Why can't Harry talk to the basilisk?

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Tom Riddle sets the basilisk on Harry he tells him, "Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter! [The basilisk] only obeys me!" So naturally with this information, Harry doesn't even attempt to speak to it, even though he could.
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Why did Harry not speak to the basilisk?

Harry didn't know he had a part of the Heir of Slytherin's soul in him. He didn't want to believe or even test whether he was the the heir of Slytherin too as was Tom Riddle. He was busy trying to RUN from it. He didn't have the guts to check wheather looking into basilisk eyes would kill him or not.
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Can Harry talk to 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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Why can only Harry hear the basilisk?

Harry is the only one who can hear Tom Riddle controlling the basilisk because he is a parsel tongue. When the dueling club is started he tells the snake not to attack Justin. Everyone hears a hissing sound from Harry's mouth. They do not understand what he is saying, but can tell he is talking to the snake.
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Why did the basilisk venom not destroy the Horcrux in Harry?

So, in conclusion, the reason the last (Harry) Horcrux was not destroyed from Basilisk bite was because the Phoenix tears stopped the venom spread and healed the damage before the Horcrux vessel (Harry) was completely destroyed.
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Why Can't Harry Control the Basilisk?



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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Why was there no Gryffindor Horcrux?

First, the sword could only be pulled out by a true Gryffindor. Second, I don't think something that is used to destroy a horcrux can be made into one. I mean it had the ability to destroy horcruxes, so the horcrux won't be able to settle in it.
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Is nagini the 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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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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Is Harry the Heir of Slytherin?

Harry was never the true Heir of Slytherin through his family line. He was able to speak to snakes due to having part of Voldemort's soul embedded in his lightning-shaped scar (CS18, DH33). The "Heir" was the soul-bit of Tom Riddle left behind in the Horcrux diary.
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Did Harry Potter lose his Parseltongue?

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.
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Is Harry still a Parselmouth?

Harry can no longer speak it

Once the part of Voldemort's soul that dwelled inside Harry was destroyed, however, Harry discovered he was no longer a Parselmouth; an added bonus of Voldemort's demise.
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How did Ron know Parseltongue?

It could be that there's a magical component to his understanding - he duplicated the innate magical ability of Parselmouths, and he uses that to translate. It's also possible that he learned how to interpret the language's phonemes.
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What did Harry and bathilda say in Parseltongue?

When Harry and Hermione are on the first floor of Bathilda's house, Nagini (inside the corpse of Bathilda) tells Harry to "Come!" from the next room in Parseltongue. In reaction, Hermione jumps and clutches Harry's arm, and the two of them obey the command.
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Why can only 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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Did Hermione know Harry was a Horcrux?

People have taken this, together with this scene where Harry says "I think I've known for a while, and I think you have too," to mean that Hermione realised that Harry was a horcrux (okay, not a horcrux but let's call him that for simplicity's sake).
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Why do spiders fear the basilisk?

It has been theorised that spiders fear Basilisks because arachnids can see nearly 360-degrees around them and cannot shut their eyes, leaving them extremely vulnerable to the monster's killing gaze.
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Who is the heir of Ravenclaw?

The Heir of Ravenclaw was an individual prophesized by the centaur Harmonthrep (Ajrand) to bring honor and glory to the House of Ravenclaw. The Heir of Ravenclaw was in time revealed to be Brian Dumbledore (Ajrand).
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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 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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How did Tom Riddle get Nagini?

During this time, Voldemort killed a witch called Bertha Jorkins, and J. K. Rowling confirmed it was through her murder that he turned Nagini into a Horcrux. But Nagini was reintroduced in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which complicated the previous assumption that he'd met her in Albania.
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Why did Nagini turn evil?

Nonetheless, despite her initially benevolent nature, Nagini's blood curse eventually turned her into a snake permanetly. Though it is unknown if she became evil as a result of that, or was turned evil as a result of Voldemort turning her into a Horcrux. As a snake, Nagini was completely loyal to Lord Voldemort.
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Are there 7 or 8 Horcruxes?

Yeah. There were 8 horcruxes. 7 were made by Voldemort intentionally ( Nagini, goblet, diary, locket, ring, diadem and the part of his soul in Voldemort himself) and 1 was made accidentally which was Harry.
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What was one thing Harry saw as he and Dumbledore?

Dumbledore showed Ogden's memory to Harry during one of their private lessons in Half-Blood Prince. Bob Ogden was dead by the time Harry saw this memory – he was around when Lord Voldemort's mother, Merope Gaunt, was barely out of girlhood.
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What Slytherin relic did Voldemort turn into a Horcrux?

Later, Smith's family discovered the cup and the locket were both missing, but by then Riddle had already quit his job and disappeared, not to be seen or heard from again for a decade. Riddle murdered a Muggle tramp and used that murder to make the locket into a Horcrux.
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