Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[Carrie]

No: HPFGUIDX 156217

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


Carrie:
I also had heard of the Philosopher's Stone before Harry Potter but
it had been about 10-12 years.  When I read SS I didn't even connect
the Phil stone and Sorc stone until I read that the UK version was
called Phil stone. But as alchemy wasn't as big in US, more people
in UK would know about the PS, than American children.
If you had never heard of the phil stone, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone sounds like the Rosetta Stone for Sartre and
Kierkegaard.

Yes, they did change the name of the stone in the movie.

Carrie