Is (was) Harry a squib? (or born a not-so-great wizard?)

[Liz]

No: HPFGUIDX 108232

When Lord V came after baby Harry in Godric's Hollow, he had decided 
what child to attack because of his own racist attitudes and 
feelings about his own half-muggle self combined with his 
presumptions about the prophecy, having been told only part of it.

And because of these presumptions and decisions Lord V made, is it 
possible that the otherwise "ordinary" prophecy was turned into 
a "self-fulfilling prophecy"?

What I mean is, if he'd decided to go after Neville rather than 
Harry, perhaps the same thing would have happened - Neville would 
have had some familial protection that kept him alive and he would 
have been swept off to a hiding place until Hogwarts age, and Lord V 
would have gone slitering off to Albania to hide-out, just as he did 
in the actual timeline. In the meantime, Harry and the Potters 
would've continued living hidden away in Godric's Hollow - but with 
one difference: that Harry would have been weaker wizard or perhaps 
even a squib. I say this because, I wonder if it had been possible 
that Lord V's attack that so famously transferred powers to Harry, 
gave Harry the *only* powers he would ever have had... ? (Not that 
it matters now of course, because HP has all or more of the power 
he'd ever want!)

And if the prophecy is self-fulfilling, no matter what child LV 
attacked, the child marked as his equal is going to have all the 
power needed (whether born into him or transferred to him by LV) to 
work through to the end of the prophecy, which states that one will 
kill the other. That means that if little Neville had been attacked, 
he might have had all those Slytherin-esque powers transferred to 
him, like Harry did, and would have been a wizard of the quality 
that Harry is to this day, and Harry, on the other hand, would have 
been the one in the shadow of the famous-er boy?

Any takers?


"Liz"