Apparently JK Rowling said she was originally gonna have Dean and Seamus become a couple but it would take too much attention away from Ron Hermione and Harry. Did you know that and how do you feel about it?

themischiefmanagers:

We did know that and we think that is clearly a bad excuse for either:

1) not having come up with the idea of Dean/Seamus as a couple until after publishing
or
2) not thinking that non-hetero relationships were necessary to include in her story.

Because by the time that the final books were written, she had enough cultural influence that including non-hetero characters would not have lost her many readers. And most skilled authors can write secondary couple’s romance into their story without taking focus from the main characters and plot, as long as they actually think of them in time to include them and see their inclusion as necessary (which non-hetero representation in the most influential youth-novels of a generation definitely is!). So that explanation simply sounds like an excuse to us.