Hogwarts Legacy has inspired another read through the books
I use to think that Harry was just brawn and courage while Hermione was the real brains.
But on another read through, I've realised Harry actually is a lot cleverer than I thought. There are many times he figures things out, comes out with ideas that are actually quite incredible that Hermione never came up with. Makes some astute observations and deductions that denote very high intelligence, and cracks some difficult puzzles no one else can do purely on intuition and cleverness rather than knowledge..
Some of it is nothing short of genius. It's just that the narrative never says it out loud. You dont hear people commenting on how clever Harry is, but actually he does a lot of brilliant things .
It's knowledge he didnt have much of compared to Hermione, not intelligence capacity or quotient. His grades that arent that great, but then all those restrictions living at the Dursleys and the things he goes through, he just never has half the study time Hermione has and always had more trouble, not to mention Quidditch