JK Rowling, author behind the "Harry Potter" book series," dropped a major bombshell during an interview with Wonderland Magazine. The issue doesn't come out until Thursday, Feb. 6, but Britain's Sunday Times published some excerpts from the magazine article.
In it Rowling discusses the characters in "Harry Potter" revealing that Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley should have never ended up together. In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in the series, Ron and Hermione not only got married but had two children together named Rose and Hugo.
Rowling told the magazine that Hermione should have married Harry Potter.
"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really," Rowland said. "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."
"I know, I'm sorry," she added. "I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I'm absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people's hearts by saying this? I hope not."
Surprisingly, Emma Watson (who played Hermione) agreed saying that she thinks this revelation won't be that shocking because fans probably already knew.
"I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy," Watson said.
Ouch. Wonder how Rupert Grint (who played Ron) feels about all of this? The fan reaction to the revelation has been mixed. Some "Harry Potter" fans loved how Hermione and Ron's friendship grew and eventually blossomed into a romance, while others felt she could do better.
What do you think, should it be Hermione/Harry or Hermione/Ron?
