Basilisk & Voldemort-connection?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 132377


> 
> Inge now:
> 
> 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 :-

Finwitch:

Well, in folklore I'm familiar with origins(parents) of a being such 
as this could indeed be of some sort of control over it. In the case 
of basilisk - a Rooster(since it sired the egg from which it was 
hatched). Probably the chickens and toads could have SOME, though 
the text doesn't mention it.

I wonder, however, whether the cry of a Mandrake would be fatal to a 
Basilisk... or how it would respond to chicken's sound or that of a 
Toad. Maybe a parselmouth with a toad in hand can gain greater 
control than one who doesn't...

Finwitch