[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville Longbottom and the Prophecy

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 68549

pegruppel <pegruppel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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Peg commented:
After re-reading the prophecy a few times, I was struck by the possibility, based on its phrasing, that it was V who made the choice of which of the two children was to be his enemy.  It was V's *choice* as to which one of the two boys who fit the general outline of prophecy would be his enemy.  He chose by making the attempt on Harry.  If he had attacked Neville, the "backfire" would have had 
> similar effects on V and Neville would have been the "chosen one."  
> > --------------------------
Owlery2003 replied:
Half a mo - if V had attacked Neville, the "backfire" couldn't have been the same - didn't Lilly have something to do with it?
> > 
Dororthy then said:
> 
> Yes, it was Lilly's love/sacrifice that saved him. We don't know (I don't think) if Neville's mother was still sane at the time of the attack on the Potters. My impression is that she was probably not, since the attack on Harry caused Voldemort's downfall I think that most of the atrocities we read about to the previous OoP (and others) happened before this date. She might not have been present for, or capable of, the same type 
of sacrifice if Lord Voldemort had chosen Harry. 
> 
Now Peg again:

Actually, according to the Pensieve scene in GoF (Chapter 30), the Longbottoms were attacked by the Death Eaters *after* Voldemort was banished to Albania . . . In the same chapter, Dumbledore tells Harry: "The attacks on them came *after* Voldemort's fall from power . . ."
So, Alice Longbottom was healthy and in her right mind at the time of the attack on the Potters.  I believe that she'd have made the same sacrifice for Neville that Lily made for Harry.  There are very few women who wouldn't sacrifice themselves for the sake of their own 
children. In fact, after reading the scene in OoP when Alice tries to give a gift to Neville, I'm sure she would have.

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I'll give you the timeline, but saying Alice would have done the same thing as Lilly is like saying two different people at two different times would react to a car crash the exact same way. We don't know anything about Alice's wand or specific magic skills (the charms thing, maybe the switching spell thing), and who knows how Alice would have tried to protect Neville under such circumstances.

Owlery2003




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