JKR's FAQ poll -- Neville's potential as prophecy boy (spoilers for FAQ)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 129063

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
 
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> Carol notes:
 
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> But the mechanism of the Ancient Magic is still, IMO, problematic. 
For
> one thing, just any self-sacrifice can't protect against an AK or
> Harry would not be the only known survivor. 

Hickengruendler:

I think this is more plausible than it seems on first look. We 
shouldn't forget that Voldemort normally doesn't target children. 
Sure, he might kill them as well if they are there, like it could 
have been with the Bones family. But his primarly targets are the 
parents, who fight him. In Harry's (or if he had chosen Neville, in 
Neville's) case it was the other way around. Here it was the child 
who was the intented victim, and the parents were just killed because 
they were in the way to the child. The attack on the Potters was 
therefore a very special circumstance, since it was the only time we 
know about, that Voldemort's real target was a child.  

Hickengruendler