Basilisk & Voldemort-connection?

[Inge]

No: HPFGUIDX 132235

I vmonte wrote:
Isn't there a legend or fable that talks about a man that becomes
immortal because he keeps his soul hidden in a box? (Did I make this
up?)

Pastafor5 responded:
You could be on to something here. This is also part of the ballet
story "The Firebird" (phoenix?). 
In the version of this story that I've read, the evil Kotschei keeps 
his soul in an egg in a box. The firebird lulls the evil creatures who 
serve Kotschei(dementors/death eaters?) to sleep so the hero can get to 
the box to destroy the egg. SNIP!

Inge now:
Ok - now it gets really interesting. If Voldemort's soul is kept in an 
egg (in a box maybe) - then this could very well be the part in the 
story where Neville's toad, Trevor comes into play.

Let me quote (COS - Bloomsbury - p. 215:
"Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam the land, there is 
none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the 
King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic size, and live 
many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a 
toad. It's methods of killing are wondrous, for aside from its deadly 
and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are 
fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee 
before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk 
flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it."

Now - what have we got here?
Voldmort's soul - inside an egg - waiting to be brought back to life 
with a little help from Trevor? Is this what Voldemort wants? Is this 
his final goal? To become the Basilisk - the King of Serpents? After 
all - it lives for hundreds of years - in this case probably forever, 
had Harry (and the firebird, Fawkes) not put an end to it. Voldemort 
seeks immortality. Is this the way he's going to finally get it?
Im not sure what Im getting at here - but this could be something - and 
I think this could be what Rowling has referred to as the link between 
COS and HBP ??

And could there be a connection, too, between the fatal eyes of the 
Basilisk and Harry's eyes? And what's with the Rooster in all this? I 
don't know. But Im sure some of you clever guys out there can tell me :-
)

Inge