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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...

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_morrigan_
2014-02-03 07:50 am UTC (link)

Harry/Ginny always felt more forced to me than Hermione/Ron did. I didn't see them as incompatible, just that the run up to it felt way too sudden.

This is my exact problem with Harry/Ginny. Harry/Ginny was always the one that felt like it was happening because that's how JKR planned it from the start, and that's it.

At least with Ron and Hermione we got to see them interact and their relationship grow from book one steadily on. Which is why I really have no problem with them as a couple, even though I don't really ship them.

But, when she isn't being used in the background to fill out the world, Ginny pretty much disappears for most of the books in the series until the end of book five, and barely interacts with Harry when she does show up. (Even after she supposedly got over her tounge-tied fangirling of him). The hook-up happens in book six, but then what happens? She disappears again for almost all of the final book.

Harry is my favorite character in the series, but I don't think indifference is how I'm supposed to feel about the person he ended up with. But indifferent it pretty much how I feel about Ginny, and Harry's relationship with her.

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taterbird
2014-02-03 05:24 pm UTC (link)

That's very true. I don't care about ships in Harry Potter, but I always got the people who complained that BAM! Unexpected Ginny out of nowhere! I like Ginny as a character (for what we know about her) and I would have liked to see more of her rather than be told about her when she needed to be there. People care about Hermione because she's present in the story from beginning to end, and develops over time. Ginny seems static because she can't be there, and if somebody were shipping characters, I can see how she'd be easy to overlook as a possibility for the main character.

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