
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, and SkekSo in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The Basilisk was voiced by Jason Isaacs, who also played Lucius Malfoy in the same franchise, Ra's al Ghul in Batman: Under the Red Hood, Satan in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot, Dick Dastardly in Scoob!, Admiral Zhao in Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars: Rebels, Captain Hook in the 2003 Peter Pan film, 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. 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 Salazar Slytherin, served as the secondary antagonist in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, behind Lord Voldemort's Horcrux and Lucius Malfoy. ~ Serpent of Slytherin speaks in Parseltongue, heard only by Tom Riddle and Harry Potter.īasilisks are a race of giant, dreaded serpent-like monsters ever bred by Dark Wizards featured in the Harry Potter series.
