Are all Harry Potter main characters ASD?

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Luna Lovegood is an Aspie.

Maybe Hermione has AS. I think she might have, actually.

You sound a bit odd. I'm a bit odd! But NUTS!?!? NAH!

Luna is the only one who comes across as aspie to be honest.

Potter and Weasly certainly aren't, Hermione is just a geek...why would she be aspie? Aspies wouldn't show off in class from my experience.. Snape doesn't seem aspergers either, just unpopular.

Dobby is OCD.

It's easy to see Aspie traits in fictional characters, because fictional characters are usually exaggerated and influenced by certain stereotypes that we might think of as being 'Aspie'. Any character who is smart/eccentric/a loner etc is easy to identify with by their most defining trait, and it's comforting to think that they're 'like us' in that way. But if you look closer, they're really not any more 'Aspie' than any other smart/eccentric/loner person. It's easy to see 'it' everywhere even where it's not.

WOW, you have a point there! Yeah, I never did. (Except the time a teacher claimed to know EVERYTHING, claimed she was teaching lots of other subjects, and *I* knew enough about the subjects that were ALL interests of mine, that I knew she was 100% WRONG! I kept telling her, in front of the class, that she was WRONG!)

As for Geek, ever look at the comparison between a geek and an aspie!?!?!?

It's a bit of an old wives tale that all aspies are geeks.

I know more normal geeks.

Also, aspies may be geeky, but more often than not, geeks aren't aspie.

All of these people are unconventional, as is JK Rowling, but I don't see any ASD-ness. Luna is a typical second generation New Ager. When your parents are already like that, there's no hope! And the weirdness of New Age stuff is as likely to be from being gifted as from anything else. Some people's minds overfunction.

But they're great characters! Just because we're on the spectrum and we identify with them doesn't mean they're on the spectrum, too. After all, we're more than just ASD ourselves. We're ASD and so many other wonderful things.

I'd go with Neville Longbottom for sure.

I think it's really that the main characters are just very similar to each other (the good guys, that is) so if you pick them apart, you see aspie traits in all of them, but out of the kids, Neville is the only one who's ever struck me as being on the spectrum.