Mark Evans Mark Equal

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89812

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katrina" <patnkatng at c...> 
wrote:

> Katrina:
> Whenever I (re)read the prophecy, the use of the word, "mark" 
> reminds me of the phrase, "marked man."  In that sense, Harry 
> was "marked" even before LV arrived in Godric's Hollow.  He 
> was "marked" as soon as LV turned his attention to him.
> 
> To quote the Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms:
> [A marked man/woman is] someone who is being watched by someone who 
> wants to harm or kill them.
> 
> Sounds like our Harry to me.

Geoff:
Harry realises this himself. One of the interesting bits of OOTP is 
when he's finished hitting the roof after the MoM fight and after the 
news of Voldemort's return has become public.

"Perhaps the reason he wanted to be alone was because he had felt 
isolated from everybody since his talk with Dumbledore. An invisible 
barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was - he had 
always been - a marked man. It was just that he had never understood 
what that meant..."

(OOTP "The Second War Begins" p.755 UK edition)

I have always found that section where Harry goes down to the lake on 
his own particularly poignant.