Replay

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 85220


Blueangel wrote in post #85185:
> I found the prophecy a bit of a let down. Especially without 
> knowing how or why the Potter defied Voldemort or why he chose 
> Harry not Neville.

 
Berit wrote, in post #85028:
> But we do know why he chose Harry rather than Neville. Dumbledore's 
> words in OoP: "He saw himself in you before he had even seen you."
 

Bohcoo adds, from post #78003:
>From "Movie Magic, Life Story" magazine, Deluxe Collector's Edition,
an article entitled, "Creating Harry," "Exploring Themes:"

JKR: "I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take
what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put
them on someone else and then try and destroy the other. That's what
Voldemort does."

OOP, ch. 37, page 842, American edition:
Dumbledore speaking to Harry:
"And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which,
according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or
knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you
before he had ever seen you."


When Voldemort marked Harry as his "equal" it was in everything
loathsome he saw in himself. With all these abhorrent qualities about
himself projected onto Harry, in his mind, Voldemort stands a chance
of destroying them by destroying Harry.

Now Neville, on the other hand, represents everything Voldemort
WANTS: Pureblood status and what sounds like a large, tightly-knit,
loving family. Why destroy a representation of that?

I sense another of Lord Thingy's infamous, "But, alas, I
declare myself mistaken, I have made a mistake. . ." speeches, don't
you?

Bohcoo