[HPforGrownups] Re: Confused on Hermione Pronunciation

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 621


----- Original Message -----
From: Vicki Merriman <vjmerri at iquest.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:07 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Confused on Hermione Pronunciation


>
> --- 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.

That's exactly what I thought, too - made me laugh almost as much as I did
each time Hermione moaned that no one but her had read Hogwarts, a History.
I mean, it's not a common name, but as well as being the name of Helen of
Troy's daughter, it is also the name of Shakespeare's heroine in The
Winter's Tale, so it's not that unknown, especially for an actor - wonder
why Jim Dale is pronouncing it like that?

Mind you, I was in a play a little while ago and a lot of the characters
were called Miss ... and Mr ... and the director encouraged us to give our
characters first names, so I was Hermione Chasen (for obvious reasons!) and
one of the guys in the cast who is a learned Shakespeare buff laughed when
he read it and said 'Your character's name is Hermy-won?'  It's a little
like having to get used to Voldemore rather than VoldemorT, I guess - it
depends on how you've been hearing it in your head.

Alix