JK admits Harry should have wed Hermione 
 
 Emma Watson as Hermione Granger with Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter (Murray Close/Warner Bros.) 
 
 IT WAS the romance every Harry Potter fan wanted to see. Now JK Rowling has admitted she got it wrong by pairing off Hermione Granger with Ron Weasley rather than her franchise’s hero. 
 
 In a rare interview, Rowling admits that although they ended up together, they are not a credible couple. 
 
 She said: “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfilment. 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.” ||||| The Sunday Times is today reporting that J.K. Rowling has changed her mind about Ron and Hermione, stating that Harry and Hermione would've made a better match. All we can say is be wary of the reporter's spin; the wording of the article changes from version to version. 
 
 The story has arisen from an interview between Jo and Emma Watson - who portrayed Hermione Granger and wife of Ronald Weasley - in this month's Wonderland magazine, which will be guest edited by Emma herself. Until we get this article (which is released on Thursday), we need to be careful about claiming to know Jo's thoughts. 
 
 The printed article suggests that only Emma believes Harry and Hermione would've made the better match, while the online article states both actress and author agree. 
 
 As far as the content of Jo's reported speech is concerned, it is clear that she believes Ron and Hermione would've faced relationship issues in the years following the end of the books. The quotes provided by the Times, however, detail more about Jo's writing choices than the relationship itself: 
 
 “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. 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.” 
 
 Whether Harry/Hermione would have been a more successful couple or not is obviously a subject of great debate within the fandom, yet Jo's choice at the time of writing was one made from her own personal image of the characters and where she wished the plot to go. Hindsight may have given her a new perspective on alternate possibilities, but we can't deny Jo's original plan and the deep love of the Ron/Hermione relationship felt by fans and author alike. 
 
 We patiently anxiously await for the official print version to come out Thursday. Do you prefer the Ron and Hermione relationship as told in the stories or the Harry and Hermione relationship developped by shippers for years? Let us know in the comments below. 
 
 Tomorrow's Sunday Times front page:Lib Dems savage Gove over sacked schools boss & Exclusive David Hockney interview pic.twitter.com/1uN9psyzve — The Sunday Times (@thesundaytimes) February 1, 2014 ||||| (CNN) -- If anyone here feels Ron and Hermione should not be united in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace. 
 
 Well, guess who's got a problem -- seven years later. 
 
 Author JK Rowling, the woman who dreamed up the pair and turned them into two of the most recognized figures in literature, is now throwing cold water on the central romance in the gazillion-selling Harry Potter series. 
 
 Rowling now says she should have paired Hermoine Granger with Harry Potter, instead of his bud Ron Weasley. 
 
 And then she delivers this punch to the gut of Ron fans everywhere: 
 
 Ron and Hermione would have needed relationship counseling. What the what??!! 
 
 Rowling makes her disclosure in an interview that Emma Watson conducted with her for the entertainment mag, Wonderland. (Watson, of course, played Hermione in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter books.) 
 
 The Wonderland issue doesn't come out until Thursday. But Britain's Sunday Times published excerpts of the interview in a front-page story, "JK admits Hermione should have wed Harry." 
 
 "I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really," Rowling says in the interview. "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 adds. "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." 
 
 And what did the fictional Mrs. Weasley have to say about all this? She agrees! 
 
 "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 says in the interview. 
 
 Say it isn't so, howled Potter fans on Mugglenet.com (which bills itself as the world's No. 1 Harry Potter site). 
 
 "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." 
 
 But the we-told-you-so side also came out in force. 
 
 "Hermione deserved someone better. Ron would have been insecure and it would not have been a healthy relationship," said a commenter who goes by the name "militant delusionalist." "Harry had always said good things about Hermione and both of them being powerful wizards and brought up as muggles would have made them compatible." 
 
 Hermione meets Ron in the first book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," when he and Harry save her from a mountain troll. 
 
 We learned of the pair getting hitched in the epilogue of the seventh and final book -- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," published in 2007. The couple even have two kids, Rose and Hugo. 
 
 And they lived happily ever after? 
 
 Not quite. Not even before Rowling delivered this latest bombshell. 
 
 Two years ago, she said she once considered offing Ron altogether. 
 
 "Funnily enough, I planned from the start that none of them would die. Then midway through, which I think was a reflection that I wasn't in a very happy place, I started thinking I might punish one of them off. Out of sheer spite," she says in a conversation with Daniel Radcliffe for the DVD extra feature for "Deathly Hallows." (Radcliff, of course, played Harry in the movies.) 
 
 "In my absolute heart of hearts of hearts -- although I did seriously consider killing ... Ron." 
 
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– Harry Potter fans, hope you're sitting down—and SPOILER ALERT to any who haven't read the seventh and final book. JK Rowling says that marrying Ron and Hermione was a mistake written as "a form of wish fulfillment." In an interview with Emma Watson, portrayer of Hermione in the blockbuster film series, Rowling goes on: "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." Rowling admits that Hermione would have been happier with Harry, the Sunday Times reports. "I know, I'm sorry," she says. "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." Watson chimes in that some fans already agree, and "wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy." CNN reports on reactions at the Potter fan site Mugglenet, which range from "WHAT??? I am heartbroken!" to "Hermione deserved someone better" than Ron. At least Rowling didn't knock off Ron altogether, as she admitted to contemplating in an interview two years ago. "Midway through, which I think was a reflection that I wasn't in a very happy place, I started thinking I might punish one of them off," she said. "I did seriously consider killing ... Ron."