Hermione
Americannoun
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the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
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a female given name.
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There was a similar outcry in 2016 when Noma Dumezweni was cast to play Hermione Granger in the original London production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
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 ● Nov. 10, 2025
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 ● Oct. 8, 2025
Watson played Hermione Granger in the eight films based on Rowling's books between 2001 and 2011.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Harry, Ron, and Hermione squeezed their way out of the door as quickly as they could, but by the time they gained the street, Malfoy had disappeared just as successfully as they had.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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