Let's pick at that prophecy a little more, shall we?

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77646

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <deemarie1a at y...> 
wrote:
>> Sorry this post will be so short, but...
> 
> Being marked as an equal, could that possibly mean that there is a 
> familial connection between Harry and Voldemort?  
> 
> Since "blood" is so important to Voldemort, wouldn't he think that 
> someone in his own bloodline be more powerful than someone who 
> wasn't?  
> 
>
I wonder that too; and maybe that's why he didn't particularly want 
to kill Lily.  Maybe she is a blood relation, and he preferred not 
to kill "one of his own" if he could help it.

Wanda