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Help[Opinions] Re: Hermione?
in reply to a message by Jade Diana
You sum up my feelings perfectly there... but I do think that JK has a lot to answer for in choosing such a pretty name and thus condemning it to a world of marmite-love-hate associations.
My feelings about Hermione/Beatrice/Violet is that actually, now that you think of it, they've got a bit of a theme going on. I'd always liked Hermione after finding the name in Shakespeare, and Beatrice I knew beforehand and was indifferent about. Then we read Much Ado in lit, and I did love Beatrice as a character in that - it might have been how spunky and witty and sharp and harsh and amazing she was til the end, or it might have been my lit teacher singing the verses from the play with metaphorical flowers in his air and speaking the lines or picking on guys to say the lines in funny voices which made me warm to the character. And of course, I was young enough to steal Lemony Snicket's books from a sibling and like their whimsy and interesting words... and Violet is a pretty smart cookie in that too.
Sooo... three smart fictional women names there, and I never noticed!
I love Hermione and Leonora as well, by the way! Leonore/Lenore is a favourite and could be a nickname for Leonora, but Leonora is lovely in it's own right, and Hermione and Leonora looks so much prettier and sparkier than Hermione and Leonore.
My feelings about Hermione/Beatrice/Violet is that actually, now that you think of it, they've got a bit of a theme going on. I'd always liked Hermione after finding the name in Shakespeare, and Beatrice I knew beforehand and was indifferent about. Then we read Much Ado in lit, and I did love Beatrice as a character in that - it might have been how spunky and witty and sharp and harsh and amazing she was til the end, or it might have been my lit teacher singing the verses from the play with metaphorical flowers in his air and speaking the lines or picking on guys to say the lines in funny voices which made me warm to the character. And of course, I was young enough to steal Lemony Snicket's books from a sibling and like their whimsy and interesting words... and Violet is a pretty smart cookie in that too.
Sooo... three smart fictional women names there, and I never noticed!
I love Hermione and Leonora as well, by the way! Leonore/Lenore is a favourite and could be a nickname for Leonora, but Leonora is lovely in it's own right, and Hermione and Leonora looks so much prettier and sparkier than Hermione and Leonore.
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