That defense was no longer an option. Unless I hatched a new Basilisk and applied the same training as Salazar did. The problem would be that only Harry, and technically Voldemort, could properly do that. I wasn’t a true Parseltongue, I just knew the language. I was only close to Sica because I was there when Salazar trained and raised her. It wouldn’t feel right and practical to not train a Basilisk correctly.