JKR regrets Ron/Hermione - states Harry/Hermione should've been endgame
Rowling says that she should have put Hermione and Harry together in the Harry Potter series instead of Hermione and Ron.
“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” she says. “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 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."
“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.”
Rowling also says that Ron and Hermione would have needed “relationship counseling.”
and the sound of Harmonians rising from their fingers-in-ears LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, CANON stupor rings across the fandom
life is breathed back into the hardened hearts of these shippers, igniting a fire they locked away with the fall of livejournal
they emerge from their hibernation caves wrought with fury.
and this time, it's fringe-canon.