Timeline for Will a Basilisk get petrified if it sees itself in a mirror?
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| Oct 14, 2018 at 14:40 | history | edited | lfurini | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | Rosme | @T.E.D. But a snake is cold blooded, so maybe a cold blooded like a toad is sufficient due to magical properties. This is pure speculation of course. | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 13:04 | history | edited | Voronwé | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 0:37 | comment | added | childcat15 | @T.E.D. J.K. Rowling didn't specify. I don't think she was too concerned about the actual feasibility of it happening naturally. It begs the question, does a toad just have to sit on it at the moment of hatching? If so, does the fully formed chick suddenly transfigure into a basilisk? Or does the toad need to tend to the egg like a mother and that causes a basilisk to form, in which case it may not need heat? | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @childcat15 - Chicken eggs need sitting to provide warmth, and toads are cold-blooded, so likely some (unmentioned) extra help beyond just the toad is required. | |
| Aug 23, 2015 at 18:54 | comment | added | childcat15 | "This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg hatched beneath a toad" | |
| Aug 23, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | childcat15 | @ThomasWeinbrenner they don't, basilisks are hatched in very strange conditions. Something like a snake egg sat on by a rooster or vice versa, I don't remember it exactly | |
| Aug 23, 2015 at 18:38 | comment | added | user47812 | Do basilisks reproduce like other creatures? If they do, then they are most likely immune to the gaze of their mate. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 7:28 | history | answered | user13267 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |