How Neville was “the chosen one”
http://daily-harry-potter.tumblr.comHoly shit. Couldn’t have said it better myself…
I don’t know if I heard this somewhere or if it was all me, but Harry Potter was the Chosen One. Neville Longbottom, on the other hand, was the one who chose.
He could have backed out, he could have backed down, he could have taken his parents’ fate as a warning and made himself small and unimportant. And with his magical prowess, that might have been the smartest thing for him to do. But he didn’t. He chose to protect others, to live up to his parents’ legacy, to make them proud. He chose, and he became a hero in his own right. And I think that’s just as important as him being ‘chosen’, if not more.
And quite frankly we should have seen this coming when he stood up to Harry, Hermione and Ron for the first time and was recognized by Dumbledore for it.
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