(no subject)

[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!

Comments

[jana-ch.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely Hermione should not get hitched until she's in her thirties. In my fantasy she pairs up with another muggleborn, whom she did not know at Hogwarts. He's smarter than she is, but is some sort of creative artist (a novelist, maybe?) so they don't compete directly. They edit each other's writing. They have one daughter, and argue about sending her to Hogwarts, but eventually decide that Headmaster Snape has sufficiently reformed the school to make it a decent educational institution. They finally get around to getting married when the child is ten, because wizards are still weird about people shacking up. Ron (who has married someone very much like his mother) is horrified at Hermione's immoral ways, but Harry thinks it's perfectly normal.

[dorea-ysleen.livejournal.com]

That seems about perfect.

[jana-ch.livejournal.com]

Regarding Hermione and her partner shacking up: it occurs to me that Ron is initially shocked but gets over it, but Ginny never shuts up about how she knew all along Hermione was no good. Harry can't see what the big deal is, but stays quiet about it.