Lily's sacrifice - Voldemort's 'Mark'

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 106681

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcgmck" <dolis5657 at y...> wrote:
> 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...

What if the 7th month means the 7th month following the prophesy, not 
the 7th month of the year?  Harry bieng allowed to take the orb from 
the ministry doesn't really tell us anything, because the ministry 
set it up so it could only be taken by those the Ministry thinks are 
the subjects - what if the Ministry is wrong?

Or what if "approaches" didn't mean "is about to be born" but is more 
litteral?  What if it was someone born at the end of July many years 
earlier, but who is approaching Hogsmead that night?  Or approached 
something else?