Released April 23, 2025 (build basilisk-mn.417772)
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B is for Basilisk
The problem with being a kid from the Harry Potter generation is that it's genuinely hard to find a did you know fact that seems unknown enough to be interesting.
The Basilisk makes spiders run in terror? Duh!
Looking a basilisk in the eye is fatal, but seeing its gaze through another only petrifies you? Tell me something I don't know!
Basilisk venom can kill a person within minutes, and destroy Horcruxes? Well, now you're just bragging about paying attention.
But if you're wondering where the basilisks came from, the answer might be a little stranger than you think. While there are male and female basilisks, they don't breed. In fact, according to the works of Newt Scamander, basilisks are created by hatching a chicken egg under a toad.
Not that you asked me, but that feels a little too easy for such a fantastical and deadly beast. It's almost enough to make you grateful the price of eggs makes basilisk breeding out of reach for us muggles.