ESTP is the worst read for Harry Potter I've ever heard...obviously, obviously, obviously ISFP. Wtf are you people thinking?
According to what? You?
Impulsive streak, sure, that's P, fine. But keeping a cool head in stressful situations is in no way associated with T above F. That's simply Se being quickly adaptable and responsive to its immediate surroundings, trusting its instincts.
That's not how Se is defined. Se is defined as attentiveness to detail and one's surroundings. Many Se-dom and Se-auxiliary people are indeed far,
far from cool-headed. Jocks who shove nerds into lockers (Who are mostly Se-Ti or Ti-Se) jump to mind.
He dumps Ginny because he feels a moral obligation to keep her out of the danger that would come with her constantly being around him. Virtually all of Harry's reasoning in every single situation throughout the entire series is based on his strong sense of personal ethics based on how he personally feels about what's going on. He's classic SFP: Look into your heart to know what's right, then act on your gut feelings about what seems like the best course of action at the current moment.
Yes, he dumped her because he would put her in danger, based on a rational analysis of the situation fueled by Fe motivation; thinking underpinned by Fe, which Harry oozes out of the pores (his whole goddamn motivation is saving the world, even his friends have noted it). A higher Fi user would not have dumped his girl to go gallivanting off to save the world, he would have taken his girlfriend and his friends away from danger. That's what I'd have done, being myself an Fi-aux.
And then to put the final nail in the coffin, let's assume that he
is Fi. By your own observations his Thinking function is too prominently displayed to be inferior, and he shows little, if any, Ni; thus making him Se Fi Te Ni, as opposed to Fi Se Ni Te. ESFP rather than ISFP. If I'm wrong (and I'm not) then that still doesn't make you (ot the other ten thousand people who think he's ISFP) right.
You lose.
Harry shows virtually zero Ti throughout the entire series, and the only "ESTP" characteristics he has are Se ones that are common among all SP types.
His prowess in Defense Against the Dark Arts is quite Ti-driven. He's very good at mastering hexes, counterspells and the like. Ti is less visible because it plays a supporting role to his Se attentiveness (He's Se-dom rather than Se-aux), but it's there.
He's depressed when he's at the Dursleys' because the Dursleys are fucking pricks, not because he's an extrovert.
Putting the cart before the horse. My argument is not that that proves extroversion, but rather that it does nothing to
disprove it.
He enjoys being around a few close friends, but is clearly uncomfortable with large crowds and being around new people. He's shy as all hell around girls he's interested in and he rarely speaks up at all except when his strong personal morals have been violated (blatantly Fi.)
Shyness isn't a sign of introversion, it's simply a sign of fear of rejection. Extroverts can be shy, and they quite commonly are. Harry is actually quite readily sociable despite his shyness.
He hates being in the public eye and despises all the constant attention he gets from the life of fame that he never asked for.
Okay. One minute he's just some poor orphan kid who lives with his idiot aunt and uncle. The next he's some celebrity with annoying camera-carrying kids constantly pestering him and everyone knowing his name. Wouldn't anyone be a bit... erm... weirded out by that? Especially if you're famous because your parents died, and you supposedly have some sort of destiny that you don't think you can live up to?