Neville and the Prophecy - VERY LONG

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 108318

charme wrote:
>>I'm not convinced LV didn't choose Harry after all, since by 
his "choices" which DD makes clear (PS/PSS ..DD's refrain that it is 
our choices who make us who we are) is a key element of canon, IMO.<<

Voldemort did *choose* to go after Harry and kill him. And he did 
choose to use AK on Lily as opposed to an easier stupify spell (he 
was having a dense moment, if she's begging you to 'kill her 
instead', stop and ask yourself why that is). Not everything comes 
down to choice. That is a mantra of the books, but some things you 
don't have a choice about. Actually the prophecy thing makes Harry 
have no choice at all about what he has to do. He can choose to 
reject it, but that doesn't mean that Voldemort will suddenly leave 
him alone. 


>> Remember, if LV were focused on killing Neville he'd be after him 
now as well, and we'd see more about that in canon, wouldn't we? 
Instead, LV consistently and reliably chooses to focus his killing 
efforts on Harry. <<

I don't know about that. At first, as far as we know, Voldemort could 
have been focused on killing both boys, then, as DuffyPoo said, Peter 
came and told him where Harry was, so he went after Harry. The 
Longbottom's might have simply chose their secret-keeper better. 
After that, Voldemort is more focused on getting a body again than 
killing anyone. When he does get back to the prophecy in OotP, it had 
occured to him that he missed something in it, so his main focus is 
to not do *anything* until he hears the rest of the prophecy. I don't 
know when in all that he would have been concerned with finding and 
killing Neville.
His actions now don't really mean much anyway. He, like Dumbledore, 
now believes the prophecy refers to Harry. Neville is no longer of 
any importance. (DuffyPoo's original post, which I disagreed with, 
was stating that that belief of his may end up being his undoing, if 
Neville is the person the prophecy refers to).