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

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "S Handel" <fc26det at a...> 
wrote:
> Hi Wanda, 
> The sections that you are referring to are about their upbringing 
and 
> from what I can remember LV never refers to power or type of 
power.  
> He also refers as you say to their looks and heritage. 

Yes, but the prophecy doesn't say that Harry is Voldemort's equal 
*in power*, either.  It just says "equal".  "Power" comes in the 
next phrase, and is not necessarily connected. It seems natural to 
think that the sentence is talking about power throughout, because 
we're thinking about it in terms of a "weapon", like Voldemort was - 
Is Harry strong enough to defeat Voldemort?  But I think it might be 
talking about their "equality" in a different sense.  I remembered a 
line from "Jane Eyre", when Mr. Rochester asks Jane to marry 
him:  "My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my 
likeness."  I don't think the equality spoken of in the prophecy is 
one of strength or power, but of resemblance.

Wanda