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Charlie Smith cmarsmith at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 19 22:14:58 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 55685

> Patricia Bullington-McGuire wrote:
> 
> > I'm an American, and I knew about the
> philosopher's stone long 
> > before the first Harry Potter book came out. 
> There are many other 
> > Americans who also know about it apart from the HP
> books.  And I'm 
> > sure there are many Brits who had *not* heard
> about the 
> > philosopher's stone before Harry Potter.  

Cynjen: 
> *raises a hand* I'm British, and I'd never heard of
> the philosopher's 
> stone before HP.

This American had heard of it before and even knew
that another name for it was the Magnum Opus. But then
again, I'm a geek who owns a copy of the (Oxford or
Cambridge, I can't remember which) History of
Chemistry. Now if only JKR would include a reference
to Phlogiston, the week I spent reading it will be
vindicated. ;)

-Charlie








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