Goodreads asked Karen Maitland:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Karen Maitland Thinking about this made me realise how few truly happy couples there are in novels, with the exception of pairs like Ma and Pop Larkin from the Darling Buds of May. Usually, the book ends when we get to the point where the lovers finally get together. We will never know if Cinderella would have finally have got fed up with her husband's foot fetish, or if Romeo, had he lived, would have a middle-age crisis, decided he couldn't take any more aggravation from the in-laws, left Juliet and run off with a good-looking Italian pageboy.

So, I think my favourite couple would have to be Mr and Mrs Weasley from the Harry Potter series. They clearly love each other very deeply, have remained strong and devoted through the most terrible of times, stood shoulder to shoulder to fight the dark forces, and though Molly Weasley gets exasperated with her husband's tinkering with muggle artefacts, she is distraught when she thinks he might be hurt and Arthur Weasley would lay down his life without a moment’s hesitation to protect her. They are not well-off, can never afford anything new, but Molly never complains about that and Arthur fondly admires and wears the awful jumpers and scarves she knits for the family. If that's not true love, I don't know what is.

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