Neville is The One

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 127550


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <timregan at m...> 
wrote:
> 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. 

GEO: Actually it did bring up something knew, which was that Harry 
had the power that the dark lord knows not that I think both the 
Dark Lord and us the audience and readers seem to both ignore and 
underestimate. Afterall it was the same power that deprived 
Voldemort of his body in 81 and also helped him in his rebirthing 
ceremony in GoF to become greater than ever. 

> 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.

GEO: His minions (Lestranges, Crouch Jr.) went after the Longbottoms 
after his fall and according to JKR on the orders of someone else 
possibly dear Lucius so Harry was indeed the Dark Lord's first 
choice as potential threat despite the fact that Harry was just a 
half-blood and initially had few resemblances to Harry. 
 
> 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.

GEO: Again it points to something that Voldemort did between the 
time he left Hogwarts and the Halloween of 81 where he fell not to 
the fact that Neville not Harry is the one. If Neville were to AK 
him, he would probably still be rendered incorporeal though still 
alive, which might dovetail to the second question of why Dumbledore 
never tries to kill Voldemort since the destruction of his physical 
body would still leave his spirit alive.