[HPforGrownups] JKR to Emma Watson: H should've married H

[Shelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 192596


> Kemper:
> Hey all,
> It's been some weeks, huh.
> What are people's thoughts on a the characterization of H or H: would they
> have married each other?
>
>   Here's a link to the interview snippet:
>
> http://www.hypable.com/2014/02/01/jk-rowling-ron-hermione-relationship-regret-interview/
>
>> Dorothy:
>>        I read this, and I thought that her original thought, that which she
>> wrote and published, was the right thing.  I know she said that she didn't
>> want any upset fans, but Hermione and Harry are no way a good couple.  That
>> might have been accepted had we only knew that, but it sure wouldn't have
>> been as interesting or as "real life" as the Hermione & Ron couple.  Thank
>> goodness she wrote what she first felt.
Shelley:
I never thought the Ron-Hermione mix would have worked- I always thought 
that pairing was awful. Having said that, I don't think this 
"revelation" is a good thing though. You've written your book, it's a 
huge success, and I think it's wrong to go back and said "I should have 
heart the change it". The pairings you are writing colors the whole 
book- the interaction of the three together and the moodiness of Ron 
during all those camping trips that Voldemort exploited. So many other 
plot points would have changed- it would have been a different series. 
This is no small "thing" she's talking about.

As for Harry, if he was going to be shipped with Hermione, then most of 
the plot with Ginny sorta goes away? Or, she becomes one who had a crush 
on Harry and then decides to move on, and they still keep the 
friendship, paving the way for Harry to be with someone else. She could 
have written it that Harry had a ton of "fan girls" who worshipped the 
ground he walked on, and yet instead she had him alone and feeling 
isolated from the other students (Chamber of Secrets)- Ginny made sense 
in that she never stopped believing in him. Hermione, I always felt, 
would have been like "kissing your sister". She's so full of herself 
anyway, that I really can't see her fully partners with someone who was 
as competitent as Harry. It'd be too much of a competition.  (It'd be a 
two first born marriage, for those who have read anything about Kevin 
Lemin and his birth order research- two first borns in a marriage tend 
to butt heads a lot as they are both used to being the leader and taking 
charge, and you can't have both partners in charge at the same time.) I 
am personally in a marriage like that, and it can work long term (we've 
been together 26 years), but it's only because each of us are too damned 
stubborn to quit. There's constant tension that never really goes away. 
You only solve it by each having his/her own demain to be in charge of.

Ron, in that respect, is a youngest and is used to constant making 
compromises, and so he would be giving in to Hermione a lot (the 
yes-dear type of relationship). I just don't like the idea that she's 
trying to rewrite the book long after it's finished- I think it's 
disrespectful to the readership.

Shelley