Neville is The One

[Tim Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 127524


Hi All,

On Feb 26 in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/124028 
dumbledore11214 wrote:
>>> 7.  Do you agree with the possibility that Neville may turn out 
to be the real prophecy child? <<<

I was struck the other day by a series of JKR quotes TLC brought 
together onto a page about the forthcoming book: 
http://www.hpandthehalfbloodprince.org/faq.htm

At the Edinburgh Book Festival JKR said:
>>> There are two questions that I have never been asked but that I 
should have been asked [...] "Why didn't Voldemort die?" Not, "Why 
did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't Voldemort die?" The killing curse 
rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn't he? At the end of 
Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the steps that he took 
enabled him to survive. You should be wondering what he did to make 
sure that he did not die [...] you should be asking yourself that 
question, particularly now that you know about the prophesy. <<<

So, according to JKR, we should be asking why Voldemort did not die 
in Godric's Hollow, and we should be asking that question because of 
the `revelations' contained in the prophesy.

Some of you will know why I put `revelations' in quotes. I was 
really really disappointed by the prophesy. To me it seemed to tell 
none of the main stakeholders (Dumbledore, Harry, Voldemort, or the 
reader) anything much new. I put this forward in post 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/82067 It does 
tell us one thing, of the main contenders to vanquish Voldemort 
(Dumbledore and now Harry and Neville) Dumbledore cannot, and only 
one of Harry or Neville can.

Back to Godric's Hollow. Voldemort knows the first three clauses of 
the prophesy. From his spy he knows that 
1) The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches . . .
2) born to those who have thrice defied him,
3) born as the seventh month dies . . . and
So he narrows the list down to two suspects, Harry and Neville, and 
goes after the *least* likely (the half-blood) just to confirm his 
hunch that The One is Neville. Meanwhile his henchmen/women go after 
Neville's family to prepare the ground.

But there's a huge disaster for Voldemort. He *almost* dies. The 
result of this is that
1) The wizarding world believe Harry is more powerful than 
Voldemort; and
2) By marking Harry with the scar, Voldemort has convinced 
Dumbledore that Harry is The One, and so Dumbledore instigates a 
series of sophisticated Harry protection measures.
As a result of these events Voldemort obsesses about getting revenge 
on Harry, and finds it very very difficult to do so, because of 
Harry's powers, Dumbledore's powers, and the powers of their 
collected allies.

But Voldemort and Dumbledore missed one fact. In Godric's Hollow an 
Avada Kedavra went from the baby Harry onto Voldemort. What 
happened? It failed. Why? Harry is not The One. If he was, Voldemort 
would be dead. Hence Neville is The One.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.

PS I'm sure this has been done to death already; please point me to 
your favourite rebuttal or proposal post if it has.