Neville Theory.

[distaiyi]

No: HPFGUIDX 153748

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lana McMillan <lanzscot at ...> wrote:
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Of course someone has thought about Neville playing a key role. JKR
has said that the Prophecy pertains to one of two boys, and it isn't
Neville. However, having said that she's left herself open to using my
pet theory about Neville...

You see, I'm of the cloth that says Harry and LV must both die to end
his scourge. Why, well because that's the way things often work. Take
WW II for instance, a lot of good men died on both sides to end the
reign of the Nazis and the SS.

So... my theory is, by the end of book 7 Harry is trying to sneak off
to face LV because he doesn't want anyone else to get hurt in this
fight and he knows he MUST face LV. Fortunately for the rest of the
Wizarding world, Neville has continued to increase his confidence (as
we saw particularly in book 6) and shadows Harry to the battle. I
predict LV kills Harry first but is so weakened that the Avenging
Avatar Neville swoops in and is able to finish him off with an AK
curse. Trust me, of all the people in the books right now only Harry
and Neville on the good side could mean it enough and I don't think
Harry has it in him. Neville, on the other hand, who has watched his
parents suffer, who has had to live with his gran, who idolizes Harry
and just watched him die... Neville I think could find it in himself
to mean to caste AK.

Distaiyi the Avenging Avatar Neville Fan!

PS : Neville gets short shrift in the movies compared to the books.