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Lord Voldemort may have been put out of commission by his own Killing Curse, but longtime Harry Potter friend Hermione Granger still isn't safe in the Muggle world - at least from a slight misrepresentation, anyway.

For the last three years, residents and passers-by of western Missoula's Hermione Lane, named after a character in the popular Harry Potter franchise, have been unaware of a nearly unnoticeable, yet crucial, error: The name is spelled wrong on the street sign, reading "HERMOINE LN" instead.

"Nobody's ever noticed it," said Jennifer Piippo, a resident of Potter Place Loop who lives across the street from the faulty sign in Windsor Park near the Missoula International Airport.

Piippo, a Harry Potter fan, said that since moving to Potter Place Loop in 2006, she's had friends wanting to take their picture in front of the street sign.

But, Piippo said, "Now that I noticed it, it will bug me every time I drive by it."

Hermione Lane is just one of three streets in Potter Place Loop referencing the immensely popular J.K. Rowling series, according to Collin Bangs. The other two are Diagon and Muggle lanes. (In the series, the young wizards buy their supplies in Diagon Alley, and a Muggle is non-magical human - in other words, most of us.)