Voldemort CHOSE to attack Harry

[kateydidnt2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 108583

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "texaschow"
<flamingstarchows at a...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It would just be such a good plot twist to have it be Neville.  
> Such a good "gotcha" at the end of the series.  It doesn't make Harry 
> any less of a hero, IMO.  I'm not saying it IS Neville just that it 
> is still possible that it could be him.  
> > 
>

I don't see it as being a good plot twist.  It would actually be
incredibly cruel to Harry. The Wizarding World has shown itself to be
easily swayed and entirely too gullible and trusting.  If suddenly
they found out that it was Neville all along they would disregard all
that Harry did for them without a second thought.  Harry has the
burden of the wizarding world on his shoulders and he feels it quite
heavily (in my interpretation anyway). If it were to turn out to be
Neville all his sacrifice, all his pain, and his baring of that burden
would be completely forgotten and would completely tear apart any
self-respect and self-esteem he had because it would reconfirm once
again that nobody cared about "Harry Potter" they only cared about
"The Boy-Who-Lived" and once that became moot, they would forget he
ever existed.

Ergh, now I sound like I want him to have the attention he will get
upon defeating Voldemort, because Harry doesn't like attention in
general, and especially not media attention.  So I really don't know
what I mean here, except for this-it would be incredibly cruel for the
world to not ackonwledge what Harry has done, simply because he did
not accomplish the final step. (And I see no doubt that that is the
reaction the wizarding world *would* have).