JKR to Emma Watson: H should've married H

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The thing is, why should it be important to you whether she portrayed Hermione and Ron because she liked them together or because she judged them suited well as artist? In fact the attempt to divide the two (not by you, by JKR) feels so weird to me. I mean, she liked them together for whatever reason, maybe  she remembered her crush in school and imagined herself as Hermione (complete and wild unsupported speculation), or for whatever reason really. So she liked them and as an artist  she wrote about them reasonably convincingly IMO. That's all what should matter now for us of course JMO.
 

 As to marriages, sure, I get what they symbolized - I just think that it would have felt more believable to leave the idea as to whether it is possible to meet your forever true love and never, ever date anybody else when you are eleven up to reader's imagination. Because while I am not the one to deny teenage love (as I am sure I mentioned before close member of the family met his wife when they were sixteen-seventeen), I think it is rare and meeting each other as kids is so rare that  could be eye rolling. I love these characters, I cheered for their happiness, still do, but the more time passes the more I feel that I would  loved open ended epilogue in regard to their romantic entanglements.
 

 Alla

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