During an interview with with Wonderland magazine, Rowling stated that, “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” going on to state they ended up together “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 … The attraction itself is plausible but the combative side of it … I’m not sure you could have got over that in an adult relationship, there was too much fundamental incompatibility.”