Hermione's Name/Fate

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No: HPFGUIDX 55108

MaggieB wrote:
>Hermione, the goddess of the Harmony, was one of Mars' daughters. 
>Also interesting to note is that Mars is also the father of the 
>famous twins, Remus and Romulus. 
>Isn't it interesting that Hermione does play peacekeeper between 
>Harry and Ron? Are there any other instances? And wouldn't it be 
>odd if Professor Lupin turned out to be Hermione's half
>brother?

Abbey wrote:
>Hermione is also the daughter of Helen of Troy and Menelaus
>Her dad arranged for her to marry Orestes (who ended up murdering 
>lots of family members and was haunted by Erinyes for a long time), 
>but when the Trojan War began, he tried to get on the Greeks good 
>side by marrying her off to Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus), the only son of 
>Achilles. The two suitors dueled over Hermione and Neoptolemus was 
>killed. Sounds kinda like a Harry Ron Hermione love triangle to me. 

Greicy wrote:
> BTW, has anyone read The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare? JKR got 
> Hermione's name from there and I wanted to know if there maybe a 
> clue about Hermione.  I have it, but I just can't get into it.


Erika:
>I read "A Winter's Tale" in my full-year Shakespeare course a few 
>years back.  In the play, Hermione is the wife of Leontes the of 
>King Sicilia. She has a son by the name of Mamillius and is 
>pregnant as well. Leontes, for no real reason, (at least as far as 
>I remember) becomes insanely jealous and  believes she may be 
>having an affair with his friend Polixenes the King of Bohemia 
>(which she is not). Eventually, he goes into a rage and Polixenes 
>flees for his life while Hermione is thrown into prison. Shortly 
>thereafter, she gives birth to a daughter and,  according to her 
>attendant Paulina, dies in the process. She is not seen again until 
>the final scene of the play.
<snip>
>In any case, after all this has happened Paulina leads Leontes to a 
>room in which she has what seems to be a statue made in the image 
>of Hermione- but a Hermione who has aged some fifteen years. She 
>ask Leontes if he will accept her and, when he does, Paulina speaks 
>to the "statue" and Hermione returns to life. 
<snip> 
>I thought I read an interview somewhere in which Rowling said that 
>her Hermione wasn't meant to have much in common with 
>Shakespeare's. The idea was to choose a name that a pair of 
>dentists might choose in order to show off, but also one that was 
>unusual enough so that a real little girl wouldn't get teased for 
>having a name similar to Rowling's creation. Has anyone seen an 
>interview that said something to that effect?
>The only parallel that I can see off the top is the whole idea of 
>Hermione being turned into a statue- reminds one of the 
>petrification incident in CoS a little, doesn't it?


Thank you, Erika.  I did hear about that interview, so you're not 
the only one.

Now I'm putting all of Erika, Abbey and Maggie's comment together 
here and it seems like Hermione in all 3 stories is caught between 
two men, excluding HP.

Mars!Hermione, goddess of Harmony, is one of Mars' daughter who has 
two brothers, or half-brothers, by the name of Remus and Romulus. 
HP!Hermione's "brothers" are Harry and Ron and as stated by Maggie 
is the peacemaker between them.

The other two Hermione's are involved in love.  Helen of Troy!
Hermione is betrothed to two men who battle over her and then one 
dies.  (I like to call him the "left over" =) because she was only 
going to marry him to be on Greece's good side.)  Then there is 
Shakespeare!Hermione who is accused of sleeping with Polixenes by a 
jealous Leontes.  

When you look it these all together it seems to what Abbey says is 
true, HP!Hermione could find herself stuck in a love triangle.  Or 
by two bestfriends who are no longer bestfriends, but rivals.

Wonder if JKR is mixing these stories together and adding something 
else to the mix. Any suggestions

Greicy, who just loves to talk about Hermione!