The thing to note here, of course, is that Harry, the protagonist, is actually a female hero in the way his sexual introspection and romantic life plays out. In other words, Rowling lacks the power of imagination to put herself in male shoes and try to understand male sexuality. No sixteen-year-old boy is ever “confused” about his attraction to a girl, but Harry is. When Harry, as the sixteen year old captain of a winning sports team, stands there dumbfounded and surprised as his sassy, outgoing love interest grabs him and kisses him in the middle of a victory party, Rowling is actually doing damage to her impressionable young male readers. In real life, Harry, a chad jock at the highest status he’s ever been, would grab the girl he liked and kiss her, and she would like it, and he would carry her off to a private room as soon as no one was looking. That’s normal human sexuality.
Rowling tells us that men should act like women, and passively wait around for the girls they like to decide to act like high status men and jump their bones. This makes men frustrated and angry, because if you want a woman to actually jump your bones, you have to sexually tease and torment her until she can’t stand it, which is quite the opposite of a fifteen-year-old man brooding because he can’t understand the feeling of sexual jealousy, which Harry does. If you read Harry as a female protagonist in a romance novel, however, you get great insights into female sexuality. Harry doesn’t notice girls until they pay attention in some small way towards him. But not too much, because he is turned off by Ginny’s thirsty little girl crush until Ginny becomes more aloof and starts fucking other men. He is disgusted when Cho Chang breaks down crying on their date, because a girl would be disgusted in the same way by a man doing it, because Rowling is disgusted by it. Whereas when a man sees a girl display this vulnerability, the protecc instinct starts to fire up. Harry is a cuck, because he doesn’t start getting really interested in a girl until he becomes jealous of said girl fucking another man. But this is in game terms called preselection, and it’s how female sexuality works. Hermione, on the other hand, is Harry’s friendzoned beta orbiter.
