Neville and the Prophecy (was The Longbottoms-a theory)

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No: HPFGUIDX 102719

This reminds me, something just popped into my head about the 
prophecy as I was rereading OotP last night, but I don't have the 
book here today to check it. Voldemort knew there was a boy, born at 
a certain time, to parents who had thwarted him 3 times, who would 
eventually have the power to vanquish him. So, he went after both 
the Longbottoms and the Potters. He found/chose Harry first, tried 
to kill him but was essentially turned into vapor. If I recall, he 
did not hear the part of the prophecy about him "marking" the one as 
his enemy. "We" know Voldemort chose Harry and therefore Harry is 
the one who has the power to defeat him, but does Voldemort know 
this? What I am asking is if he still considers Neville a threat. 
He's shown no signs of pursuing Neville (that we know of), but if he 
doesn't know this part of the prophecy, why ignore Neville?

Maybe this was cleared up at the end, but I don't remember. Can 
anyone else recall?

BTW, I like this Longbottom theory very much.

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<cmjohnstone at h...> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> >Frank and Alice Longbottom were Auror, the most highly trained and
> >skilled members of Magical Law Enforcement, and more importantly, 
> >they were member of The Order of the Phoenix, and good and 
trusted 
> >friends of Dumbledore. AND, they had a son the same age as Harry.
> 
> >That seems to meet all the requirements of a safe and trusted 
place,
> >as well as safe and trusted people with which Harry could stay 
until
> >Dumbledore made arrangements to place Harry with the Dursleys.
>