{"id":10087,"date":"2014-02-02T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:49:21","slug":"harry-potter-should-have-married-hermione-admits-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2014\/02\/02\/harry-potter-should-have-married-hermione-admits-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter should have married Hermione, admits J K Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/02\/showbiz\/rowling-hermione-ron-revelation\/\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/harry-should-have-married-hermione-says-j-k-rowling-9102110.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione-489x367.jpg\" alt=\"Harry, Hermione and Ron\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione-489x367.jpg 489w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Harry-and-Hermione.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow at this point I could be saying &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; because I said <a href=\"\/fun\/2007\/07\/15\/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix\/\">something similar<\/a> when reviewing one of the movies. (I was deliberately watching the movies while not reading the books.)<\/p>\n<p>Obviously Harry and Hermione are the best matches in terms of intelligence, ability and good looks. From a storytelling standpoint its always more satisfactory when the prince marries the princess.<\/p>\n<p>However just to be contrary I&#8217;m going to offer some reasons why the canonical ending might be better, at least from Hermione&#8217;s standpoint:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Harry might make a bad husband.<\/strong> He&#8217;s moody and self-centered. He&#8217;s a celebrity bound to be pursued by groupies. And he grew up in a dysfunctional family from which he probably absorbed all sorts of bad patterns. He might make a good partner someday but he&#8217;ll probably have to go through at least one failed marriage first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They&#8217;re both Type A personalities,<\/strong> hard-driven and high-achieving. It would be hard for Hermione to be #2 in the relationship but that&#8217;s what she would have to settle for. She might be happier with a goodhearted hard-working guy who&#8217;s a bit dim but worships her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via CNN and The Independent. Now at this point I could be saying &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; because I said something similar when reviewing one of the movies. (I was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2014\/02\/02\/harry-potter-should-have-married-hermione-admits-j-k-rowling\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-movies","tag-harry-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}