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Weapons have been drawn among Harry Potter fans after JK Rowlingmade the surprise admission that she shouldn't have paired Hermione with Ron Weasley in her bestselling series of books about teenage wizardry.

The author told the magazine Wonderland that she "wrote the Hermione-Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfilment", and that "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". Speaking to Hermione actress Emma Watson, who was guest-editing the magazine, Rowling also predicted that the pair would have needed relationship counselling. 

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