This one really set the Crookshanks among the pigeons, and sparked a media frenzy after being published on the front page of The Sunday Times. In an interview with Emma Watson for Wonderland magazine in February 2014, Rowling said: "I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfilment. That’s how it was conceived, really. 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.