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Help[Opinions] Re: Hermione?
in reply to a message by Amara L.
It's one of my guilty pleasures. I would love to use, but my sister and my SO have both informed me that they would tease a child named Hermione and SO gave me the eyeroll when I said I liked it. Alas, little Hermione will live only in my imagination!
Harry Potter is a children's classic now, so you're going to have to deal with comments about Hermione Granger if you choose to name a daughter this gorgeous name. And yes, swatting down HP comments with the assertion that you got it from Shakespeare would be terribly pretentious. The bonus here is that Hermione Granger is a role model character for young girls. She is smart, independent, kind-hearted, and always stands by what matters to her. The name also has a lot more history to it than simply a 20th century phenomenon and you can feel free to explain that to those who ask if you named your daughter after Hermione Granger. At this point, you just have to weigh your love of name with the inevitable connections it will bring up. You can't correct everyone, and they will believe what they want, regardless of what you tell them. At the end of the day, Hermione is a lovely name and if you want to use it, go ahead.
Hermione pairs the best for me with short middle names. Hermione Ann is my favorite, as well as Hermione Jane. Some other ideas could be:
Hermione Joy
Hermione Dawn
Hermione Rain
Hermione Elaine
Hermione Elise
Hermione Mae
but I'm not sure I really like any of these, and I don't care for Hermione Poppy...too much "eee" in there. Ann or Jane is best in my mind.
As far as sibsets, Hermione and Violet/Beatrice/Penelope are very nice. They give the same kind of sunshine-y British feeling and the impression of girls who grew up in a home with a lot of books and tea leaves.
All in all, I adore Hermione.
Harry Potter is a children's classic now, so you're going to have to deal with comments about Hermione Granger if you choose to name a daughter this gorgeous name. And yes, swatting down HP comments with the assertion that you got it from Shakespeare would be terribly pretentious. The bonus here is that Hermione Granger is a role model character for young girls. She is smart, independent, kind-hearted, and always stands by what matters to her. The name also has a lot more history to it than simply a 20th century phenomenon and you can feel free to explain that to those who ask if you named your daughter after Hermione Granger. At this point, you just have to weigh your love of name with the inevitable connections it will bring up. You can't correct everyone, and they will believe what they want, regardless of what you tell them. At the end of the day, Hermione is a lovely name and if you want to use it, go ahead.
Hermione pairs the best for me with short middle names. Hermione Ann is my favorite, as well as Hermione Jane. Some other ideas could be:
Hermione Joy
Hermione Dawn
Hermione Rain
Hermione Elaine
Hermione Elise
Hermione Mae
but I'm not sure I really like any of these, and I don't care for Hermione Poppy...too much "eee" in there. Ann or Jane is best in my mind.
As far as sibsets, Hermione and Violet/Beatrice/Penelope are very nice. They give the same kind of sunshine-y British feeling and the impression of girls who grew up in a home with a lot of books and tea leaves.
All in all, I adore Hermione.
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It might yet be the same here... but I'm going to cling to it, cling I say!
I do agree that as fictional characters go, you can go a lot worse than Hermione Granger. She is a smart girl, and I'm terribly critical of my fellow females who don't have the brains to go with the outfit, so I can't say I hate Hermione as a character. I just never got the whole black and white moral compass of the books and as I grew older, cracks grew in the narrative for me. I guess it's because when they first came out, I was young enough to love and understand them - and then I grew up with each successive publication, and as my world view and maturity and bitterness blossomed, I became more critical of the books. I think it's pretty common with people who read HP1 when they were, like me, a similar age to it's protagonist and therefore the target audience, and then grew up and entered the real world while the books' world didn't really reflect that. I think it counts me as among the early HP fans, but the also among the people who outgrew its idealism and found themselves befuddled by the new fans as well. So I do find myself pushed away by the hype... plus, I grew up in a Shakespeare-interest household, so I heard it growing up.
Hermione Ann is pretty, but a little simple and repeats sounds in its simplicity... but it is pretty. I also like the simple prettiness (and that's how I always describe it) and retro feel of Joy, so Hermione Joy is lovely too.
I do agree that as fictional characters go, you can go a lot worse than Hermione Granger. She is a smart girl, and I'm terribly critical of my fellow females who don't have the brains to go with the outfit, so I can't say I hate Hermione as a character. I just never got the whole black and white moral compass of the books and as I grew older, cracks grew in the narrative for me. I guess it's because when they first came out, I was young enough to love and understand them - and then I grew up with each successive publication, and as my world view and maturity and bitterness blossomed, I became more critical of the books. I think it's pretty common with people who read HP1 when they were, like me, a similar age to it's protagonist and therefore the target audience, and then grew up and entered the real world while the books' world didn't really reflect that. I think it counts me as among the early HP fans, but the also among the people who outgrew its idealism and found themselves befuddled by the new fans as well. So I do find myself pushed away by the hype... plus, I grew up in a Shakespeare-interest household, so I heard it growing up.
Hermione Ann is pretty, but a little simple and repeats sounds in its simplicity... but it is pretty. I also like the simple prettiness (and that's how I always describe it) and retro feel of Joy, so Hermione Joy is lovely too.
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