[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Marked boy

[Melissa Frankfother]

No: HPFGUIDX 63715



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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "happyduck1979" <swirskyr at r...>
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> > Just a thought, but who is to say thatHarry is the marked boy?
> > Neville may not be marked on his forhead, but he certainly bears
> > emotional scars that run just as deep.  Could he still be the
> > fullfillment of the prophesy?
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> I believe both Harry and Neville are somehow necessary.  Of course, the
> TBAYers are going to kill me for this, since the idea comes from a
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> different book by a different author so here goes:
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> I read a book called "Child of the Prophecy" by Juliet Marillier a few
years
> ago, and there is a prophecy that the one to save the day will be someone
> with "the mark of the raven".  There is a young man, a talented leader,
who
> has a raven tattooed on his face, and everybody thinks it's him.  There is
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> a young woman, whom nobody thinks is good for much, who has a scar from
> having been bitten by a raven when she was a kid.   And as it turns out,
BOTH
> of them are the child of the prophecy, and each of them has something
> important to do in order to save the world, etc.
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> So, I agree with you.  I believe Neville is also marked in some way that
> nobody knows about.  And that the prophecy pertains to both boys.  I think
> each of them will have to do something important to beat Voldemort.  JKR
> wouldn't even have had Neville born at the right time, and mentioned in
> relation to the prophecy, unless it's going to become relevant later.
Just my
> opinion, and with the caveat that I'm an enormous Neville fan.
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> Kelly L.
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I completely agree. w/ this.  I know that many people believe that it's got
to be Harry, and I do believe he has a very important part to play in the
prophecy, but we've all seen that JKR usually has a "method to her madness."
;-)  I just have a hard time believing that Neville was mentioned as a
possibility in the prophecy for no reason.  I feel that he's going to be
important part of the prophecy in some way.

The parallel to the book you mentioned is very intersting.

MellyF