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Romilda Vane (born c. 1982) is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. Romilda has long black hair, dark eyes, and a prominent chin. At the time of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she was a Gryffindor fourth-year, meaning she must have entered Hogwarts at the time of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Romilda has a celebrity crush on Harry throughout the sixth book, but unlike previous characters such as Colin and Dennis Creevey and Ginny Weasley, whose hero-worshipping of Harry was not only harmless but often amusing, Romilda sometimes crosses the line. She introduces herself to Harry on the Hogwarts Express and invites him to join the group in her compartment, but not without making snide remarks about Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, whom she considers "uncool." Harry stands up for his friends and refuses her invitation. Later in the year she attempts to trick Harry into taking a love potion, but while he takes the box of chocolates she gives him, he is wise enough not to eat them. Several months later, Ron Weasley accidentally eats several of Romilda's doctored chocolates and is affected by the love potion, forcing Harry to take him to Professor Slughorn for an antidote.

Etymology

"Romilda" is a Teutonic name that means "Glorious Battle Maid." It is also the name of the heroine in the George Frideric Handel opera Serse who, through no fault of her own, finds herself caught in the middle of several love triangles. Rowling may have chosen this name because of the phonetic resemblance between "Serse" and (as usually pronounced in English) Circe, a Greek Goddess who turns Odysseus' crew into pigs by means of a potion, which would be referenced by Romilda Vane's attempt to trick Harry into drinking the love potion. "Vane" as in "vain", is an obvious reference to the character's vanity. Her name is an anagram of "I'm a Dan Lover," a possible reference to Daniel Radcliffe.

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