Theory Bay: Ouroboros in HP? (Pretty long!)

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 78706

say543 wrote: (snipped a bit)
> LV loses his memory, and wanders aimlessly around the room, 
eventually landing in a sort of time machine that sends him back 
about a thousand years. >

I say: Now that's an interesting theory! One interesting implication: 
since LV loses before he goes back in time, he can try to rig the 
future fight in his favor. By, say, creating a room accessible only 
by parseltongues-with info/spells for his future self to learn from. 
Perhaps there were other areas he left for himself at Hogwarts-the 
Room of Requirement, anyone? Would have been a great place for a 
budding psychopath to practice the dark arts! Maybe he had a hand in 
the constantly changing nature of the castle, to better keep his 
secret places hidden. So many possibilities!

One question I had, however, is what about the sorting hat? If it was 
imbued with some of each founder, would it not have recognized Tom 
Riddle as Slytherin himself? Makes me wonder what it said when it 
sorted him.

On the other hand, if Slytherin had anything to do with the sorting 
hat's workings, maybe he constructed it as the perfect empire maker 
for his future self-it only picks future loyal followers of LV!

A final thought: perhaps during his early memory-charmed days in the 
past as Salazar Slytherin, LV is treated nicely in a hospital like the 
Longbottoms. Perhaps this niceness ultimately leads to a Reformed!LV. 
Perhaps he doesn't *want* his future self to defeat Harry--and that's 
why he doesn't help his future self more, and that's why history 
repeats itself again (and again).

Hmmm.
-Remnant
"i've fallen into a time turner and i can't get up!"-LV