JK Rowling admits Harry Potter should have ended up with Hermione Granger

[Matilda]

After years of squabbling, Harry Potter's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger finally became an item - but now their creator JK Rowling has admitted she made a mistake by marrying them off.

Hermione - whose quick wits get the teen wizards out of many a scrape in Rowling's hit novels - would have been better off with hero Harry, the British author said in comments published by the Sunday Times newspaper.
In fact, Ron and Hermione would likely have ended up in marriage counselling, Rowling suggested.


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No, Jo - they'd have ended up in the divorce court. I don't think any mature Potter fans would be surprised by this revelation; Ron was never Hermione's intellectual equal, and the Epilogue, which implied that Hermione was a happy housewife, was way off beam. Hermione should have ended up as Hogwarts headmistress, or even as Minister of Magic.

Never mind, Jo - there's a whole world of fan fiction out there, in which Hermione is married off to anyone but Ron, but more often than not, with a still-living Severus Snape, who would be more intellectually compatible. (This generally comes under the fanfic heading of 'EWE: Epilogue – What Epilogue?')