Эмма Уотсон и Джоан Роулинг, март 2014 года, интервью журналу Wonderland.

"I thought we should discuss Hermione... I'm sure you've heard this a million times but now that you have written the books, do you have a new perspective on how you relate to Hermione and the relationship you have with her or had with her?

I know that Hermione is incredibly recognisable to a lot of readers and yet you don't see a lot of Hermiones in film or on TV except to be laughed at. I mean that the intense, clever, in some ways not terribly self-aware, girl is rarely the heroine and I really wanted her to be the heroine. She is part of me, although she is not wholly me. I think that is how I might have appeared to people when I was younger, but that is not really how I was inside.
What I will say is that I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. 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 with Ron.

Ah.

I know, I'm sorry, I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I'm absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people's hearts by saying this? I hope not.

I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.

Yes exactly.

And vice versa.

It was a young relationship. I think 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. I can't believe we are saying all of this – this is Potter heresy!

I know, it is heresy.

In some ways Hermione and Harry are a better fit and I'll tell you something very strange. When I wrote Hallows, I felt this quite strongly when I had Hermione and Harry together in the tent! I hadn't told [Steve] Kloves that and when he wrote the script he felt exactly the same thing at exactly the same point.

That is just so interesting because when I was doing the scene I said to David [Heyman]: "This isn't in the book, she didn't write this". I'm not sure I am comfortable insinuating something however subtle it is!

Yes, but David and Steve – they felt what I felt when writing it.

That is so strange.

And actually I liked that scene in the film, because it was articulating something I hadn't said but I had felt. I really liked it and I thought that it was right. I think you do feel the ghost of what could have been in that scene.

It's a really haunting scene. It's funny because it really divided people. Some people loved that scene and some people really didn't.

Yes, some people utterly hated it. But that is true of so many really good scenes in books and films; they evoke that strong positive/negative feeling. I was fine with it, I liked it.

I remember really loving shooting those scenes that don't have any dialogue, where you are just kind of trying to express a moment in time and a feeling without saying anything. It was just Dan and I spontaneously sort of trying to convey an idea and it was really fun.

And you got it perfectly, you got perfectly the sort of mixture of awkwardness and genuine emotion, because it teeters on the edge of "what are we doing? Oh come on let's do it anyway", which I thought was just right for that time.

I think it was just the sense that in the moment they needed to be together and be kids and raise each other's morale.

That is just it, you are so right. All this says something very powerful about the character of Hermione as well. Hermione was the one that stuck with Harry all the way through that last installment, that very last part of the adventure. It wasn't Ron, which also says something very powerful about Ron. He was injured in a way, in his self-esteem, from the start of the series. He always knew he came second to fourth best, and then had to make friends with the hero of it all and that's a hell of a position to be in, eternally overshadowed. So Ron had to act out in that way at some point.
But Hermione's always there for Harry. I remember you sent me a note after you read Hallows and before you started shooting, and said something about that, because it was Hermione's journey as much as Harry's at the end.

I completely agree and the fact that they were true equals and the fact that she really said goodbye to her family makes it her sacrifice too.

Yes, her sacrifice was massive, completely. A very calculated act of bravery. That is not an 'in the moment' act of bravery where emotion carries you through, that is a deliberate choice.

Exactly.

I love Hermione.

I love her too.

Oh, maybe she and Ron will be alright with a bit of counseling, you know. I wonder what happens at wizard marriage counseling? They'll probably be fine. He needs to work on his self-esteem issues and she needs to work on being a little less critical."
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В интервью журналу Wonderland Роулинг рассказала, что лучше было бы, если бы в финале книги Гермиона и Гарри Поттер были вместе. Помимо этого писательница предположила, что в результате отношения Рона и Гермионы закончились тем, что им пришлось бы обратиться к семейному психологу. По словам Джоан Роулинг, Гермиона осталась с Роном «по причинам, имеющим мало общего с литературой». Роулинг также извинилась перед фанатами серии книг о знаменитом волшебнике. Тем не менее она добавила, что «сделала этот выбор по личным причинам». Сообщается, что в интервью принимала участие актриса Эмма Уотсон, которая сыграла роль Гермионы Грейнджер в саге о школе волшебства. Уотсон рассказала, что разделяет мнение Джоан Роулинг. «Я думаю, многие фанаты также понимают это и спрашивают: действительно ли Рон мог сделать ее счастливой?» — считает актриса.

>>602225

>небольшая выдержка про сраньё в хогварце

Вот как устроена эта деликатная тема в мире магов:
1. Как это было до сантехники (Официальный канон от Роулинг)
До XVIII века волшебники вообще не парились по поводу туалетов, кабин и канализации. Согласно официальному заявлению Роулинг на сайте Pottermore, маги испражнялись прямо там, где стояли — посреди коридора, на уроке или в гостиной.
А затем они просто взмахивали палочкой и применяли заклинание исчезновения («Эванеско»), чтобы уничтожить улики. То есть вы стоите, разговариваете с Салазаром Слизерином, он прямо под мантию делает свои дела, говорит «Эванеско» — и всё чисто. Взрослый читатель сразу понимает, какой проёб здесь кроется:
• Во-первых, это выглядит как полный шизофренический бред.
• Во-вторых, дети до 11 лет вообще не умеют колдовать, а заклинание исчезновения проходят только на пятом курсе. Что делала школота первые четыре года? Драила коридоры? Видимо, поэтому Филч и его предки так люто ненавидели детей.
2. Как обстоят дела во времена Гарри Поттера
В XVIII веке маги все-таки подсмотрели у маглов идею канализации и построили в Хогвартсе нормальные туалеты с унитазами, трубами и раковинами (в одном из таких туалетов как раз жила Плакса Миртл и находился вход в Тайную комнату).
Но и тут не обошлось без магии:
• Вытирание жоп: Бумагу они использовали обычную, но ленивые старшекурсники наверняка использовали какое-нибудь бытовое очищающее заклинание (вроде «Тергео» или «Экскуро», которые убирают грязь), чтобы вообще не марать руки. Главное — не перепутать заклинание, а то можно нечаянно применить Диффиндо (расщепляющее) и остаться без половины филейной части.
• Канализация: Всё это добро сливалось по трубам в подземелья. Но так как очистных сооружений у магов нет, всю эту гигантскую массу отходов жизнедеятельности сотен подростков, скорее всего, утилизировали те самые домашние эльфы на кухне и в подвалах с помощью магии исчезновения, или всё это просто сливалось в Черное озеро на радость гигантскому кальмару и русалкам.
Так что, с какой стороны ни посмотри, туалетная тема в Хогвартсе — это либо гигиенический кошмар средневековья, либо очередная недодуманная Роулинг система, которая держалась на честном слове и рабском труде домовиков.