Hindsight is 20/20, but it's a little disconcerting to Harry Potter fans to hear JK Rowling suggest that the Ron and Hermione relationship was a bad idea.
Hermione Should Have Married Harry Potter, Rowling Admits
February 2, 2014

Via AFP:

After years of squabbling, Harry Potter's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger finally became an item -- but now their creator JK Rowling has admitted she made a mistake by marrying them off.

Hermione -- whose quick wits get the teen wizards out of many a scrape in Rowling's hit novels -- would have been better off with hero Harry, the British author said in comments published by the Sunday Times newspaper.

In fact, Ron and Hermione would likely have ended up in marriage counselling, Rowling suggested.

"For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to ...

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