[HPforGrownups] Re: Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 156179

> Ceridwen:
> I'm US.  I'd never heard of a 'philosopher's stone' except as an
> interesting side-note that this is what a 'sorcerer's stone' was called
> in Britain.  Might be the age of the material I read that from - long
> before public internet - or it could be my age.

Magpie:
Really?  Learn something new everyday!  Because the Philosopher's Stone is 
what the actual thing is called both in the US and in the UK--it's a 
standard thing in the study of alchemy, and what Nicholas Flamel allegedly 
did succeed in making.  I'd heard of the Philosopher's Stone as a real 
object long before Harry Potter came out, which is why the change seemed so 
odd.  It was like if the original title had been "Harry Potter and the Holy 
Grail" and they changed it to "Harry Potter and the Holy Goblet" because 
grail was an unfamiliar word.

I can't remember--do they change the name of the stone in the movie?

-m