A/N: This one's a shorty. Nice change after the many other chapters before this one that go on for pages and pages. This is just something that one of my friends swears is going to happen in the end. Please, please review, I can't keep coming up with all these ideas!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. Although if I refrained from paying ten dollars a ticket to see the new movie twenty gazillion times I could probably save up enough money to buy him.
There used to be just "The Boy Who Lived". But now, if you refer to such a person you are likely to be asked just which one you are talking about. You see, there is no longer just one boy who lived.
Now there are two. Two boys who survived the would-be fatal Killing Curse of Lord Voldemort. Each bears an identical lightning bolt scar. Though one of these scars is sixteen years old, the other is a recent acquisition.
One of these boys is, of course, Harry Potter. The one known and recognized for the infamous scar of which I speak. But the other boy is one that you probably have not heard of before, who goes by the name of Neville Longbottom.
Those of you with an excellent memory, or those who simply zealously absorb every fact about these boy wizards, know that there was a prophecy made a very long time ago, seventeen years to be more precise, involving Lord Voldemort and one of two infant boy wizards. One was Harry Potter, the other Neville Longbottom. Many thought that Harry Potter was indeed the boy that the prophecy was referring to, as Lord Voldemort chose him to attack. But in reality, Lord Voldemort miscalculated. He made the fatal mistake of acting on the prophecy, when he should have waited until things were more apparent. But, alas, Lord Voldemort did not know of the entire prophecy. So he chose wrongly.
All he knew of the prophecy was that the boy with the power to destroy him would be born at the end of the seventh month of the year to parents who had defied him three times. He did not know that by attacking he would mark the young boy as his equal, or give to him the powers needed to destroy him. So he chose to first attack the boy which he saw as the biggest threat.
By attacking Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort knew he had created his own enemy. But by disappearing and leaving his followers the impression that he had intended to kill both boy wizards, he created an enemy he did not yet know of. His followers continued with his plan ever after his disappearance, creating another powerful enemy for him, one which he did not know the existence of.
This unknown nemesis had not been considered by Lord Voldemort throughout the planning process for the final attack, which ultimately led to his downfall. With Harry Potter nearly dead, dying slowly but still holding tightly to life, and Lord Voldemort slowly looming closer, it was Neville Longbottom who jumped in front of the jet of green light and received the blow that ought to have been fatal.
Instead the curse rebounded and left him with a new identity, the Second Boy Who Lived, as well as with the mark of a hero, a lightning bolt scar.