Furthering that, ya Harry was the boy who lived, but how often did every single person in the school turn against him for something he didn’t do, including his best friend? He was always an outcast, his childhood of course influenced this because I definitely think he had a hard time interacting with people normally for a long time, and he didn’t know a lot about the way the Wizarding World worked, but celebrities are always outcasts when put smack dab in the middle of regualar society. People might be nice to them, but they don’t know them, they think they know them because the gossip rags and magazines publish every aspect of their lives, but it’s out of context, and sometimes not even true, and it’s ridiculous to think that Harry was ever wholly part of the world. Some people in griffyndor, Luna, Cedric, maybe even cho, were some of the only people who didn’t view him as the boy who lived, the child that was supposed to be their saviour, but just as Harry, and 11,12,13,14,15 year old boy who was just as flummoxed and even more broken then they were.
I think that a major part of this is that Dumbledore left this whole mystery around him, you talked about the impact growing up without magic had on Harry, but what about the Wizarding World as a whole? Some people thought he was a child’s bedtime story, he’d been missing for 10 years no one had any idea where he was or if he was even alive, if. He ever even existed. Now imagine if he’d grown up normally, gone to Wizarding elementary school, or had a tutor, made friends with the other pure and halfblooded children. He would have been just Harry, even if he had this amazing past everyone would have seen how normal a child he was, no one would have had the chance to hype home up to be this all powerful boy hero.
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