J.K. Rowling on Ron/Hermione
Barnes & Noble.com, October 20th, 2000
Q- Is it just me, or was something going on between Ron and Hermione during the last half of Goblet of Fire? I love your books, by the way, and two of them I've read straight through cover to cover in under 24 hours.
A- Well done on the reading speed! Yes, something's "going on," but Ron doesn't realize it yet. Typical boy.
From J.K on Hermione
BBC Online Chat
Q-Does Hermione like Ron as more than a friend?
A-The answer to that is in Goblet of Fire!
From MuggleNet
National Press Club Luncheon, October 1999
"Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink." - J.K Rowling
Interview with Daniel, Emma and Rupert; October 22nd, 2002
Dateline Interview, June 20th, 2003
Couric:Any snogging with Hermione?
Rowling:Harry and Hermione? You think so? Ron and Hermione. There's tension there.
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Edinburgh Book Festival, August 15th, 2004
Audience member:Will Ron and Hermione ever get together?
JKR: Well? [Laughs] What do you think?
Audience member: I think they will.
JKR: I'm not going to say. I can't say, can I? I think that, by now, I've given quite a lot of clues on the subject. That is all I'm going to say. You're going to have to read between the lines on that one.
JKRowling.com, April 16th, 2005
"I've also heard a whisper about Ron and Hermione's son time-travelling, so I shall go further and tell you that NONE of the characters in the books have returned from the future. As for the idea of Ron and Hermione having a son... (chuckles as the distant roars of a million shippers reach my ears, all cursing me to eternity of unsatisfied curiosity)."
World Book Day, 2004
What happened between Hermione and Viktor Krum during the summer?
JK Rowling: Ron would like to know that, too.
MuggleNet and The Leaky Cauldron interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling, July 16th, 2005
JKR: I will say, that yes, I personally feel - well it's going to be clear once people have read book six. I mean, that’s it. It’s done, isn’t it? We know. Yes, we do now know that it's Ron and Hermione. I do feel that I have dropped heavy -
[All crack up]
JKR: - hints. ANVIL-sized, actually, hints, prior to this point. I certainly think even if subtle clues hadn't been picked up by the end of "Azkaban," that by the time we hit Krum in Goblet...
To read the entire interview go here.
"An Evening with Harry, Carrie, and Garp," a charity reading by JK Rowling, Stephen King, and John Irving
When asked what Hermione would see in the Mirror of Erised, JKR replied that at the moment, Hermione would "see [Harry, Ron, and herself] alive and unscathed and Voldemort finished, and would also see herself closely entwined… with… another… person,"
-From The Quibbler
[Gillian: Ha! Who could that be? [/sarcasm], Kelli: It's like she's restraining herself hard from just screaming out, "It's RON, people!!]