How long can a basilisk live?

While the common basilisk is most known for its ability to run on water, it is also an excellent climber and swimmer, and has been known to stay underwater for up to half an hour. The average lifespan is seven years in captivity; in the wild, it tends to be less because of predators.
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How long can a Basilisk live Harry Potter?

Basilisks can live a natural life of at least nine hundred years, though Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk lived for approximately a thousand years.
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How did the basilisk live so long?

Harry lowered his wand to look at the floor and saw that it was littered with small animal bones. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them explains that Basilisks stay alive by eating any and all mammals, birds, and most reptiles.
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Is Basilisk a real snake?

According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk of Cyrene is a small snake, "being not more than twelve fingers in length", that is so venomous, it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal.
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What kills a Basilisk?

They were petrified due to catching a glimpse of the Basilisk's reflection. Riddle's ultimate goal was to lure Harry Potter into the Chamber and kill him. Harry Potter ultimately slayed Slytherin's Basilisk by stabbing her through the roof of the mouth with the Sword of Gryffindor.
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Why do basilisks fear Roosters?

Basilisk is born by chicken egg hatched by toad. As creature made is hatched by toad , so a rooster may recognize toad hatching his eggs and catch the coupe. This may be the reason as why basilisk considers rooster as it's mortal enemy.
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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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Is basilisk bigger than titanoboa?

Titanoboas were around 40 ft long and 2,500 lbs. Basilisks, at least the one we saw in Harry Potter, was around 50 feet long.
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Who is the god of snake?

Manasa, goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and general prosperity.
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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 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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Is a basilisk a dragon?

The Basilisk's(Draco basilikos) status as a dragon is arguable, as some think it a psuedo-dragon while others believe it to be mythical. It's based on the mythical Basilisk.
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Was the basilisk a Horcrux?

So why wasn't the Horcrux residing in Harry's head destroyed when he was bitten by the Basilisk? The answer is simple: He didn't actually die. Fawkes quickly healed the bite wound with his phoenix tears just in time.
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Was the basilisk a female?

The Serpent of Slytherin 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.
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Could Harry have controlled the basilisk?

Harry might have been able to control the basilisk - he never tried. Harry heard the basilisk in the pipes - but he never tried to speak to it, either when he heard it or when he was in the Chamber of Secrets with Tom Riddle.
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Who created the first Basilisk?

One of the earliest accounts of the basilisk comes from Pliny the Elder's Natural History, written in roughly 79 C.E. He describes the catoblepas, a monstrous cow-like creature.
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Do serpents exist?

Tales of sea serpents may be among the oldest stories of humankind, told in many parts of the world. Sea snakes are real animals, found in the Indian Ocean and southern Pacific.
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Who created snake?

Snake first appeared on a Nokia device in 1997 on the Nokia 6110. It was adapted for Nokia devices by Taneli Armanto, a Design Engineer, User Interface Software. FIVE. Snake was one of three games introduced in 1997, the others were Logic and Memory.
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What is a Naga?

Naga is the Sanskrit word for "snake." In South India, a cobra nest may become a shrine to the mythical Naga.
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What if Titanoboa was still alive?

Humans might be an ideal snack. Places such as Australia seem to co-exist with dangerous snakes, but the sheer massiveness of a titanoboa would dwarf anything we're used to. Titanoboas would prefer a hot, damp, jungle-like area, like the Amazon. Snakes rely on heat from outside their bodies to survive.
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Who would win Titanoboa vs Megalodon?

Megalodon would win a fight against Titanoboa. The monster snake is a one-trick pony, and that trick isn't any good against a massive shark. Even if it managed to wrap about the shark, it's much too small to kill it. Megalodon was about 9 feet across and weighed 100,000lbs.
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What is world's largest snake?

The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is the longest snake in the world, regularly reaching over 6.25 metres in length.
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Who killed Hedwig?

With the issue of Harry's iconic owl at the forefront, Jo Marie Walker continues to explain that the Death Eater that kills Hedwig is none other than Snape.
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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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Can you learn Parseltongue?

The ability to speak Parseltongue is usually inborn; a wizard is born being able to speak Parseltongue, and those who are not born with the ability cannot normally learn the language (although, according to the author, Dumbledore may have learned to understand it, and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron learnt ...
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