In a recent interview with Sunday Times, Harry Potter author JK Rowling admits that Hermione Granger should have married Harry Potter rather than Ron Weasley.

If you've followed the Harry Potter series, you could relate to the sweet and innocent romance between Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. The decision to pair Hermione with Ron rather than the protagonist came as a refreshing change from stereotype films when the hero always gets the heroin. Now, six years after the last book of the series was published, author JK Rowling revealed in an interview with Sunday Times that it wasn't supposed to be like that. She revealed that her pairing of Ron and Hermione was more of "a form of wish fulfillment." She regrets not having paired Hermione with Harry as they made a "better match."

"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment," she admitted to the tabloid. "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."

"I'm sorry, 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," she said.

Fans however seem pretty happy with the Ron- Hermione pairing and many of them said they wouldn't have it any other way.

"I think that it was important to recognize that the quest to stop Lord Voldemort and his merry followers was one that only Harry could fulfill and that Harry needed to feel this isolation," a commenter wrote in The Sydney Herald Morning. "If Harry and Hermione were an item, it would have given these two characters a more even footing, so, as much as we may have liked to see Harry and Hermione together, I think the plot works better by having Harry hook up with a lesser character, and keeping Ron and Hermione playing a supporting role."

MuggleNet.com, site devoted to Harry Potter fans sent out a tweet about the recent Rowling Statement and fans on the microblogging site didn't take it too well too.

"WHAT??? I am heartbroken!," commented someone named "ana." "Ron and Hermione's relationship is wonderful because it is FAR from perfect at the beginning of the series and slowly (and ingeniously) develops into my favorite couple in the whole series! I could go on for days about why I love them."

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