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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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[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

ruthfully, Hermione is the one that acts like a real friend. The boys however, never really seem to treat her as if she's more than homework help. At least not until Ron's jealousy acts up.

That's largely the case, sadly. A lot of the material for H/Hr, particularly from the early books, was all one-way. Hermione really *worked* at the friendship. She had a 'saving harry thing'. But Harry rarely reciprocated to the same extent.

At least in the early books. The bulk of book #5 was 'The Harry and Hermione show'. In book 6 I was pleasantly surprised at the efforts Harry took to be a good friend to both Ron *and* Hermione; he made the choice to support both of them while they carrying on with Rowling's asinine 'jealousy flags real love' programme.

But then in book 7 he was a total bastiche when it came to the tent scene, leaving Hermione to sob herself to sleep night after night with almost no comfort coming from her 'best friend'.

There *were* some slabs of true friendship from Harry; enough for fanfic authors to use. :-) And heaps from Hermione, of course. Enough overall to have kept the H/Hr fans happy over the years.

(Their number now including one J. Rowling, it appears. :-))