Talk:Mina Harker

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Orphan?[edit]

I believe Mina may be an orphan judging from a letter she sends to Lucy Westenra. From Chapter XII, Letter Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra, 18th September : "I never knew either father or mother...". Count de Ville 01:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hair Color[edit]

The article state's that in the novel Mina is blonde. Can anyone point to a reference, as I don't recall it ever describing that. Maybe I overlooked it. I shall have to read through the book again this weekend.-- Balcerzak 18:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 22:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of inaccuracies[edit]

Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, destining her to become a vampire at her death. The only way to forestall this is to kill Dracula first and the rest of the novel deals with the main characters trying to achieve this.

Dracula doesn't feed her his blood to make her a vampire - in Dracula simply being killed by a vampire is enough to make you a vampire, as happened to Lucy Westenra. So why does he do it, then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.127.198.49 (talk) 11:48, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mina then uses her inherent telepathic abilities to track Dracula's movements.

Inherent telepathic abilities? Where does that come from? Mina is linked to Dracula because she has drunk his blood, and Van Helsing uses hypnosis to get information about dracula out of her.

Pronounciation[edit]

How is "Mina" pronounced? Is the i "long", as in mind, minor or minute (very small), or "short" as in mink, mini or minute (60 seconds)? --Austrian (talk) 09:37, 30 March 2009 (UTC) minute[reply]

Me-Na. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Should't we add this information to the article? Preferably with a source (e.g. a movie in which the name is pronounced in this way). Note that the word mina (unit) is pronounced with a long i, as in "mine". (According to my dictionary)]] --Austrian (talk) 13:43, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]