User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/The guys at Marvel show their true colors/@comment-5473242-20130508201747/@comment-3317214-20130509210306

No, that's totally different. And do you know what the difference is? For DC, those events in the past still happened. They're just stories that aren't being continued any more. What's more, they're just stories. And the great ones don't lose their greatness, simply because they don't fit in with the new universe.

Sidenote, I've heard people theorise that the story of Harry Potter was Harry's imagination. That it was his way of dealing with depression.