OrochimaruVoldemort's Journal: J.K. Rowling can't make an original villain

Through a few hours of research, I have found that the main villain of the harry potter series is more or less taken from Japanese lore, the same lore that the popular anime villain, Orochimaru, comes from. As I read it, I see more of the same telling in the Harry Potter books as the folktales. This leads me to beileve that Voldemort is not of an original design. Whats more, before Voldemort became evil, he was under the training of a main character, Dumbledorf (Orochimaru was a student of Jiriaya, also in the tale). Both fail at killing their former master, and both are killed by another follower of their former master (in the case of Orochimaru, it would be a Naruto like figure, although no name is given). Both also change their names and are corrupted by snake magic. Given this information, I can boldly say Voldemort is based off of Orochimaru, and Orochimaru (Naruto version) is somewhat based on Voldemort. In a sense, they are the same person. Creepy.

Um....

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

... try to find /any/ original storyline in the last 1000 years or so. Good luck.

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[OrochimaruVoldemort]

that rules out most of them, but i believe the new testament counts, lol

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[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Naw, that's why I didn't say /two/ thousand years :)

Found one

[OrochimaruVoldemort]

i'm pretty sure the Lord of The Rings Trilogy counts