Fans predictably erupted at what they saw as Rowling’s unwanted editorializing on books long gone to print, though early fans of a Harry/Hermione pairing were quietly vindicated either way, the books have been written, and there’s always fanfiction for all the rest. They love each other and they bicker a bit, but they enjoy bickering, so we shouldn't worry about it”-and yet she has now joked (unless she wasn’t joking) that Ron and Hermione would have needed to seek relationship counseling. Hermione's got the sensitivity and maturity that's been left out of Ron, and Ron loosens up Hermione a bit, gets her to have some fun.

Rowling’s most recent statement contradicted not only her published work, but her previous interviews, in which she claimed that Harry and Ginny were true “soul mates,” whereas Ron and Hermione operated on an opposites-attract level: “ are drawn to each other because they balance each other out. She admits that at the time, she had pushed a Ron/Hermione relationship for “very personal reasons” and as a form of “wish fulfillment” in service of her original ideas of where the books would go, not because the two were a particularly “credible” couple in retrospect, she thinks it would have made sense for Hermione to marry Harry instead. In an interview with Emma Watson, otherwise known as the real-life Hermione Granger, Rowling dropped one of the biggest bombshells of her career when she confessed her sense that pairing off Ron and Hermione had been a mistake. Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Note: If you haven't read all the books or seen all the movies, spoilers abound! 1. Here are some of the most essential insights from those interviews-though if the past few years are any indication, they won’t be the last.

She continues to release new material via the Pottermore website and has yet to quash rumors of a forthcoming authoritative Harry Potter encyclopedia (though she hesitates to use the e-word).īut some of Rowling's most surprising insights about the fates of Harry and friends have come straight from her own mouth in various interviews given since Deathly Hallows closed the book on their stories. Rowling herself, the author who has so much left to give to fans who are always eager to hear more. There’s no more obvious testament to the wizarding world’s enduring legacy than J.K. Any proper Harry Potter fan will insist that the series didn’t truly end with the release of the seventh and final book in July 2007, nor did it end with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in theatres in July 2011.

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