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[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

http://www.hypable.com/2014/02/01/jk-rowling-ron-hermione-relationship-regret-interview/

“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” she says. “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.”

Have you seen this? I think it's interesting that she said that she was clinging to the plot as she first imagined it. That explains a lot about the epilogue!

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[oryx_leucoryx]

IOW she didn't listen to her characters. Not that I think Harry and Hermione would have been better. I think they should have ended up with 3 other people, probably ones they only met for the first time after the war was over. No baggage.

[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never got relationship vibes from any of them either and I'm generally not buying that everyone married their high school sweetheart and never met anyone else. But I still prefer Harry/Hermione only because Ron/Hermione reminds me so much of Molly and Arthur =S

[oryx_leucoryx]

Yes, Rowling made them more and more Molly&Arthur as she went along. If anyone wants to know what Molly and Arthur were like as kids they have much of it in Ron and Hermione. She even gave both Molly and Hermione fall birthdays, and both Arthur and Ron spring birthdays. And I bet the older couple were also prefects, and Arthur confiscated other people's illegal toys so he could play with them.

[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

If they were muggle toys, certainly. And the worst thing is, that Rowling probably intended the comparison to be drawn, cause she actually thinks that Molly and Arthur are a great couple.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

I always thought so, too.
Another thing that bugs me is Ron just stepping into his dead brother's place like that. As if all Weasleys were interchangeable ...

[ladyzenobia.livejournal.com]

Well... they pretty much are to me =P (except Percy, bless him), but I get what you mean. The replacement-Fred storyline always looked so out of left field to me. Makes me wonder what she had planned for Ron that didn't make it into the books.