![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Right. So the theories about Neville being the boy in the prophecy and not Harry annoy me for one simple reason - if Neville was the boy in the prophecy we would not have just read 5 books worth of Harry Potter -- yes, that's right Harry Potter, not Neville Longbottom -- adventure-lets-save-the-world-and-be-the-conqueres-of-all-things-good, story.
I know that JKR is not one to throw names around for the sake of throwing names around, but give me a break -- no matter how much you love Neville and believe that he has the potential to 'save the world' it just ain't happening. Guess what -- you don't write seven books worth of Harry fucking Potter just to have some idiot boy whose greatest talent is potting mandrakes come in and save the day! Why spend five books telling us the history of the scrawny orphan kid, when all along it's the dyslexic klutz who ends up saving the day?
Don't get me wrong, I love Neville, but the whole 'Neville is the Prophecy child' and Harry is simply the red-herring is getting OLD! Yes, Neville will have some greater part to play before the end. Yes, Neville and Harry do have a lot of similarities, but guess what, like it or not the books are NOT called Neville Longbottom and The Cauldron of Putrid Potting Mix. Oh, yes, I can just see book seven now...
"Without thinking Harry uttered those two words that would seal his fate, Avada Kedavra. The green light ricocheted off Voldemort, and to Harry's complete horror he realised that nothing had happened -- Voldemort was still alive, and so was he. Waving his wand around aimlessly Harry threw curse after curse at Voldemort but to no avail. In a last attempt to save the day Harry recalled what Dumbledore had told him of the prophecy and shouted at Neville. Harry knew then that the only way to save the world and to destroy Voldemort for good was to step aside and let Neville take the spot-light. And he did. And he killed Voldemort. And the Wizarding World celebrated and the day was called 'Neville Longbottom' Day. And Harry Potter - well, no-one cared about Harry Potter -- he was just some kid who fluked it eighteen years earlier, and who really had no right to even be in this story, really. The End."
Uh, huh. Yep. Right. Now that's a book that I'm just dying to pick up.
Prove me wrong. Show to me HOW in the love of all things good can Neville conceivably be the prophecy child. Theories are all well and good, but at the end of the day when you sit down to read that old favourite book you will not be picking up a story that suddenly changes course five books in. No, you'll be reading a story that is exciting, and mysterious, and has you on the edge of the seat, and where there hero, like it or not, is Harry Potter.
There's more I want to say on this, but I think it's best that I don't. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm sick of working, and all I want is a bleeding rest. Snark, whinge, whine, flame -- go at it.
I know that JKR is not one to throw names around for the sake of throwing names around, but give me a break -- no matter how much you love Neville and believe that he has the potential to 'save the world' it just ain't happening. Guess what -- you don't write seven books worth of Harry fucking Potter just to have some idiot boy whose greatest talent is potting mandrakes come in and save the day! Why spend five books telling us the history of the scrawny orphan kid, when all along it's the dyslexic klutz who ends up saving the day?
Don't get me wrong, I love Neville, but the whole 'Neville is the Prophecy child' and Harry is simply the red-herring is getting OLD! Yes, Neville will have some greater part to play before the end. Yes, Neville and Harry do have a lot of similarities, but guess what, like it or not the books are NOT called Neville Longbottom and The Cauldron of Putrid Potting Mix. Oh, yes, I can just see book seven now...
"Without thinking Harry uttered those two words that would seal his fate, Avada Kedavra. The green light ricocheted off Voldemort, and to Harry's complete horror he realised that nothing had happened -- Voldemort was still alive, and so was he. Waving his wand around aimlessly Harry threw curse after curse at Voldemort but to no avail. In a last attempt to save the day Harry recalled what Dumbledore had told him of the prophecy and shouted at Neville. Harry knew then that the only way to save the world and to destroy Voldemort for good was to step aside and let Neville take the spot-light. And he did. And he killed Voldemort. And the Wizarding World celebrated and the day was called 'Neville Longbottom' Day. And Harry Potter - well, no-one cared about Harry Potter -- he was just some kid who fluked it eighteen years earlier, and who really had no right to even be in this story, really. The End."
Uh, huh. Yep. Right. Now that's a book that I'm just dying to pick up.
Prove me wrong. Show to me HOW in the love of all things good can Neville conceivably be the prophecy child. Theories are all well and good, but at the end of the day when you sit down to read that old favourite book you will not be picking up a story that suddenly changes course five books in. No, you'll be reading a story that is exciting, and mysterious, and has you on the edge of the seat, and where there hero, like it or not, is Harry Potter.
There's more I want to say on this, but I think it's best that I don't. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm sick of working, and all I want is a bleeding rest. Snark, whinge, whine, flame -- go at it.
