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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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