What would be really satisfying for me is if it turned out that Harry was a complete red herring, and Neville has been the Chosen One all along. Heh.


Seconded. There's plenty of wiggle room for it in the prophecy thingy, and it would be satisfying on a gut level to see Harry's role transmuted to "distracting Valdemort to give the real hero time to get his feet under him".

I dunno. I guess I've been getting a bit anti-Harry ever since he started turning into a whiny chosen-therefore-entitled git. I mean. Since he got really adolescent. Given it's a function of age, not stunted development, it's not really his fault he's adolescent. But boy is he sure adolescent. *sigh* Meanwhile, Neville's just sort of sweet and uncertain. He deserves a break.