Oh, I love Neville so much. Always loved Neville.
And I always saw, I always had big plans for Neville. And he really was the boy it could have been.
Because, as you know, as I make clear, he was born hours before Harry.
He was born on the thirtieth of July. Voldemort singled him out as the other possibility.
But the great thing about Neville’s story for me, the over-arching story about Neville,
is that he proves himself to be a boy who could have done it, too!
Yeah, Harry had the scar, and arguably Harry had an edge more talent, because Harry,
he has an extraordinary instinct for the right thing to do.
He’s just got the right instinct and that’s what would make him, in due course, a phenomenal Auror.
But Neville was, I think, amazing in the final battle,
and proved himself a hundred times over worthy of being a Gryffindor, his parents son,
despite the very difficult childhood he had at the hands of his very pushy grandmother.
And I know she loves him and he loves her
but she’s not an easy person to be raised by.
So yeah, that, for me, was the big thing about Neville.
He was a- he’s not, on the surface- I suppose he’s not as cool,
when it comes right down to it.
Though, Harry, of course, made himself cool.
He was a scrawny little kid in glasses,
and he comes through, and becomes the guy everyone wants to know.
JRK (Pottercast-Interview)
'...Voldemort himself would mark him as his equal. And so he did, Harry.
He chose you, not Neville. He gave you the scar that has proven both blessing and curse.'
'But he might have have chosen wrong!' said Harry.
'He might have marked the wrong person!'
HP5 (JKR)
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