I have proof. Warner Bros. Now, I don't think you're suggesting that celebrated philosophers are real-life wizards with magical powers. Left: Archimedes, mathematician and philosopher, but not wizard. Mention of the Philosopher's Stone has been traced back to around AD, which believe it or not was quite a while before the first Harry Potter book was published.
DrewCosmic71 J. Rowling was born in The United Kingdom, so it makes sense to have everyone else be from that area. Anarmstrong they should actually have used the term the Vitalist's stone. Bijou Because Schoolastic was all ''American kids won't know what a Philosopher is cause they're stupid and they won't want to buy it'' and Jo was like ''That makes sense''. Lila Because they thought no one would want to read anything that had a word as "boring" as philosopher, so they changed it to the more "exiting" one: sorcerer.
Timothy Morrison they should actually have used the term the Vitalist's stone. Dan Lee Hi! I have not even noticed that the title was changed. I like this book and a was reading it so many times when I was a child. Now, I am a ps Hi! Now, I am a psychology student and I have decided to investigate the impact of this book on mind.
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Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. Simon Blake, Shrewsbury England Perhaps it was thought that an American readership wouldn't pick up on the mystical connotations of "Philosopher's Stone". Peadar Mac Con Aonaigh, Brixton, London American kids and parents are far less likely to have heard of the Philosopher's Stone, since like most European myths these are diluted in US education for the very valid reason that American history and myth takes their educational place.
For some reason, they also cut out which house he was sorted into as well. In the US version, it is stated that he joins Harry in the Gryffindor house, clearly aligning him from the very start. Yet that doesn't happen in the British version, with the entire character being cut from Sorting - which makes things a little more confusing later on, as Dean appears in the book in Harry's year, but was not mentioned alphabetically during the Sorting Ceremony!
This is a fairly small detail, but the sweet, Sherbet Lemons just so happen to be a firm favorite of Professor Dumbledore, which he mentions throughout the franchise. In the British version of the book, the sweet is called a sherbet lemon, which is a hard, sour shaped sweet that has lemon fizzing powder. However, these sweets aren't common in America, and because of that, it was changed to a lemon drop in order for more people to understand what was being discussed when this particular confectionary came up.
Any time a letter is written in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , the font is changed to a different script depending on who is writing the letter. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , the letters are simply changed to an italic font with no other special fonts used to represent each character. This may have been an issue of practicality, as the publisher may not have wanted to put the extra effort into creating fonts for specific characters for the first book in a series that wasn't guaranteed to be popular.
One Hogwarts textbook, in particular, has a different name between the UK and the US version of the book. Towards the end of the novel, Harry is studying for his finals and looking up the word 'Dittany' in the textbook 1, Magical Herbs and Fungi. This is one of the few books that has yet to find its way onto Muggle bookshelves, however, it seems that the US version is the preferred title for most fans.
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