[ WP ] You discover the message meant to be given to `` The Chosen One '' was wrongfully given to you .

`` Mr. Longbottom, please sit down here next to Mr. Potter,'' Dumbledore said. 
 
 `` Sure thing, Professor. So, what is this all about?'' Neville sat down next to Harry Potter. *Why's that scrawny long-haired little kid here? * Neville thought. *My meetings with Dumbledore are usually private. So, unless this kid has something to do with me being the Boy Who Lived, I do n't know why he's here. * 
 
 `` Well, we've made a discovery about your status as the Chosen One,'' said Dumbledore. 
 
 `` What is it?'' asked Neville. 
 
 `` Well, I'm afraid I ca n't put this lightly, Neville,'' said Dumbledore. `` You *aren't* the Chosen One.'' Neville stared at Dumbledore for a second, then laughed. 
 
 `` That's funny Dumbledore. So really, what did you want to talk about?'' 
 
 Dumbledore moved over to Harry gracefully for his age. `` Harry, lift your head up.'' Harry did so. Dumbledore lifted up the massive amount of hair previously obscuring Harry's forehead and eyes. A scar-shaped mark was on his forehead. 
 
 `` You see, Neville, I thought the prophecy applied to you, but Harry actually meets all the requirements as well. This scar, which I recently discovered, confirms it's him, not you.'' 
 
 *'' What? `` * screamed Neville. `` So my whole life, since my birth, I've been lied to about who I am?'' 
 
 `` I'm afraid so.'' 
 
 `` What about last year? He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named called me the Chosen One! He said that he had to kill *me! * Because I was the Chosen One!'' 
 
 `` Neville, Voldemort had n't seen the Harry since he was a newborn child. Plus, he had been under Quirrel's turban for months, and the room you were in was dark. Under those circumstances, I'm sure anyone that had been in that room would have been mistaken for the Chosen One.'' 
 
 Neville stared at Dumbledore for a long time. 
 
 `` I'm sorry, Neville. I know this must be hard for you. But this is not your destiny. You must find some other way to help on our quest to defeat Voldemort.'' 
 
 `` So I'm not the hero anymore?'' 
 
 `` You never were, I'm afraid.'' 
 
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