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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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It's hard to tell what the Lovegoods's financial situation was, but I agree that Luna didn't have any social status to speak of. By her own admission she didn't have any friends until her 4th year when she joined the D.A.. She was so grateful to have friends after that she painted portraits of them in her room.

However, unlike Hermione, Luna NEVER compromised herself to curry favor with her peers. Given that she is willing to speak uncomfortable truths to them instead of kissing up like Hermione, I suspect she wouldn't have remained friends with them either if she truly disapproved of what they were doing (if there was a successful cover-up of how seriously Harry injured Draco in the Sectumsempra incident, then we needn't hold it against Luna that she didn't drop Harry over it. She can't judge behavior she doesn't know about).

Harry desperately needed to learn that kind of integrity. Getting closer to Luna would have been a good way to do it, and I agree that there were a few hints in canon that could have lead to something more if JKR had chosen to go there.