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Readers refer to it either as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Here's why the book has two titles.
For those catching up with the book series before the TV show premieres, some key differences should be noted for the Philosopher's Stone vs. Sorcerer's Stone. The later part of the Harry Potter series is full of surprising plot twists, many of which found their roots way back in Philosopher's Stone.
It is (I think) relatively common knowledge that in America, the first book in the Harry Potter series is called Harry Potter in the Sorcerer’s Stone, while in England it is called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
“Sorcerer’s stone” doesn’t have the same history behind it as the philosopher’s stone, which was thought by alchemists in centuries past to turn ordinary metals into precious ones and prolong the user’s life, but it is a bit more straightforward.
The "Philosopher's Stone" is not an invention of JKR's; it has been in fables for years and years. For some unfathomable reason they switched it to the newly-invented "Sorcerer's Stone", thus ignoring the ancient connotation.
In America, the first outing of J.K. Rowling's most famous creation is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but pretty much everywhere else on the planet, it's Harry Potter and the...
The Philosopher's Stone was a legendary alchemical substance with magical properties. The ruby-red Stone could be used to transform any metal into pure gold, as well as to create the Elixir of Life, which made the drinker immortal.