Harry Potter - Quidditch, Sorcerer's Stone?

Thanks to two different readers for submitting Harry Potter game-related stories. On the one hand, a recent IGN Cube interview talks with EA about Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, an interesting sports game concept if ever there was one. According to EA, "..there's a progress from Hogwarts to working your way up a World Cup ladder. I can confirm that Viktor Krum (who appears in book 4) is in the game--which is appropriate since he's the 'Michael Jordan' of Quidditch in a sense." On the other hand, the ever rumor-spreading C+VG site are claiming that next-gen versions of Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone are scheduled for later in 2003, based on a leaked release schedule, since there has only a Playstation 1 console version of the first movie/book so far - this is far from confirmed, however.

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Philosopher's Stone

[trouser]

On behalf of the rest of the English speaking world I'd just like to remind everybody here that the book is actually called 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

The American publishers elected to change the title to appeal to an American audience. There's a list of changes made to the rest of the book circulating on the net. Seems like at least one word/phrase was changed on every page of the book so that American readers wouldn't be confronted by the realisation that people in other countries have different names for common items and can spell properly. (Aluminium)

Re:cool

[watchful.babbler]

I wonder if they might add some more emphasis on (deleted)'s role in Sorcerer's Stone, considering he dies.

Dear God, Slashdot actually gets through most of a week without dropping a major spoiler, and now you have to do it for them?!!?!

That's it. I'm gonna read at +5 from now on....

Trolls and moderation (OT)

[OldMiner]

The grandparent post is a troll posted by a logged in troll. This is what the zoo system is for. Set your Foe modifier to -3, mark him as a troll, and let moderation do its job. As far as AC goes, just give AC -1. Knowledgable ACs normally get modded up anyhow. At that rate, you can generally read small comment articles at 0 with few trolls. That is, if you read often enough to foe logged in trolls.