Another etymological tip for you: French arose as a regional dialect of Latin and has obviously developed since. English absorbed many (Norman) French words after the conquest of 1066. English did not spring from Latin.
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Even though, ever since the first book became a bestseller and she became a household name, it's mostly been the opposite, and the people who take her to task for fucking up almost always know more about the subject than she does
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It wasn’t her idea, as far as I’m aware.
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It's probably tied to how she used just...a weird hodgepodge of vaguely archaic mystical terms. Like in some respects Rowling's pointedly positioning herself outside genre fantasy made her use of various strange arcane esoterica come off as Fresh and New.
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Yeah. It's just that the Philosopher's Stone isn't even really that obscure, so it was a surprising choice all around. It's probably good, on the balance, that the Sorcerer's Stone is a HP-created item, since it no longer needs to reference anything.
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