PoA Thought

[lightofdaye]

So I've been listening to audio book of Prisoner of Azkaban fo the upteemth time and this quote leapt out at me: "you're the cleverest witch of your age I've ever met." - Remus Lupin

It seems to me that that quote gets shrunk down to 'the cleverest witch of the age' a lot. Or at least it seems like a lot in fanfic and I can't remember if gets referred to very often again in canon.

But... that ommission completely changes the meaning to me. With it it means something like 'wow, you're really smart for 14.' without I always read it as 'you're literally the cleverest witch of your generation'

And its not just Hermione, lots of fanfics will refer to Harry by some variant of boy-who-lived, modified to account for his later victories, far more than canon does, or at least so it seems to me.

Not sure what i'm concluding here beyond 'fandom loves nicknames' and 'poor ron: why doesn't he get a moniker?' but I thought you might appreciate my ramblings nevertheless.

Comments

[torino10154]

I looked online (not in the books LOL) and there's nothing on the nickname page at HP_Lexicon and there's also nothing on her Wiki page under "also known as" which has stuff like "Hermy" from Grawp and "Herm-own-ninny" by Viktor.

LMAO I also found this forum discussion from 2005!

The nickname 'Mione for Hermione. It's incredibly widespread, yet no one's ever called her that in canon.

That's even before HBP I think so it would have to be in the last two books if it does exist.

[lightofdaye]

you looked things up? That's cheating! :P

[tamlane.livejournal.com]

Shiny! I was too lazy to look it up. ;D

You mentioned Ron being doped up, and maybe that's what I was thinking? When he gets hit by the love potion/poison and calls out for her in the hospital?

'Mione doesn't seem like an unusual shortening of Hermione to me, and Ron's quite lazy that way, but all things in moderation, no?