There was too much fundamental incompatibility." In a later interview, however, Rowling (possibly backtracking) said she thought Harry and Ginny were more like soulmates, whereas Ron and Hermione were a kind of an opposites-attract couple. “[They] are drawn to each other because they balance each other out.
Seven years after the beloved “Potter” books came to an end, author J.K. Rowling said she regrets pairing heroine Hermione Granger and guy pal Ron Weasley. In a soon-to-be-published interview with Emma Watson, who played Granger, Rowling admitted that she thinks Potter and Granger would have been a better match.
“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.”
Another lamentation J.K. Rowling has about the Harry Potter series is how certain characters' names are so commonly mispronounced. With Hermione Granger, for example, Rowling had to pretty much spell it out in the text once she discovered that fans were saying her name incorrectly.
Though Hermione and Ron do end up together at the end of the HP Saga, the acclaimed author has said in several interviews that she considered having Hermione and Draco end up together in the end. Rowling even suggested that Draco bullying Hermione was like adolescent hair pulling on the playground.
Rowling now says she should have paired Hermoine Granger with Harry Potter, instead of his bud Ron Weasley. Ron and Hermione would have needed relationship counseling.
Faced with reality, Draco finally understands his whole life, his whole system of “right and wrong,” is not correct. He was just a manipulated boy. Rowling is adamant that Malfoy didn't deserve a redemption arc because there was never a “heart of gold” underneath his pompous act.
“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.”
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According to Mental Floss, Rowling said that Hermione and Ron are equally matched and good for each other because of their personalities. She said, “[They] are drawn to each other because they balance each other out.
The hugely successful author tells Wonderland magazine she chose the red-haired Ron for Hermione for very personal reasons having little to do with literature. She told the magazine she “wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfilment” and said the couple might eventually need relationship counselling.
Hermione sees Harry as only a friend so she has no trouble hugging him. The same is not true of Ron who she has stronger, unacknowledged feelings for. She doesn't want to hug him for fear it will become immediately and plainly obvious to him and even Harry how she feels about Ron.
Hermione, apart from being in love with the man who abandoned them, felt like she had failed in her determination to keep them all friends. On top of that due to leaving unceremoniously, Ron, Hermione believed, wasn't coming back as the chances were that he wasn't going to be able to come back even if he wanted to.
Ron never apologized openly by saying “sorry". Since the books are Harry's pov, we don't have many apology moments in the books. Even in Gof, when Ron hurt her, it is not outright stated that he apologized. They were simply being civil to each other the next day.
She Was Attracted To Him First
Maybe the reason why she usually sniped at him or bossed him around was because Hermione was always drawn to him. Of the two of them, it was Hermione who realized she liked Ron first as she dropped heavy hints in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire of her attraction.
Rowling says that she had in fact been invited to attend but that she made the choice not to go. According to Rowling, the reason why she declined the invitation was because the focus of the special was on the feature films rather than the novels. "I wasn't (excluded), actually. I was asked to be on that.
Rowling's rejection story is a familiar one for many aspiring writers. She received rejection after rejection, with some publishers telling her that her book would never sell. However, she refused to give up. She kept sending her manuscript to publishers, even after receiving rejection letters.
As the author of Harry Potter, Rowling, 57, also owns the rights to the franchise's intellectual property, meaning that she earns royalties based on revenue generated from sales of the book, Harry Potter merchandise, the films, the Warner Brothers theme park, and the recently-released Hogwarts Legacy, which many trans ...
Not to be blunt, but without Hermione, Harry and Ron would have died many times over. As would loads of other people. For all the times Ron and Harry took the mick out of Hermione, you can bet a few Galleons they wouldn't have made it through seven books without her.
Though Harry encountered many opportunities that deemed Avada Kedavra necessary, it remains as one of the Unforgivable Curses Harry Potter never cast. For one, he viewed the spell as an immoral practice commonly used by users of the Dark Arts.
In the book, it's primarily because: Hermione didn't disapparate with Harry and Dobby from Malfoy manner. So it's possible she wasn't close by them. Ron apparated with her based on the description of the scene and not knowing Dobby's injury, he probably took her right back to Shell Cottage without thinking.
Specifically, Draco was jealous of Harry. It was easy to miss because Draco didn't often show his emotions, modelling himself on his cold, confident, calculating father, but J.K. Rowling has confirmed that a lot of his enmity towards Harry stemmed from envy.
Not knowing whether Draco was alive or dead, Narcissa chose to lie to the Dark Lord rather than risk losing her son. When Voldemort asked her to check if Harry was dead and she realised he was, in fact, still breathing, Narcissa seized her opportunity.
Draco had several reasons for lying to Bellatrix, including the fact that he was never a bad person. Moreover, he no longer found working for the Dark Lord appealing and hated how Voldemort treated his family. He did not intend to harm anyone and believed Harry was the only person capable of defeating Voldemort.