I never read the books, just saw the movies, by I think JK still wanted him to be perceived as a nerd. He has glasses, he’s the teachers pet (well some of the teachers anyway) he gets bullied, he befriends some of the school nerds. It is in tension with the fact he is an extremely rich sports champ who seems pretty popular with everyone outside of the evil house by the end of Goblet of Fire.
It’s sort of both. He’s a bullied kid who is small and wears glasses, but doesn’t actually do anything nerdy or have any nerdy character traits, then he becomes a jock almost accidentally by discovering a hidden talent for wizard football. So he’s not a “mean jock” who looks down on nerdy kids or tries to be a tough guy or anything, but he also doesn’t have any nerdy traits that could be potentially off-putting to the audience, only surface level aesthetic stuff like wearing glasses and being bullied by his cousin.
But Harry was more of a jock, and not really that nerdy.
I never read the books, just saw the movies, by I think JK still wanted him to be perceived as a nerd. He has glasses, he’s the teachers pet (well some of the teachers anyway) he gets bullied, he befriends some of the school nerds. It is in tension with the fact he is an extremely rich sports champ who seems pretty popular with everyone outside of the evil house by the end of Goblet of Fire.
It’s sort of both. He’s a bullied kid who is small and wears glasses, but doesn’t actually do anything nerdy or have any nerdy character traits, then he becomes a jock almost accidentally by discovering a hidden talent for wizard football. So he’s not a “mean jock” who looks down on nerdy kids or tries to be a tough guy or anything, but he also doesn’t have any nerdy traits that could be potentially off-putting to the audience, only surface level aesthetic stuff like wearing glasses and being bullied by his cousin.
He had glasses.