# Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289 "2007-07-02T23:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/1 "2007-07-02T23:27:50Z")
One for the Latin scholars: I saw _Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum_ in a bookshop this morning. It’s the next in the series of Latin translations of the Harry Potter books. Has anyone read any of this? The translation is by Peter Needham. He also did _Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis_, which I thought was quite a clever translation. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/2 "2007-07-02T23:56:25Z")
Great! I’ll look for it (though I’m still slogging my way through _Harry Potter va Hon Da Phu Thuy.)_ ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/3 "2007-07-03T14:34:07Z")
I believe that’s a Raincoast Edition. They also have them in Irish, Welsh and several other languages. I love the Raincoast Editions in English, and not just because you can get them at Wegmans two days after the Scholastic edition comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Sparklo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Sparklo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparklo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/4 "2007-07-03T14:52:47Z")
So in the Latin version, did they cross-translate the spells back into English? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/5 "2007-07-03T15:03:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sparklo] So in the Latin version, did they cross-translate the spells back into English? [/QUOTE] Or better Latin? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/6 "2007-07-03T18:26:49Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] I believe that’s a Raincoast Edition. They also have them in Irish, Welsh and several other languages. I love the Raincoast Editions in English, and not just because you can get them at Wegmans two days after the Scholastic edition comes out. [/QUOTE] Why do you like Raincoast editions in English? Because of the cover art / inside artwork? I gave my nephew the latin ones because a) he’s a Harry Potter fan and b) when he was taking Latin last year he was complaining that Latin was useless because no one used it. I keep on meaning to get it for myself since I took Latin in high school. I have the French language versions that my wife got me when she spotted them in our local bookstore. Seeing them in Welsh and Irish would be interesting also. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/7 "2007-07-03T18:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] Why do you like Raincoast editions in English? Because of the cover art / inside artwork? [/QUOTE] The book is slightly smaller and thicker, so it has a “one-handed” construction, and you can read it by the pool, say, and not wind up with the spine broken and the pages flying away behind you. The cover art is different ( I never liked the art in the Scholastic edition) and it hasn’t been edited for Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/8 "2007-07-06T04:23:30Z")
I just bought a copy at lunchtime. It’s the Bloomsbury hardback edition. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harrius-potter-et-camera-secretorum/410289/9 "2007-07-06T10:33:21Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] Or better Latin? [/QUOTE] Hopefully. But the names are what they are, right?