new thoughts after rereading SS/PS

[elizabeth1603]

No: HPFGUIDX 78302

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sberinsky" <sberinsky at y...> 
wrote:
> The prophecy talks about voldemort marking harry, which I had always 
> taken to mean the scar.  In the first book though, Dumbledore refers 
> to Lily marking Harry with her love when she dies to save him.  In 
> the fourth book, Voldemort takes some of Harry's own blood, so he 
> can get the residing protection.  But it's almost like he's marking 
> himself with something good, wherease Harry is good but marked with 
> evil.  Like they compliment each other, and in a very strange way 
> slowly becoming one.  In the fifth book, this trend continues, with 
> Harry lapsing into Voldemorts thoughts, and at the end, with 
> Voldemort possessing him.
> 
> In book two, Harry himself points out how much he is like Tom 
> Riddle.  Except where Tom is choosing evil, Harry is choosing good.  
> Opposites.  And Harry shows mercy (book three, when he does not 
> allow pettigrew to be killed) wherease Voldemort does not (his 
> ditching Quirrel in book one).
> 
> The problem with all these theories, is that I cannot tell where 
> it's going.  Summarizing, Harry and Voldemort are seeming to become 
> one creation, (I keep thinking of them like a Yin and Yang) but 
> where do we go from here?
> 
> Stacy

There's one more thing: 
Voldemort chose to live his life the way he is. He got ambitious and gathered 
power and followers. Harry, however, was thrown into it without any choice.