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Hermione is heavy and pretentious. Hermione Ferdinanda is all that, in spades. Hermione Isla sounds trite - just the way the IE sounds echo each other, I suppose. Hermione Jane is the best, but thematically the two names are too far apart.

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And then there are pronunciation issues. When the Harry Potter movies hadn't come out yet, a German-speaking friend was reading the books to her small children and - at Book Club! - told us about this and about the character she called HER MOYN. Misreading had led to the mispronunciation ...