Gah. It's like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all over again.

 

Same here.

Her Moin

Didnt really click until I read the Goblet of Fire and then watched the movies.

So she exists in that limbo canon.

Not book canon but is not explicity non-canon.

 

Definitely said it Hermiown until Goblet of Fire.

The big one—I first read Chamber of Secrets under the impression that it was the first book in the series, because only it and Sorcerer's Stone were out at the time and it was the only one I saw in the bookstore when I impulse-bought it.

In my defense, I was 12. About halfway through I realized it was taking for granted a little more information than I thought it should, but I still finished it before I bought SS; I might be the only person ever helped out by the tedious recapping of events in the first chapter of the first few books.

 

Prefects are a standard thing in many English schools, so it's not just something JKR came up with.

 

Ah! That's exactly how I always pronounced it in my head too, but you're the first person I've seen who did as well, lol. I didn't even get it after reading GoF, really. And now I have to make a conscious effort when reading to imagine dan radcliffe's voice saying it properly. :facepalm

 

Am I the only person in this thread who didn't mispronounce Hermione's name?

 

I took JKR's description of Krum as 'round-shouldered' a bit far when I first read GoF, almost always imagining him to be some kind of duck-footed hunchback who was perhaps a bit slow (always scowling silently, away from everyone else, coddled by Karkaroff, etc.) and all but physically retarded on the ground. I nearly shat a brick when I saw him in the movie lol.

 

Well for one I had never seen someone's name like that.

For two it was a book. How was I supposed to figure that out?

 

Read the previous posts before sounding like an idiot, please. Some people have encountered it before, either in actual living humans or in great works of literature. I, for one, now know that it is the name of a character in Greek mythology, as well as being in Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) and Archie comics.

Edit: I do not mean Archie comics as literature.

 

But in other forms of literature there's the same problem, being that there's no phonetic pronunciation of the damn names.

I was the same about Prefects until about the fourth book (mostly because I got the first three at once and read through them in about two weeks before re-reading). I got all the names right.

Stupid, but as a kid reading PoA, I first thought that the Marauder's Map was a wrench. It was introduced as a tool, and that was what I thought of first. It took until probably partway through GoF to realize that it was just parchment.

 

...Please note the "I" in Mercenary's post. Some people encountering it before doesn't mean that he had the same experience.

I personally pronounced it as "Herman" and couldn't be fucked to ask around because:

1. It was the first time I've seen the name "Hermione" as a 4th grader and shortening her name was just more convenient for me to keep reading.

2. I didn't care about her. The story was titled "Harry Potter" and that was the character I wanted to read about, not some bushy haired girl with teeth problems.

 

Ask? When I was a kid and I ran into a word I didn't know I'd ask what the hell it meant. Same with ones I couldn't pronounce. Then again, maybe I just picked it up via osmosis at some point. Hermione is a fairly typical name for ye olde fashioned type dramas and my mother used to watch them a fair bit.

 

:|

Well I admit that's new.

 

How could a wrench function as a map? How did you think it worked?

 

How could you possibly mistake the Marauders Map as a wrench? It's referred to as unfolding parchment on multiple occasions throughout PoA.

 

I just realized the spell to cancel stupefy is rennervate, not enervate. It's fairly minor as it goes but I've also spent the last few years adamantly claiming it as a typo.

Also, so far as name mangling goes, I had never come across Hermione or Percival before and as a result they were reduced to Her-me-own and Per-ki-val. The movies were surprising to say the least.

 

Not my misconception, but both my brother and my father spent years claiming that I'd watched the Harry Potter movies with them when they went to the cinema to see them and didn't take me. As a result, I still haven't seen the earlier movies.

;__;.

 

I blame the shoddy Korean translator for this, but I always thought "Cedric" was pronounced "Keh-dric", until the 4th movie, and Hermione was "Her-Mee-on" before I became fluent enough in English to watch the movies without dub, and "Accio" was pronounced with a soft 'c' (like, "access").