Voldemort CHOSE to attack Harry

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 108558

Geoff:

Let's suppose. If Voldemort had attacked Neville first, would Neville
have survived? Was he with his parents at the time of the attack on
Harry? Or were they away and he was with Grandma Longbottom? Would
any of these three have had any way of blocking an Avada Kedavra
spell? If he had atacked and killed Neville first and gone on to
Godric's Hollow, then the same scenario might well have played out
and we would have a similar setup to the current one but minus
Neville. Whichever way, he might still have finished up on a hiding
to nothing....
Thoughts?

vmonte responds:

I don't think Neville would've survived as a child. But I do think 
that Neville has an important part in the ultimate defeat. The 
prophecy has been carefully worded so that no reference of time is 
mentioned. You don't know when, where, and a what time anything will 
take place. You also don't know if part of the prophecy has been 
fullfilled or if it will be fullfilled in the future, or in the past 
if time-travel is used. I think that this may be an important key to 
the whole prophecy: time is not mentioned because it plays an 
important factor in how the final outcome may turn out.  

vivian