Will Neville kill Voldy?

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No: HPFGUIDX 169154

JW:One possibility is LV will find out that sometimes, life sucks.  
Or at least dementors do - and the wizard who wanted to spread his 
soul around could wind up with no soul at all.

Janelle: I think that dementors playing a role in the defeat of 
Voldemort is very plausible, but at the same time, I really like the 
idea of Neville playing a role too.  While Dumbledore makes it clear 
to Harry that Voldemort picked Harry, making him "The Chosen One", he 
also makes it clear that the prophecy itself holds very little 
weight: it only became true because Voldemort believed in it.  

This makes things a little complicated for the Neville theory, but it 
is still workable.  On one level the prophecy is only important 
because Voldie thinks it is, meaning that neither Harry nor Neville 
had to be the Chosen One.  If Voldie had left them both alone, 
neither would have the power to destroy him, of course, Voldie didn't 
know that part of the prophecy.  But is it possible that Dumbledore 
only said that to Harry to make him feel better about it, and realize 
that he actually did want to kill Voldie and that he wouldn't be 
doing it only because he had to?

Because, on another level, Dumbledore does classify it as a "true 
prediction" in POA when he tells Harry that Trelawny's count of true 
predictions is now at two.  So let's assume that the prophecy is 
accurate and that it was only *activated* because Voldie believed it 
to be real.

So what to make of all this?  It has been argued here before that 
although Voldie chose Harry and "marked" him with the scar, Neville 
has also been marked, although less overtly.  Neville has immense 
emotional scarring, evident in many scenes throughout the books, 
including the class in GOF where "Moody" teaches about the 
unforgivable curses.  Although, as it was pointed out in a recent 
post, Voldie wasn't aiming at Neville when attacking his parents, 
nonetheless, he still "marked" Neville emotionally.  It's like that 
paragraph in GOF (sorry I don't have my books handy) in which Harry, 
after seeing Neville's reaction to the unforgivables, thinks 
something along the lines of "It all comes back to Voldemort".  So 
even though it was actually Bellatrix who was actually targeting 
Frank and Alice, it all comes back to Voldemort hurting Neville.  So, 
in a way Voldie has "marked" both Harry and Neville.  

If this is the case, then either one of them could potentially 
destroy or kill or defeat Voldemort.  It's just a matter of how.  I 
like to think that in the end, everyone will be surprised.  
Dumbledore and Harry both interpreting the "marking" as something 
that Voldie did directly to Harry, but maybe not.  It could be that 
both boys are equally qualified as being the destroyer of the Dark 
Lord. 

Sorry, this has gotten longer than I intended, to sum up, I think 
that Neville, an countless others have been "marked" by Voldie.  
Neville and Harry, both born as the seventh month dies, have equal 
chance at being the one to destroy Voldie in the end.  If Neville 
steps up to do the deed, Voldie's last moments will be filled with 
the horrible thought that he had chosen incorrectly.

I'm not sure if that all made sense, but I'd be happy to try to 
clarify if anyone has questions.