Confused on Hermione Pronunciation

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 615

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Larry Nguyen" 
<larryngocnguyen at h...> wrote:
> First I had thought that it had been "Her-ee-own"
>  But then in an jkr interview I had read jkr had said "her-my-own-
ee"
> And finally I heard an excerpt from the GoF audio and that 
said "Her-
> mahn-ee"
>    HOW do you say it? this is driving me mad!


It IS "Her my ow nee."  JKR even helpfully tells us in GoF.  Remember 
the part at the ball where Hermione is trying to get Krum to 
pronounce her name correctly?  I am firmly convinced that this 
paragraph was in there to try to settle the matter worldwide.  Why 
Jim Dale continues to pronounce her name Her mah nee is beyond me.  
He even carefully reads Hermione's pronounciation correctly, then 
goes right back to Her mah nee.  I thought that perhaps the audio 
tape people didn't find out it was too late until book one was 
already finished, and that they just decided to be consistent even 
since.  One of the English posters on the list thinks that there is 
an English accent that might slur the middle two syllables together 
to produce the Her mah nee effect.  Its definitely odd, though, 
because the correct classical pronounciation, as well as JKR, 
indicates its Her my ow nee.


I used to think it was Hermy own, also, until Brooks corrected me 
shortly after I started him on the books.  I've loved greek and roman 
literature since the 7th grade, but since it was in print, I never 
did figure out how to pronounce some of names until well into 
adulthood.

Vicki