The Baslik

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Did I miss something?
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I think they made an extreamly large and detrimental mistake with the basilik in the movie. When in the book Tom says to Harry "The Basilik may be blind but it can still smell you" but in the movie he says it can still hear you, snakes can hardly hear at all. Their main sense is smell. So then it has Harry cornered and it could obviously smell him then Harry throws a rock making a very small noise that even a much smaller snake wouldn't hear. It could maybe feel the vibrations but Harry was right infront of him, there is no way he could have escaped.

I think you're preachin to the choir here.
The movies reek.
I didn't notice that detail, but it doesn't surprise me.

The movies do have a certain... bad quality to them. Anyone who has never picked up a book would say it is a great movie. But those that have read them know better. the movies leave to much stuff out.

Yeah, where's the ultimate in comic relief in the movies? Peeves?

Well, a basilisk is not a snake, so you can't compair everything it does to a snake. It could be very possible that a basilisk can hear well. Also, don't forget that Harry was cornered and threw the rock to save himself in the movie AND the book.

I don't remember a direct statement, but the book strongly implies that the basilisk is a snake.
(1) The natural enemies thing with the spiders scurrying and Aragog's remarks.
(2) something about Fawkes, another natural enemies thing between snakes and birds.
(3) The basilisk responds to parseltongue.

I don't remember that.

Yes, but it could have some diffences than the snakes that we know of it doesn't have to be exactly like any snake it could have some unique qualities, ya kno.

I do.