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

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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?!?!?!?

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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.

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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.

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Also, you should be aware that I strongly support the idea of Ron/Hermione. I believe that had they been real people, they actually would have been good for one another.

Far from cheering me up, the opening lines drinkingcocoa's reaction left me feeling even more disheartened than I already felt.

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Oh, I'm sorry about that. 8-(