Lily's sacrifice - Voldemort's 'Mark'

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No: HPFGUIDX 106654

Saraquel:
> 
> To take things further, what does it mean to say LV MARKED H as his 
> equal.  It can be taken as a literal thing, as in his scar.  But it 
> is also possible to interpret (this is a use of the word in England 
> and quite probably elsewhere I don't know) the meaning of MARK to 
> be 'to realise' as in 'Mark my words'.  Now that's something LV 
> hasn't done yet.  At the end of GoF he most definitely sees Harry 
as his inferior.  But tha's starting a whole new discussion.....

This is something that has been bothering me ever since I first read 
that pesky prophecy.  I do not see Voldemort as recognizing Harry, or 
anyone else for that matter, as an equal.  

In fact, the only one I could see Voldemort recognizing as an equal 
is his younger self, Tom Riddle. I think that Tom still exists 
somewhere inside Voldemort.  Harry's blood might even have reawaken 
that human portion of him, and LV cannot coexist with TR.  

Since there are elipses involved, I am not yet convinced as to 
who "he" is each time the word appears in Trelawney's prophecy, no 
matter what Dumbledore says.  Everyone knows prophecies make so much 
more sense after they are fulfilled...