Confused on Hermione Pronunciation

[Pam Scruton]

No: HPFGUIDX 624

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Vicki Merriman" <vjmerri at i...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

My Latin teacher told us that in Latin and Greek you really can't go 
far wrong if you sound out absolutely every vowel.  Some consonents 
go together - th, ph, sh, st, etc. etc. but vowels have their own 
sounds and are almost never silent.  Miss Strauss (an Austrian lady 
teaching Latin in an English girls school) would be amazed that I 
remembered anything she said for five minutes let alone 35 years!

If the Harry Potter books have demonstrated anything, they have shown 
me that it's about time Latin and Greek came back onto the school 
curriculum if only for a few lessons as part of a history course.  

Now I've started humming the song of the tortoise (Carmina Testudo) 
which goes to John Brown's Body - I'll never get that out of my head 
today.

Pam