Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[teaoli]

JK admits Harry should have wed Hermione

"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really," Rowling says in the interview. "For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron."

Why?!?!?!?

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Why what?

[teaoli]

Why is she changing her mind after all of these years? I thought (and continue to think) that Hermione and Harry would have been terrible together.

[kerravonsen]

Did she actually say that Harry/Hermione would be better, or did she simply say that Ron/Hermione wouldn't work? Because the quotes I've seen of her actual words, in the articles I've read, are all about how Ron/Hermione wouldn't suit.

The conclusion that she meant Harry/Hermione may be in the minds of the people who wrote the articles, not in what she said.

Looking at this BBC article, for example, it says nothing about Harry/Hermione at all, just about the unsuitability of Ron/Hermione.

Go read drinkingcocoa's reaction; it may cheer you up.

[teaoli]

One of the sources I read said that she actually said that HG/HP was the thing to have done, but I don't recall if they quoted her on that. Guess I'll have to wait till the Wonderland article is available later this week.

[spockchick]

Hmm... this bugged me bigstyle. Does a writer not know her characters? There was a TEN year publishing period. I've heard relationship counsellors say that you know if someone is wrong/right after three years, and, as their puppetmistress, she would have had an overview. I'm not sure why she is even bringing this up. Ron/Hermione is the perfect balance, her precise nature tempers his more relaxed one, her studying verses his 'give it a go'. Really, to make an 'upset' now seems odd.

[teaoli]

I'm not sure why she is even bringing this up. Ron/Hermione is the perfect balance, her precise nature tempers his more relaxed one, her studying verses his 'give it a go'. Really, to make an 'upset' now seems odd.

Yes. Exactly. All of your points are things I've thought about this.