Entry tags:

all hail the new troll king, at least no one's knotting, authors, bitter so bitter, books/authors, burn baby burn, but what are your thoughts on otps?, canon fodder, community: oh no they didn't, fan rage, fan theories, fandom: harry potter, harmonians, jkr doesn't know harry potter like i do, my dream wedding destroyed, person: jkr, potter fandom will not be outwanked!, she admitted it!, this is the wank that never ends, too many fucking tags, troll

These things really do go in cycles...
c/p'd from Mousie's hard work:

Emma Watson is guest editing a British magazine that comes out on Thursday.

In it, supposedly JK Rowling shares her regret for making a certain pairing canon over another one.

Nowadays she admits she got it wrong - she should have shipped Harry / Hermione.

ONTD jumps on the bandwagon first with predictable splooge. 2600+ comments and gong. Wank_report anonymouse captured their favorites:

Ron's an asshole! No, Hermione's abusive!
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993729787#t14993729787

"harry's long fat DADA dick BELONGED in hermione's BEAUTIFUL GENIUS MUGGLEBORN COOCH AND THE FANFIC PROVES IT"
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993646843#t14993646843

When people don't like ron it's because he's too poor and working class!
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993204731#t14993204731

Someone mentions Hermione/Draco, spawning a thread about whether Draco is an irredeemable racist. Bonus: passive-aggressive use of "gurl". I guess it's the new "sweetie"? http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993142779#t14993142779

In response to the same Dramione thread, Godwin's Law is invoked! http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993602043#t14993602043

I'm...not even sure what's happening in this thread. But I know I can't look away.
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/85367803.html?thread=14993803259#t14993803259

That's just from the first few pages.

Meanwhile, on Tumblr...

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FU****IN KIDDING ME JK ROWLING YOU REGRET THE THING I BASE MY LIFE ON LIKE JESUS CHRIST YOU MIGHT AS WELL TELL ME THAT I AM ADOPTED
http://ronaldweasley-is-a-father.tumblr.com/post/75318975049/you-have-got-to-be-fu-in-kidding-me-jk-rowling

Dear J. Rowling, If you ever dare to say that Ron wasn’t good enough for anybody I’d be so done.
http://nightinglock.tumblr.com/post/75318100681/dear-j-rowling-if-you-ever-dare-to-say-that

I DON’T WANT TO BASH ANYONE’S SHIP OR ANYTHING, BUT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I’M CAPABLE OF TAKING.
http://dragonprincessofkeys.tumblr.com/post/75317489747/im-sorry-but-im-not-having-none-of-j-k

reasons why im sad and confused by this bombshell
http://coldnessoflove.tumblr.com/post/75315357947/reasons-why-im-sad-and-confused-by-this-bombshell

For fun nostalgia points, Heidi's excited too:
http://heidi8.livejournal.com/1307412.html?style=mine#comments

And for unfunny nostalgia points, so's Andy Blake (who would like to tell you all about his own magnum opus):
http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/75346872233/your-post-about-ron-and-hermiones-relationship-made-me

The actual article is slated to come out on Thursday. Prepare yourselves for the Second Coming...

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	yoritomo_reiko 2014-02-02 01:57 pm UTC (link)
	You see, the way I read it, she's not even saying she should have shipped Harry/Hermione. She's saying the way she wrote the story leaned more that direction. On the other hand, I really do prefer Hermione and Ron. The amount of tropes subverted were awesome. (Also, I still can't see where anybody gets Harry and Hermione from. But, you know, whatever.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

chez_moi
2014-02-02 02:08 pm UTC (link)

I'm not sure R/H would have worked out long-term, but H/Hr makes even less sense, as they never displayed the barest hint of attraction to each other despite being hormone-riddled teens. Harry's relationship with Hermione always reminded me of me and my brother - different approaches and driving each other up the wall sometimes, but still sharing a deep familial love that will always be a constant in your life.

In my opinion, all the trio's relationships with each other were much more meaningful as friendships anyway.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2014-02-02 08:26 pm UTC (link)

Right? Even if Ron and Hermione wouldn't work out (which I don't think is true, I just think there was a huge chunk of DH where Ron wasn't there that makes the Harry/Hermione relationship look a little played up), Harry and Hermione just… are not into each other at all and never, ever behaved as if they were. I mean, ever. They are very close friends who need each other in their lives but have no romantic interest.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

soc_puppet
2014-02-02 09:22 pm UTC (link)

Closest thing I remember was that kiss on the cheek from the end of Goblet of Fire. That could easily be one of the following:

* A friendly/family-ish kiss
* Hermione trying to sort out her feelings towards Harry/her feelings in general and using the scientific method to figure it out ("I kissed him and it didn't make me tingle all over, therefore I only have friendly feelings towards him" or similar)
* Me remembering completely wrong

(Reply to this)(Parent)

	iczer6 2014-02-03 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	What stuck out to me was in I think the fourth book where Harry is genuinely shocked at the idea people though he and Hermione were a couple. Like it never even occurred to him until someone pointed it out, and even then he couldn't believe it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pyratejenni 2014-02-02 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, JKR would have to have written more build-up for H/Hr, like the hints she did with R/Hr. And damn, were they hints: I didn't notice Ron balling up his fists to punch Malfoy when he hoped that Hermione would die next in CoS, while Harry was just standing there pretending to be Crabbe (or Goyle). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pyratejenni 2014-02-02 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Blarg. On the second read-through of the series, I mean. >. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bella_black 2014-02-03 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	I can kind of see how someone could read attraction on Hermione's side, but it's pretty unambiguously friendship only on Harry's, IMO. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2014-02-03 07:01 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that's exactly what she said. The way some people are talking, though, you'd think she'd shot their dogs and punched their mothers. It's just literary wank, ffs. I liked the way Harry and Hermione had a sort of sympatico in action situations. They did it for me. Dunno why. shrugs (Reply to this)(Parent)

	coffee_mug 2014-02-03 10:46 am UTC (link)
	I kind of read it as saying she doesn't think R/Hr will work out as the happiest most perfect couple ever, or even a very functional one, which I suppose is fair enough. I think she should've overall questioned her choice in making everybody "together forever" types of couples, since very rarely in real life do people settle down for good at age 17. (Reply to this)(Parent)

kumquat_of_doom
2014-02-03 11:13 pm UTC (link)

Hermione and Ron together always reminded me of my parents' dynamic: mam is hyper-organised and book-obsessed with a tendency to over-react, my father is laid-back and lazy and sociable.

They got together at eighteen/nineteen (in college), married at twenty/twenty-one, and have been married (and squabbling) for thirty-seven years and counting.

So yeah, it can work.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yoritomo_reiko 2014-02-03 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	...I've just realized that Ron basically married his mother. Which is kind of what they say guys do. Or look for, at least. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2014-02-03 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	Yep! His mam doesn't have Hermione's ambition, or drive to change the world. But Hermione and Molly have a lot more in common than they lack. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Read comments) -