CHAPTER 4 HERMIMONE
Hermione was born with the name "Hermimone" due to her father named her that. Then her father died of tuberculosis or pleurisy when she was seven (years of age), and Hermimone was adopted by the Grainger family which came originally from Ogygia but relocated to Pittsburgh in the mid to late 19th century. Shortly after relocating to England, they dropped the "i" from their name and became the "Granger" family. Hermimone's adoptive parents took pity on her and legally changed her name to Hermione.
Backing up for a moment, it is important to understand that the second "m" in her name was always silent. But the other school children didn't understand that. So Hermimone was subject to the humiliation of mispronunciation on a daily basis. Since she had no friends, she put all her efforts into her studies which included ornithology, witchcraft and photography. Her love of photography led her to a brief relationship with Colin Creavey. But she left him due to his creepiness which we will discuss in a later chapter.
The reason for this digression now will become clear when I tell you that Ron called Hermione "Hermimone". It was one of only a handful of intelligible words he could speak, the others being mainly "par boiled", "insurance claim" and "Elphaba".
But such things are less important. What is important now is that Ron was considered an idiot and occasionally a moron for his inability to pronounce "Hermione." Only Hermione knew the truth that Ron was speaking the phonetic spelling of her birth name! She convinced herself that it was some unfortunate mistake, for she considered Ron an blithering idiot too.
It occurred to her one day that Ron might be smarter than he looked. So she asked him, "Ron. Why do you call me Hermimone?" Ron began jumping up and down while making monkey sounds. Hermione felt foolish to think that she credited Ron with intelligence.
Besides, Hermione had now started to make friends at Hogwarts. She seemed better accepted than in the muggle world. She counted Harry as her friend. Also, Neville and Ron's brothers and Colin and Dobby and Tom Felton. Dobby is a house elf and not a person. But as we proved earlier, non persons can be friends.
We could talk more about Hermione but we will stop here for now in the interests of time. But there might be one thing to add. Hermimone had brown eyes. And she knew magickal spells. She was good at school but was intimidated by chipmunks. She had a marvelous singing voice and was compared frequently to Calypso and Miley Cyrus. She had operatic range but hated opera.