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Though I don't know the words that were altered, i think they found a broader audience by changing the slang. young american kids aren't going to know what a loo is, or what peckish means, what a gaff or meff is, or whatever british slang they might use. It's not an issue as to whether you as 20 yr olds can interpret what JK means, but whether kids can, and whether her books will get sold. I guarentee you would not like her books near as much as if it looked like Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) wrote it.

and for the philosopher/sorceror argument, that's exactly why the words had to be switched: hell, get on one's tits there means "To annoy, to get on one's nerves," what's that mean here? something a bit different, i think.