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I believe that. My first-pass filter for theories of why some people think SIAI is "arrogant" is whether the theory also explains, in equal quantity, why those same people find Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres to be an unbearably snotty little kid or whatever. If the theory is specialized to SIAI and doesn't explain the large quantities of similar-sounding vitriol gotten by a character in a fanfiction in a widely different situation who happens to be written by the same author, then in all honesty I write it off pretty quickly. I wouldn't mind understanding this better, but I'm looking for the detailed mechanics of the instinctive sub-second ick reaction experienced by a certain fraction of the population, not the verbal reasons they reach for afterward when they have to come up with a serious-sounding justification. I don't believe it, frankly, any more than I believe that someone actually hates hates hates Methods because "Professor McGonagall is acting out of character".
I acquired my aversion to modesty before reading your stuff, and I seem to identify that "thing", whatever it is shared by you and Harry, as "awesome" rather than "arrogant".
You're acting too big for your britches. You can't save the world; you're not Superman. Harry can't invent new spells; he's just a student. The proper response to that sort of criticism is to ignore it and (save the world / invent new spells) anyway. I don't think there really is a way to make it go away without actually diminishing your ability to do awesome stuff.