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Harry Potter
Literature Harry Potter (1997)

7/30/1980  · J.K. Rowling

July 30, 1980 is the birthday of Neville Longbottom — born one day before Harry Potter, and the other child who could have fulfilled the prophecy. Voldemort chose Harry instead; Neville was left to grow up clumsy, overlooked, and underestimated, before proving in the Battle of Hogwarts that the prophecy's runner-up can still be the one to destroy a Horcrux and behead a snake.