Neville and the Prophecy

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108373

DuffyPoo:

"My theory is that LV did not *choose* HP at this moment at all.  He was going to kill both kids.  <snip> LV didn't make the choice not to attack Neville he didn't have the chance to attack him.  <snip> Lily's sacrifice for Harry *vanquished* LV.  It really had nothing to do with Harry Potter whatever."

 
Marte
"This is all very well, but LV still marked HP when he attacked him first.  It might have been NL if VL had done him first, *but he didn't!*  It just a waiste of time writitng a series of seven books about our hero, just to find out that he's not!  I don't think JKR would do that to us. I'm that naive..."


DuffyPoo:

LV may have 'marked' HP but not 'as his equal.' (my theory)

I don't have a problem at all with fnding out Harry Potter isn't the one and Neville is.  (or anyone else is for that matter).  It wouldn't change my opinion of Harry one single bit.  He still saved the stone, still finished off the basilisk/Diary!Tom, still rescued Sirius and Buckbeak (with Hermione's help), still force the Priori Incantatem thing work in his favour and escape LV, still fought, bravely though foolishly, the DEs in the DoM, still, through his love of Sirius, escaped possession by LV.  He's still survived all those years with the Dursleys which may be worse than anything else he's ever faced or will face. ;-)  

IMO, this is just a nice little plot twist.  JKR is writing this from HP's point of view, almost as though she is transcribing his journal (yes, I know there are places in the books where it is not HP's POV, bear with me here).  JKR really has nothing to do with it, as far as who is right or wrong, she is only putting into book form what HP has in his journals: that HP is convinced he is the one because DD is *wrongly* convinced HP is the one.  JKR doesn't even know DD is wrong yet, until she gets to the end of Harry's journal and finds out it has been Neville all along  (and yes, I know people have worked out the timeline and there is no 'time' for JKR to have found HP's journal and started writing the books in time for the first book to be published.  What if she found HP's journal, partly finished, HP gets another journal, which through magic, adds his next year's adventure to the journal JKR found?  This is a story about magic, after all.). ;-) 


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