JKR's FAQ poll -- Neville's potential as prophecy boy/Random Thoughts

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 129089

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> Sooo... I suppose there is *something* about Harry that made Voldy 
> choose him. Otherwise it wasn't a choice on Voldy's part, it was 
> just bad luck (which would be unsatisfying for me). It has to be 
> something about the history of the parents, surely? How else could 
> Voldy differentiate between two 15 month-old boys he had never met?
> 

Tonks:

Why LV chose Harry. Some options:
1. Harry was the last one born, so his DOB is closer to the end of 
July than Neville. 

2. Harry represents what LV hates most, himself, a product of a 
marriage between a Muggle and a Pure Blood.

3. Think of the bad press if LV killed the baby of a Pure Blood 
family. This might not go over well with his followers, especially 
if they ever found out that LV was a half-blood.  Killing Neville 
would be a really bad political move.

4. Maybe there was something about Lily too.  Something that was 
passed on to her son through her Muggle family line, maybe this 
something is what makes Harry special.  (What was Harry's Muggle 
grandfather's first name?)
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Random Thoughts:

Something about Harry:  I wonder if GG is the decendant of some 
really old wizard from the Middle East. With this old wizard 
representing Abraham and GG representing King David. The bible says 
that there is about 1000 years between Abraham and David and 42 
generations between Abraham and Jesus, with David being in the 
second third.  So I wonder if there are 28 generations between GG 
and Harry.  Harry being in the House and line of GG.  Jesus was in 
the House and line of David. Jesus was the Anointed One, the Chosen 
One. The introduction to the book of Matthew calls Jesus "the 
Messiah, the royal anointed one".  Harry???

Random thought #2: Why does DD have so many names?  Does he have one 
for each of his many incarnations??

Tonks_op