The Ouroboros

[davehoz]

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From: davehoz
Subject: Re: The Ouroboros
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3212] The Ouroboros
Date: 7/2/00 9:49 pm  (ET)

I forgot about Hermione seeing the Ouroboros. The way it come up on
this list is that I speculated that the reason Dumbledore says that
You-Know-Who is the last *ancestor* of Salazaar Slytherin is that
Voldemort went back in time and fathered SS who then gave rise to the
line that lead to V, creating an infinite "Ouroboros" loop. (And this
would also be the reason Slytherin's insignia is a serpent.)

I know the theory is a bit crazy and the word "ancestor" is almost
certainly simply a typo in the earliest printings of _HP&CoS_; but still
I had fun thinking it up... :)