Can Voldemort look at the basilisk?

Conclusion; neither Tom Riddle, Harry Potter, or any other person who can talk Parseltongue is immune to the stare of a Basilisk.
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Is Voldemort immune to Basilisk gaze?

No. A basilisk can kill itself by its own stare. Quiet possibly only Voldemort was immune to it's stare due to his horcruxes and Harry Potter was saved by Fawkes the Phoenix who destroys basilisks eyes before he made contact with Harry.
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What happens if you look at a Basilisk?

Looking a Basilisk directly in the eye caused instant death, but an indirect look would merely render the victim Petrified. It was also the mortal enemy of spiders. Spiders refused to speak of the Basilisk, could intuitively sense their presence, and would flee whenever they sensed them.
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Can Harry look at the basilisk?

Harry's ability to look at the basilisk is irrelevant to his ability to speak Parseltongue. A basilisk can kill with its stare, but that's presuming it has eyes. No eyes, no stare. That's almost certainly why Fawkes tore out its eyes to begin with.
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Is nagini a basilisk?

Nagini is one of many snakes featured in the series

After all, the great Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets was a huge snake, bred with Salazar Slytherin's intent to murder Muggle-borns. The Dark Mark, Lord Voldemort's 'sign', was a skull with a snake tongue.
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Why didn't Voldemort make the basilisk a Horcrux?

He couldn't

Voldemort might have needed to spend days or weeks in the chamber in order to turn the Basilisk into a Horcrux. Dumbledore might have noticed him show up weeks later looking even worse, and conclude what he had been doing.
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How did Salazar Slytherin get a Basilisk?

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.
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Why does Harry not get petrified by the basilisk?

So why wasn't the Horcrux residing in Harry's head destroyed when he was bitten by the Basilisk? Rowling's answer is simple enough. Harry wasn't destroyed by the Basilisk or its venom. He came very close, but Fawkes' tears healed him, and apparently that helped preserve the Horcrux.
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Why can basilisk venom destroy Horcruxes?

Basilisk venom is a method for destroying Horcruxes because once it takes effect, it renders the object irreparable, and the only chance for possibly repairing it is immediately putting phoenix tears on it.
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Is there only one basilisk?

The only other known Basilisk in Harry Potter canon is Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk which lived in the Chamber of Secrets. Because Basilisks are created and not bred, it would be impossible for a Basilisk to be born into the wild. So the answer is that there are no known wild Basilisks that went undiscovered.
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Why can the Sword of Gryffindor destroy Horcruxes?

As goblin's silver, it imbibed only substances which strengthened it, which could then be used against enemies. This means that it never required cleaning. Due to Harry Potter killing the Serpent of Slytherin with it, the sword was imbued with Basilisk venom and could destroy Horcruxes.
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Who petrified Mrs Norris?

Mrs. Norris was the first victim of the Serpent of Slytherin when the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened in 1992. On Halloween night she was petrified by the basilisk when she saw its reflection in a puddle of water in front of the unused bathroom, in the second floor.
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Who did the basilisk stun first?

The Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets attacks its first victim: Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris. Harry is discovered at the scene of the crime, and students start suspecting him to be the heir of Salazar Slytherin.
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Can Dumbledore see through invisibility cloaks?

Originally Answered: Can Albus dumbledore look through the invisibility cloak? No, he cannot because it is a Hallow and no spell can enable someone to see through it, not even Death can see what the cloak conceals.
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Who is the heir of Gryffindor?

Harry is the magical Heir of Gryffindor (and he's also a descendent of Godric), Neville of Hufflepuff, Hermione of Slytherin and Luna of Ravenclaw. (It was due to Dumbledore's manipulations that Neville and Hermione hadn't been put into the correct House.)
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What was the password used to get into the Slytherin common room?

The entry password was "Pure-blood" when Draco Malfoy let them in.
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Does the basilisk have a name?

Dumbledore's pheonix is called Fawks, Voldemort's snake is called Nagini and Harry's owl is called Hedwig, but no name for the basilisk.
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Can you use the killing curse on a Horcrux?

The killing curse does not seem to work against most Horcruxes, but once again, this gets into the weeds of distinction between film and book canon. The books do not present this scenario while the film directly shows the killing curse not working against Nagini.
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What else can destroy Horcruxes?

A Horcrux can be destroyed with Basilisk Venom, Fiendfyre, or the Killing Curse. The Sword of Gryffindor was useful in destroying Horcruxes because it was imbued with Basilisk Venom when Harry stabbed the monstrous snake in the Chamber of Secrets.
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Did Voldemort know the diary was destroyed?

Lord Voldemort was unaware that this Horcrux had been destroyed, until he forced the truth out of Lucius Malfoy (who did not know the diary was a Horcrux) shortly after his return to power in June of 1995, due to the portion of the soul being separated from his body for such a long time.
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Can muggles see Obscurials?

Second peice of evidence is the Obscurial attacks, it's completely invisible to the muggles that are present, up until his reveal when we are seeing it through the eyes of a wizard.
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What spell did Ron use on Nagini?

It is seen that when Nagini was going to kill Ron and Hermione, Ron used a curse with a green flash.
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What was Leta's Boggart?

Newt's Boggart was simply a boring office job, while Leta's was something much more sinister and haunting. During one lesson, her boggart transformed into the sinister image, a swaddled infant sinking into deep water. This infant was her half-brother Corvus Lestrange.
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Is Filch McGonagall's son?

There isn't even a hint of confusion to anyone who has read the books, (who would know that Professor Minerva McGonagall never married and * has no children, and that Filch's full name is Argus Filch so they don't have the same last name anyway, and also his magical family is ashamed of his being a squib and I don't ...
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