Actually, Harry's role as the Chosen One comes from him having been the only person who survived Voldemort attacking him. So it's less being Chosen from skill than from the fact that he's still alive.
I have been struck, however, by the fact that of Harry's generation of wizards, there's Hermione... and the rest of the world. No one of note.
Harry's father's generation, however... Snape, who corrected rewrote the potion book; Padfoot, Moony, Prongs, and Wormtail, who secretly mastered shapeshifting and created things like the Marauder's Map. Brilliant.
I'm in the process of rereading Deathly Hallows now, if the rest of my family will let me read in peace...
