[HPforGrownups] Anti Neville being "The One"

[Vella, Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 73010

Maritza said:
>2. If while I'm reading book 7, and Neville is the one to conquer 
>Voldemort, I will be sorely disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I like 
>Neville, but the series is called Harry Potter for a reason. Why 
>spend seven books putting our hero through so much crap, and then 
>decide it's someone else's destiny to do the 'greatest deed' in the 
>end. 

In a way, having Harry kill Voldemort will be putting him through more crap.  The Wizarding World hasn't accepted him as a person, only as an icon.  That's why they can love him one minute, and call him a nutter the next.

Whenever Harry meets someone, he notices how their eyes always seek out the scar on his forehead.  I suspect that he thinks that they don't think of him as "Harry", but instead they think of him as "THE Harry Potter".  Harry, who has been starved of love, doesn't want this kind of attention, he wants intimacy.

If Neville were to have the ultimate triumph over Voldemort, Harry might finally get the anonymity he wants.

Cathubodva.


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