Voldemort CHOSE to attack Harry

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 108604

YB says:

Well, I think that Neville could have survived, because if LV had
gone to his house that night, he would have attacked Neville,
thus "choosing" him. Jo stresses choices throughout the book, and the
reason Harry is The One is because LV chose him to be, by trying to
kill him. Harry has been marked: he has the scar. Harry is
LV's "equal": Priori Incantatem (sp) showed that, not to mention he
has escaped LV's wrath 5 times now (counting when he was a baby.) LV
had to mark the one as his equal, thus LV had to choose the child.
Thus, it's Harry.

vmonte again:

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Are you saying that 
whoever Voldemort chose would have survived? Are you sure? Because we 
don't know the exact time and place the events in the prophecy 
are/have taken place.  I think that Harry is the "one" because that 
is the way it seems to be playing out. Voldemort picked Harry, and 
Harry was marked. (Neville, by the way, has also been marked but in a 
different way.) 

I believe that Harry is the "one" who will defeat the Dark Lord but I 
also believe that Neville is going to do something that will 
eventually make the prophecy read as though it can apply to both 
boys.  The prophecy is very ambiguous on purpose. JKR is not going to 
tell us the ending of book seven that easily. There are probably 
going to be some big surprises.

Have you noticed that she plays with the theme of mistaken identity 
throughout the series? We have fake Moody, polyjuice Harry and Ron as 
Crabb & Goyle, Sirius as bad guy but who is really good, the Grim is 
really Sirius, Voldemort is really Tom Riddle, Scabbers is Peter, the 
vision of James attacking the dementors is really time-turned Harry, 
Rita Skeeter is a bug, and Harry introducing himself as Neville on 
the Night Bus.

Does anyone think this theme will come up again?  What's Tonks 
purpose in the story if she is not going to impersonate another 
character? Aren't we going to also find out that someone we thought 
was a muggle (or squibb)is going to turn out to be a wizard or witch? 
(I lean towards Petunia as this person. Filch and Figg would not give 
me as much pleasure as Petunia's worst fear come to life.) Will Ginny 
turn out to be an animagus with all the feline references she gets 
(in the same manner that Sirius had doglike characteristics--even 
while in human form). We also had Hermione turning into a big cat but 
unfortunately JKR said none of the main three would become animagus.  

What's Neville's purpose?  He was the only one that stood up against 
his fellow Gryffindors when he believed that they were wrong (PS/SS). 
Will he decide to go against the prophecy and by doing so change 
Harry Potter's fate?

vivian