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Youtube upload of the panel, for those interested:
[adrotate group="5"]Ah, but what if they recognized him as Harry Potter? Would they help him then? I…am inclined to say yes but not out of the goodness of their hearts. Harry Potter is, at the least, rumored to be powerful and as we can see from Draco, that family is drawn to that which is powerful. Draco sees that Harry is poor, under fed, and poorly clothed…yet he wants to make friends with him. Why? Because Harry Potter is a name in the wizarding world with a lot of influence.
Something I’ve always pondered about is what WOULD have happened, had Harry made friends with Draco instead of Ron? Would he have gone into Slytherin? Would Draco’s bad behavior have rubbed off on him?
Introducing? Yes. But his full fleshed out backstory (421) they did themselves.
Well, they also didn’t handle Zelena’s backstory.
JKR later said she wished she would have fought harder to keep the title “Philosopher’s Stone” in the States. But you have to remember she was still largely unknown at the time of the initial publishing and didn’t have the clout that she has now.
I actually own the British versions of the books too, and that’s what I’ve been using for this re-read. But yeah, renaming “Philosopher’s Stone” to “Sorcerer’s Stone” really took away the mythological significance of said item. Of course the British versions contain several more differences based on British dialect vs. American dialect. There are less differences between the two versions when it comes to the later books. Here’s a list of some examples from book 1:
Mmm. I don’t know. I think A and E would want to tackle that one since Merlin is so vital not only to Camelot but to their own OUAT mythos (though, the one writer they’d trust to handle it, if not them, would be Jane).
Well, they did have Jane and Kalinda handle “Best Laid Plans”, which ended up introducing us to the Author.
Dumbledore’s bio on his chocolate frog card: “Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon’s blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel.”
Interesting to note that Grindelwald was defeated in 1945, the same year as the fall of Nazi Germany during WW2. Knowing Rowling, this is not a coincidence. Also, Nicolas Flamel was a real historical person. If you were a British reader in the UK, where the original title of this book was “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, the connection would be pretty obvious about now. More information about Flamel can be read here:
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