Talk:Basilisk

How can you talk to a snake? It's a known fact that all Snakes are deaft.
 * This is a fantasy world, dear. Anything can happen. Hermione1980 20:21, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

O.K. Snakes can hear the sound of Parselmouths because of magic, the snake at the zoo was a normal "deaft" snake (it didnt reacted when Vernom and Dugley banged on the glass), and yet, it heard Harry Potter speeking Parseltongue. So the Basilisk can hear Parseltongue, but when it was blind, it was listening for Harry's footsteps. There's no magic in footsteps. So how could the Basilisk him? Is the Basilisk the only snake in the world with ears?