Pottermore, Chacter 15

The fact that you can make a good Hermione Polyjuice potion at the age of twelve years is testimony enough of his outstanding magical ability, because it is a potion that many adults fear witches and wizards prepare.

Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam terrible our land, there is no more surprising or more deadly than the Basilisk, known as the king of snakes. This snake, which may reach gigantic size and whose life takes several centuries, born of a hen's egg hatched by a toad. Its methods of killing are most extraordinary, as well as deadly venomous fangs, the Basilisk kills with his eyes, and all those fijaren your eyes on the twinkle in his eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee the basilisk, because that is his mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only Ridge ga-ment, which he is mortal.

 

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