[HPforGrownups]Hermione's name (was: Multicultural Harry Potter)

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 17292


--- lea.macleod at gmx.net wrote:
> Annd (BA in french literature) wrote:
> 
> > I believe Hermione would be the French name. In
> any
> > case, Jean Racine, a French playwright from the
> 17th
> > century, wrote a play about the Trojan war called
> > "Andromaque" and there's a character named
> Hermione
> > (Helen of Troy's daughter) in it. So at least the
> name
> > exists in French literature.
> 
> So I believe my ship was named after the greek
> Hermione, too. Good to 
> know who that original Hermione was, actually. I
> didnt know! Is there 
> anything in the character or in the story of the
> mythical Hermione 
> that could give us a hint about how things will go
> on with "our" 
> Hermione?
> 
> Any french people around here who could verify that
> the name hasnt 
> been changed in the french editions?
> 
> Lea
> who passed her driving test with 100 % and who won a
> kids dancing 
> competition when she was 11 (you seem to have to
> have *some* kind of 
> qualification to be allowed to post here!)
> 
Well, I'm not a French person, though I do have the
books in French (yes, I do read it). Hermione is still
Hermione in the copies I have on hand.

Sheryll

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