User blog comment:VibravaMajic/There are two Chosen Ones in Harry Potter. DEBATE, OPEN!/@comment-8667508-20150612161005/@comment-6011163-20150612211552

@Vibrava No. There were two potential 'Chosen Ones'. Voldemort was responsible for, yes, choosing who the prophecy would apply to--and he chose Harry, not Neville.

Dumbledore puts forth the theory--in HBP, I believe--that that's because he saw something of himself in Harry's half-blood status. Harry, at one point, starts understanding better that it could just as easily have been Neville instead of him--that Neville might've been the one sitting there with the lightning scar while he, Harry, had parents who loved him (or somesuch, I forget the exact quote. That's got to be also in HBP or else in OotP.)

However, the point is--the prophecy could have applied to two boys. But Voldemort chose to mark Harry. 'And he shall mark him as his equal', remember? That's what makes the difference.

So yeah. The very fact that Voldemort did not choose Neville means that Neville, who was a potential Chosen One, cannot be 'the Chosen One', since the role fell to Harry when Voldemort marked him. You can still call him a potential 'Chosen One'; but Harry is the only one who can actually be given the title, because he's the only one that Voldemort marked in canon.

~DF

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