Rowling Admits That Harry And Hermione Should Have Ended Up Together

Had this been four years ago when I was still a raving R/Hr shipper, this would have infuriated me. As is, meh. I don't think H/Hr have much in the way of chemistry in the books; the films definitely amped it up.

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Last edited by Abbie (2014-02-02 17:39:26)

I prefer it the way it is, it was a lot more surprising and interesting with Hermione and Ron. Plus it allowed Harry to develop relationships with other girls, Ginny especially.

The problem with the movies, as-is, and relevant to the topic though, is that Harry's interest in Ginny isn't at all explained. It's just suddenly there as an homage to the books and then they're kind of an item suddenly. For a series that focuses primarily on one character, you'd think they'd give that little spark of hope in his life a bit more focus.

Isn't that sometimes how it goes though? One day, it's like a flip is suddenly switched in your brain and you start seeing someone differently than you did the day before. That's certainly happened that way with for me. I thought the way it was triggered by Harry seeing Ginny with someone else (Dean) was particularly human and truthful to real life. I think that before HBP, Harry was too hung up on Cho to have seen her that way.

Re: Ron/Hermione: I love Rowling, but she will have to pry that relationship from my cold dead hands.

Last edited by Hansen (2014-02-04 13:45:08)

It's not a sustainable relationship. Hermione would get bored with Ron.

Me.

These omissions on Rowling's part meant that I steadily lost interest in the Harry Potter series. She's made other Word of God proclamations, and they always seem to be inconsequential fan-service. Either pairing would've been justifiable, if she'd actually made the effort to justify them IN THE BOOKS. I'm glad she had that shit all worked out in her head, but very little of it made its way onto the page. As it stands, none of the romantic entanglements in those books made any sense to me.

I've never really understood this claim. Why exactly do you think Hermione would get bored in a relationship with Ron?

Ron is almost never nice to Hermione. He's rarely even a good friend; we mostly see him jealous of Harry and Hermione's successes. And the few times he tastes success himself he's kind of insufferable. Hermione is almost never anything but frustrated with him.

I am going to relay what a friend said about this, because I think he put it much better than I could.

"In a recent interview, JK Rowling stated that she should have had Hermione end up with Harry--but she's wrong. Unless her intent was to make the Harry Potter series into "Twilight". The characters created by authors are, in some ways, like real children. They take on lives of their own and sometimes do things we couldn't have expected or that we dislike. Pairing Harry and Hermione would have been too cliche, with a far less quirky and interesting dynamic than R & H. Plus, Harry marrying Ginny connects him to a real, loving family who accepts magic, completing the 180-degree transformation of his life that began in an abusive and fearful muggle household."

Last edited by FireFighter214 (2014-02-05 17:44:00)

**Edited for realizing this was a terrible opinion**

Last edited by oTom (2021-11-13 05:08:58)

Not to mention ignores all personal experience. Unless of course every single person you knew in high school is still exactly the same as they were in their last year. Frankly I've known way to many couples that got together in the last years of high school, video game bums, slackers and pairings that would make your brain hurt included, that are now happily married with kids, for R/H to even be close to unbelievable.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2014-02-06 09:36:56)