What was the name of the snake in Chamber of Secrets?
The Serpent of Slytherin (c. 993 - 29 May 1993) was a female Basilisk that was placed by Salazar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Basilisk could only be controlled by the Heir of Slytherin, Tom Riddle.
Basilisk in Mythology. The English term basilisk stems from the Latin word basiliscus and the French word basilic, but the name actually originates from the Greek term basiliskos, meaning “a kinglet, a kind of snake.” Historically, snakes are considered to be symbols of evil or of the devil.
time to kill... so hungry... for so long. I smell blood! I SMELL BLOOD! Serpent of Slytherin speaks in Parseltongue, heard only by Tom Riddle and Harry Potter.
Looking into the eye of the Basilisk will cause instantaneous death, however, even catching a glance of it in a reflection will cause Petrification, or total paralysis. Created by hatching a chicken egg under a toad, Basilisk breeding was banned in the medieval age due to the danger they posed.
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Could Harry have talked to the basilisk?
As a Parselmouth, Harry can easily communicate with Basilisk but I don't think he could controlled it as if he has the Basilisk under his will (or make it loyal to him) but more like he can influenced its behavior and take advantage to defeat it. Yes. Harry could have controlled the snake with Parseltongue.
In 1993, Harry Potter stabbed the roof of the Basilisk's mouth with the Sword of Gryffindor and ended up getting a fang splintered into his arm. Tom Riddle described the venom as being able to kill Harry in a little more than a minute, though Fawkes's tears healed Harry's arm and cleansed the poison.
Newt Scamander classified the basilisk as a wizard killer that couldn't be domesticated. Yet, Herpo was able to control his. This had nothing to do with the fact that he was the breeder, and Harry Potter proved that being a Parselmouth wasn't enough - it must have been a Horcrux.
Some have speculated that accounts and descriptions of cobras may have given rise to the legend of the basilisk. Cobras can maintain an upright posture, and, as with many snakes in overlapping territories, are often killed by mongooses. The Indian cobra has a crown-like symbol on its head.
Delphini was born in secret at Malfoy Manor in early March 1998 as the result of a liaison between Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldemort. On 2 May 1998, both of her biological parents were killed in the Battle of Hogwarts.
This monster, however, feared weasels, probably because weasels are snake's predators. But his greatest fear was the morning song of the rooster because the Basilisk came apparently from an egg of decrepate's rooster. Also, if a man saw him first, he had nothing to fear from him.
In Hellenic and Roman legend, a basilisk (also called a cockatrice) was a serpent-like creature capable of destroying other creatures by way of its deadly stare.
Nagini is NOT the Basilisk and does not live at Hogwarts. She doesn't have to get out, because she was never 'in'. It is only when Harry sees Snape's memory of his conversation with Dumbledore regarding the snake that he realizes that it is probably a Horcrux too.
Colin Creevey — saw the Basilisk through his camera; the Basilisk's gaze also burned his camera's film to a crisp. Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington — saw the Basilisk directly through himself, but, as a ghost, he could not die again.
Basilisk was Slytherin's monster, who can be controlled only by his descendent. Tom riddle was his direct descendent. While Harry got his ability to speak parseltounge because he had a part of Voldemort's soul in him.
Salazar Slytherin's basilisk was born in the chamber, as revealed by Aragog. Slytherin, in his spite of the his fellow founders' acceptance of muggle-borns into the school, left a basilisk deep in the chamber, in hopes that one day his true heir will unleash her to purge all they deem unworthy to study magic.
As Salazar Slytherin was his ancestor and Tom was a parselmouth, he opened the Chamber of Secrets and controlled Basilisk. He had no intentions to make Basilisk part of his army. Voldemort did not have any use of the Basilisk because he could use the killing curse outside Hogwarts.
Why did the Basilisk Fang not destroy Harry's Horcrux?
Fawkes healed him w/his tears. Yall this question is easily answered by the fact that he didn't die and was healed by fawkes. bc harry has to actually die in order for it to be destroyed....
Why was Harry's Horcrux not destroyed by the Basilisk?
As Hermione explains in The Deathly Hallows, a Horcrux is reliant upon its container for survival. To destroy a Horcrux, you have to damage whatever it lives in beyond magical repair. Fawkes healed Harry, so the Horcrux survived as well.
The only way to destroy the Horcrux inside Harry is by killing Harry, which is the equivalent of destroying beyond repair. Harry didn't died in the chamber of secrets because although the Basiliks is poisonous Fawkes saved him. So an alive Harry means that the Horcrux is still there.
After Lord Voldemort destroyed the fragment of his soul residing in Harry, Harry seemingly lost the ability to speak Parseltongue, about which he was glad and relieved. Over the next twenty-two years, he never attempted to speak the language, presuming that it had died with Voldemort.
Why didn't Harry use Parseltongue to control the basilisk?
Of course, at that moment, Harry Potter didn't know there was a piece of Voldemort's soul in him, so he wouldn't have even tried to communicate with the Basilisk, but had he tried and succeeded at it, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets would have ended very differently.
