This incident was one of the few events in Riddle's transformation into the feared dark wizard,įifty years later, the monster was awoken once more to finish the job after Riddle's shade from the Diary possessed Ginny Weasley and used her to open the Chamber of Secrets.
The Basilisk was sent to slumber once more within the recesses of the Chamber. To prevent his beloved Hogwarts from closing, Riddle called off the snake and framed Rubeus Hagrid and his illegal pet, Aragog the Acromantula, as the ones responsible. She petrified many students and ended up killing one girl (Moaning Myrtle), sending the school into a panic and threatening its closure. The beast was summoned up by Slytherin's descendant and heir, Tom Marvolo Riddle, in 1943, to continue her original purpose and purge Hogwarts of those "unworthy to attend" (Muggle-Borns). ~ Harry Potter and Aragog about the Basilisk. Harry Potter: But if you're not the monster, then what did kill that girl 50 years ago?Īragog: We do not speak of it! It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others. The Basilisk lived for two hundred years, unless killed, and she posed a serious threat, which would be seen in the twelfth century. There were no recorded sightings of Basilisks, but Hogwarts co-founder Salazar Slytherin himself bred a Basilisk deep within Hogwarts castle, marking the beginning of the Basilisk's reign of terror in the school. The Basilisk was especially feared by spiders, with them even fearing to name it, presumably because of their eight-eye vision which would render them vulnerable to paralysis.
The Basilisk was considered the enemy of almost everything, the enemy of humans, spiders, and roosters. The first member of these creatures was created in ancient Greece by Herpo the Foul and was one of the first examples of the Dark Arts and was considered highly dangerous, inhumane and illegal to breed. ~ Harry Potter, reading information on the Basilisk.
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. Its methods of killing are most 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. This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. Heinreich Volmer in A Cure for Wellness, Dracula in Monster Family, Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery, SkekSo in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and Dick Dastardly in Scoob!. She was voiced by Jason Isaacs, who also played Lucius Malfoy in the same franchise, Colonel Mekum in Soldier, William Tavington in The Patriot, Captain James Hook in the 2003 Peter Pan film, Zhao in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ra's al Ghul in Batman: Under the Red Hood, Satan in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels, Dr. Norris, Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Nearly Headless Nick, Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater since they witnessed the monster and did not make direct eye contact (except Nick but he was already dead). The Basilisk escaped inside the school and petrified a few people which included Filch's cat Mrs. She lived in the Chamber of Secrets until Ginny Weasley (possessed by part of Tom Riddle's soul contained in his Diary) opened the Chamber of Secrets. A member of these monstrous beasts, an individual female Basilisk known as the Serpent of Slytherin which belonged to Hogwarts co-founder Salazar Slytherin, served as the secondary antagonist of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. ~ Serpent of Slytherin speaks in Parseltongue, heard only by Tom Riddle and Harry Potter.īasilisks are a race of giant, dreaded serpentine monsters bred by Dark Wizards featured in the Harry Potter series.
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