Why do Acromantulas fear basilisks?

The basilisk was the worst enemy of all spiders, including Acromantulas. It was feared so much that they did not even dare to speak of it, similar to how wizards of Harry Potter's world viewed Lord Voldemort and used a euphemism in place of his name.
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Why Can Tom Riddle look at the basilisk?

Also, Tom Riddle can control Basilisks with his Parseltongue, so even if the Basilisk was able to kill Holograms using it's killer gaze, Tommy boy would've stopped it from looking at him by talking to the Basilisk.
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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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What are spiders scared of Harry Potter?

The webs of the Acromantula were large and dome-shaped. Spiders of all sizes feared the Basilisk above all other things, which caused those at Hogwarts to flee into the Forbidden Forest in the 1992–1993 school year.
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How did Hermione know about the basilisk?

How did Harry and Ron find out about the basilisk? How did Hermione? A ripped piece of paper on basilisks. Now we're to assume that Hermione found this in a library book and promptly ripped it out to take with her.
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Why did Draco rip a page out of a book?

"Why would Malfoy rip a page out of a random book?" the poster asks. "If he wanted the book, he could have just bought the book himself. He's not poor, his family doesn't discourage learning. He chooses to rip a particular page with a pointed glance out of a book.
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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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What killed Aragog?

That same year, Aragog contracted an unknown illness over the summer, and despite Hagrid's attempts to heal and comfort Aragog by feeding him giant grubs, he eventually died on 20 April, 1997.
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Why do spiders flee from the Basilisk?

Spiders were terrified of Basilisks, described them as their enemy and fled before them. Spiders (such as the Acromantula) also refused to even speak of it or mention its name.
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Why is Ron afraid of spiders?

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 12-year old Ron Weasley tells Harry and Hermione that his arachnophobia, or intense fear of spiders, is rooted in an event that happened when he was only three years old. He tells his friends that his brother turned his teddy bear into a spider, which terrified him to no end.
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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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Why did Salazar Slytherin hate muggles?

Slytherin disliked taking students from Muggle families, seeing them as untrustworthy and unworthy of being taught magic, and tried to persuade the other founders to only take students from pure-blood families.
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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 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.
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How is Ginny Weasley the heir of Slytherin?

The story of Chamber of Secrets, as you know, is that the Heir of Slytherin has returned and he's out for Mudbloods. The Heir of Slytherin turns out to be Ginny Weasley, who is being controlled via a magical diary that once belonged to Tom Riddle, AKA Voldemort.
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Why is Harry not 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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What kills a basilisk?

According to some legends, basilisks can be killed by hearing the crow of a rooster or gazing at itself in a mirror. The latter method of killing the beast is featured in the legend of the basilisk of Warsaw, killed by a man carrying a set of mirrors.
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Why can the 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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Who controls the basilisk?

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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Who killed Fred Weasley?

Fred was killed in an explosion possibly caused by Augustus Rookwood. One of the last things Fred heard before dying was Percy joking about resigning from the Ministry.
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Is Newt Hagrid's dad?

Short and sweet - Newt Scamander.
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Why did Aragog look smaller?

The creature shop realised that constructing the Acromantula would be more economical than CGI, and it would also allow them to make Aragog walk and talk on a life-size scale. Aragog was completely redesigned for Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince to show his age.
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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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How did Nagini meet Voldemort?

It is worth noting that she knew Voldemort when he killed Bertha Jorkins in Albania. As she had the name of Nagini before she permanently became a snake, it is possible that Voldemort met or acquired her before her permanent transformation, or found out her name through Parseltongue.
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Why is Nagini loyal to Voldemort?

Nagini is loyal to Voldemort because he can speak with snakes. As a Maledictus, there probably isn't much time after the events in The Crimes of Grindelwald before Nagini falls to her blood curse, becoming a snake forever.
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