Yeah, I mean - it's actually not even a particularly unique error. "Enervate" is one of those words that English speakers regularly misuse, for whatever set of reasons. People make mistakes, and she actually fixed this one. It doesn't mean that she's secretly right.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @canpacinobox
I do think the "Enervate" error is extremely embarrassing for her and her proofreaders but that's mainly because Goblet of Fire was a fucking record-breaking bestseller that she got paid a seven-figure advance for that had the kids lining up at midnight at bookstores etc etc
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Like I think the worst thing for JK Rowling was buying into her own hype Nobody "fact-checks" her about the folklore and mythology etc, if she gets edited at all anymore it's just for spelling and grammar (and not even that, when she's doing her horrendous eye-dialect)
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She says that she's an extremely erudite and scholarly person with all this knowledge from all these different cultures, and she isn't, but everyone she works with just accepts that she is and lets her do whatever she wants Hence all these preventable blowups happening
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Saying that skinwalkers were just oppressed Animagi or casting an East Asian woman to play a naghini from Hindu mythology Stuff that would have raised an eyebrow at the studio, maybe, if someone other than the Great JK Rowling had said it
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I feel like the Sorcerer's Stone debacle was a really unfortunate well-poisoning here It established in everyone's minds that JK Rowing was a Very Smart and Educated Person and anyone who disagreed with her about something was an Idiot American Executive in a Suit
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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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The "Philosopher's Stone"/"Sorcerer's Stone" spat is interesting because it seems to just be a generational thing, people misjudging how much more mainstream fantasy and science fiction tropes are for Millennials than they were for Boomers
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Like, say, in 1985 the final game in Infocom's "Enchanter trilogy" of text adventure games, the sequel to Enchanter and Sorcerer, was going to be named "Mage" But the suits forced them to change it to "Spellbreaker" because "No one knows what a 'mage' is"
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Nowadays that would be an absurd thing to say, when marketing *anything*, much less specifically marketing a work of fantasy to an audience of video game players We don't realize how much things have changed and how relatively quickly they have
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Yeah, and to be fair, if the target audience is 11 or so, they're probably highly unlikely to get the reference to the Philosopher's Stone on its own merits. What probably caused the issue was the word "philosopher" there, which is admittedly confusing in context.
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