O.K. I will admit, maybe I'm being a little hard on Harry. But Harry's supposed to be Voldemort's equal right? And the Sorting hat said, when looking into Harry at the beginning of SS, "and there's talent here, oh my goodness yes." So if he is Voldemort's equal, if he is so talented, and if he is a hero then why isn't he at least as good as Hermione at academics?

I don't expect him to win every fight, I would have been happy if he just scratched Snape a little, and set one inferi on fire. I understand that he's still a very young wizard.

But he's going to fight Voldemort to the death in a year, and pardon me, but he doesn't seem ready for that. A truly great boy wizard would have set maybe one or two inferi aflame before being carried into the water. A truly great boy wizard would have put at least a goose egg bump on Snape's head before being defeated.

He just doesn't seem very heroic to me. He seems more like a wizard of fair to middlin ability whose greatest superpower is to get lucky in every situation.