According to Mental Floss, Rowling said that Hermione and Ron are equally matched and good for each other because of their personalities. She said, “[They] are drawn to each other because they balance each other out.
Even though Hermione was in love with Ron at this point, she still refused to leave Harry's side. It killed her inside to do so, but her inherent duty toward Harry was far stronger than anything else.
Hermione sees Harry as only a friend so she has no trouble hugging him. The same is not true of Ron who she has stronger, unacknowledged feelings for. She doesn't want to hug him for fear it will become immediately and plainly obvious to him and even Harry how she feels about Ron.
Harry is not sexually attracted to Hermione - he never has been. He does acknowledge that she is pretty at the Yule Ball. Hermione even earns a full paragraph describing everything from her hair to her dress to her teeth.
From even the earlier films, we all knew Hermione Granger was meant for Ron Weasley. But before their ultimate expression of love in the final film, Hermione went to the Yule Ball with one of the Triwizard Tournament's champions, Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ianevski), in Goblet of Fire.
Rowling said, “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 ended up with Ron.
But Britain's Sunday Times published excerpts of the interview in a front-page story, “JK admits Hermione should have wed Harry.” “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really,” Rowling says in the interview.
Though Hermione and Ron do end up together at the end of the HP Saga, the acclaimed author has said in several interviews that she considered having Hermione and Draco end up together in the end. Rowling even suggested that Draco bullying Hermione was like adolescent hair pulling on the playground.
Of course not. Or rather, she openly loves Harry as a friend/little brother - but she's got no romantic interest in him at all. She secretly loves Ron, that's canon, and it's quite sad, really, how lots of people still refuse to accept that*.
Ron first began showing signs of romantic interest in Hermione in their second year; he was irritated by her crush on Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, became so angry that Draco Malfoy called her a "Mudblood" that he tried to hex him, and was even more upset than Harry when she became one of the victims of the basilisk.
Ron never apologized openly by saying “sorry". Since the books are Harry's pov, we don't have many apology moments in the books. Even in Gof, when Ron hurt her, it is not outright stated that he apologized. They were simply being civil to each other the next day.
Regardless of his own feelings for Hermione, Ron is also petrified that if Harry and Hermione (the people he cares most about) get together, he will be left with nothing. This causes him to stop trusting them, and this tears their little group apart again. In his anger, Ron decides to leave Harry.
Ron was one of Hermione's best friend and was rude to her and said many horrible things about her date, who she obviously liked. That ruined the evening and that is reason why Hermione cried.
Harry: Better At Defense Against The Dark Arts
In the books, Harry's O.W.L. results for DADA are higher than Hermione's, the only exam in which he outperformed her. His defensive abilities are an asset for the young wizard that gives him an edge over his best friend in combat.
Faced with reality, Draco finally understands his whole life, his whole system of “right and wrong,” is not correct. He was just a manipulated boy. Rowling is adamant that Malfoy didn't deserve a redemption arc because there was never a “heart of gold” underneath his pompous act.
In a recent interview, J.K. Rowling said that Draco had strong positive feelings for Hermoine, and would always have "lingering" feelings. However, due to his upbringing, he was unable to act on those feelings, and instead made fun of her, gaining some attention that way.
Answer 1: In the actual books and movies, Draco never actually had a crush on Hermione.
J.K. Rowling Says Hermione Should Have Ended Up With Harry Potter, Not Ron. Well, everything you thought you knew about love is a lie. Turns out J.K. Rowling thinks she made a huge mistake by pairing Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter novels.
He Didn't Realize He Liked Her Until Way Later
Ron was usually late to the show, and he was late in realizing he had full-on feelings for Hermione as well. He first felt jealousy in Goblet of Fire, but these were misunderstood feelings which he only got to understand by Half-Blood Prince.
Luna Lovegood is certainly an example of someone Ron should have been with. A lovely, interesting, funny, warm and kind-hearted person who would provide Ron with basically no stress.
She breaks up with Dean in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, finally winning the affection of the only boy she has ever loved, Harry. Unfortunately for Ginny, Harry ends their relationship to protect her from Voldemort at the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Before realising that Rita Skeeter and her quill were about as reliable as Peter Pettigrew acting as a Secret Keeper, Mrs Weasley was a fan of her articles, and was outraged on Harry's behalf when she read an article that accused Hermione of playing the field between Harry and Viktor Krum.
Harry started developing a crush on Ginny when seeing her with all those guys. He started seeing her like a girl not his best mate's sis. Ginny moved on from her celebrity crush on Harry but she started developing a normal teen crush on him. I think the fact that they were the captains of the Gryffindor team helped.