important stuff away from the castle.
Source: Pragmatic Adaptation -
The series was hastily ended with a lot of loose threads and a bunch of stuff that made no sense unless you had played the Starforce video game, and even then the plots between the two mediums were so different by that point that is was more of a "fill in the blanks and hope you're right" thing.
Source: Filler
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