Why did JKR not explore H/Hr as canon?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 168696

Nirjhar Jain:
> I am baffled as to the reason why Jo Rowling did not explore H/Hr as a
> ship?
> 

Pippin:
IMO, because JKR wants the main passion in Harry's life to be the
saving people thing. Hermione, who wants to be first at everything
she does, would never stand for that. :) 

Nirjhar:
> Hermione is Harry's equal intellectually. She stands upto him. She is
> not overawed by him.

Pippin:
Harry is an 'E' student who got one 'O'. Hermione is an 'O' student
who got one 'E'. If you are looking for intellectual equals in the
current cast, I'm afraid there's only Snape and Voldemort to choose
from. Fortunately, Hermione has Fleur's example in front of her --
she's smart enough for any two people, just as Fleur is pretty
enough.

JKR's clearly more interested in couples who complement each
other than in couples matched strength for strength. Ron's
always had more physical courage than Hermione. He hasn't
had much chance to show it since, but I don't think JKR means for
the chess game in PS/SS to be his finest hour. 

Ron also has more emotional intelligence. Granted he can be
extremely offensive, but the thing is, he usually *knows* when
he's being offensive, unlike Hermione whose unwitting tactlessness
is something she'll probably always have to struggle with, though
she's getting better. 

I also think Ron gets Hermione's concern for social justice
more than Harry does. He's the one who volunteers to help
her with Hagrid's defense, and the one who takes her ideas
about trying to free the House Elves seriously even though
he disagrees with them.

I don't think Ginny's personality was 'enhanced.' I thought from
the moment she appeared on the platform in Book One that 
she had been created to captivate Harry when the time came,
and that JKR would deliberately find ways to keep Harry
(and inattentive readers) from noticing her charms until the
time had come. 


But even in CoS we saw her challenge an older student with a 
mean reputation when she could only just have gotten a wand,
we were told that  shyness was not her normal personality and she
had the temerity to tell a flat out lie to Dumbledore's face.
It was enough to convince this reader anyway that the reason 
Molly was holding Ginny's hand in PS/SS was not that 
Ginny was unusually insecure for a ten year old but because
Molly didn't want her stowing away on the Hogwarts Express.

Pippin