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Hermione

American  
[hur-mahy-uh-nee] / hɜrˈmaɪ əˌni /

noun

  1. the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.

  2. a female given name.


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The three child actors who will play Harry, Ron and Hermione in the new HBO series were announced in May.

From BBC

His golden Gryffindor trio included Emma Watson as the muggle-born bookworm Hermione and Rupert Grint as the loyal but sometimes insensitive Ron.

From Los Angeles Times

Twenty-five of the pieces were donated by British art historian Hermione Waterfield and the rest by South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti.

From BBC

Twenty-five other items were donated by British art historian Hermione Waterfield, who established the Tribal Art Department at Christie’s in 1971.

From Barron's

Linke compared the structures to the small magical handbag of Hermione Granger, a fictional character in the “Harry Potter” series, saying that they can “store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume.”

From The Wall Street Journal