14 DAY TRIAL // This is probably going to break the heart of Harry Potter fans out there, but it looks like the odd pairing of the bookish yet stunning Hermione with Harry's loyal, red-headed friend is something even the author of the books now regrets.
It's been seven years since the final chapter of the “Harry Potter” saga and still fans are left with a bitter taste in their mouths over the eventual outcome of the romantic trio of friends. Who didn't bank on Harry and Hermione getting together eventually?
In an interview with Wonderland Magazine quoted by the Sunday Times, author J.K. Rowling admits to Emma Watson that she might have done things differently today: “If I’m absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that.”
The writer does not disclose why she made such an odd choice at the time, but she does admit it may have not been the best idea: “It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people’s hearts by saying this? I hope not.”
Rowling goes on to reveal more of the reasons why she chose to favor Ron over Harry: “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That’s how it was conceived, really. 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.”
In her eyes today, Harry and Hermione would have been “a better match,” but as things stand, Ron goes on to marry Hermione and in the epilogue of the seventh book, which takes place 19 years after the final battle of Hogwarts, the are shown to us married with two children, a daughter named Rose and a son named Hugo.
Harry himself goes on to taste the married life, taking on as his wife, Ron's sister, Ginny, with whom he has three children of his own. Now you're left free to imagine what life would have been like if Harry and Hermione would have married.