Chapter 26 Spiders and Unknown Creatures
Section 1
Harry and Ron decide to enter the Forbidden Forest to find clues about the secret room. After dinner, Harry took out the invisible clothes from the box and sat on it all night, waiting for everyone in the common room to be exposed. Fred and George challenged Harry and Ron to play the wizard card, and Ginny watched. She sat in Hermione's usual seat, feeling down. Harry and Ron kept losing intentionally, trying to end the game early, but even so, it was already midnight when Fred, George and Ginny went to bed.
Harry and Ron waited for two sounds of the dormitory closing in the distance before they grabbed the invisible closure, put them on their bodies, and crawled out from the entrance of the portrait cave.
The journey through the castle was also very difficult, and they had to do everything possible to hide from the teacher. Finally, they finally arrived at the hall and sneaked behind the locks of the two oak doors. The two tried to squeeze out the cracks of the door, trying not to make a squeak, and then came to the bright moonlight site.
"Harry—" A call that sounded like a whisper in his ears came, which stunned Harry, turned his head to look at Ron.
"What's wrong with you?" Ron asked.
"You were calling me just now?" Harry said uncertainly, "I heard someone calling me..."
"I said nothing..." Ron's face turned pale and he looked around nervously, "You mean, you heard that voice again..."
Harry shook his head, "Maybe it's an illusion."
Ron couldn't help but shrink his neck, "Hey, buddy, this makes me a little furious."
They strided through the dark grass and came to Hagrid's cottage, looking at the dark windows sadly and sadly. Harry pushed the door open, and when Yaya saw them, he was ecstatic. They were afraid that its deep and thick barking would wake up the people in the castle, so they quickly took the creamy candy from a can on the mantel for it to eat, and glued its teeth.
Harry put the invisible cloak on the table of Hagrid. It was not necessary in the dark woods.
"Come on, Yaya, let's go for a walk," Harry said, patting its hind legs. Yaya happily followed them out of the cottage, running towards the edge of the woods, and raised one leg beside a large Sikmo fig tree.
Harry took out his wand and murmured, "The fluorescent light flashed!" So a light beam appeared on the wand's head, just enough for them to observe whether there were any spider shadows on the road.
"Good idea," said Ron, "I want my wand to shine, too, but you know, if it doesn't work well, it will explode..."
Harry patted Ron on the shoulder and pointed to the grass. Two lonely spiders were rushing away from the light of their wands and drilling into the dark shadows of the tree.
"Okay," Ron sighed, as if he had to meet the worst fate, "I'm ready. Let's go."
So they entered the woods, and teeth ran around them, sniffing the roots and leaves all the way. With the light of Harry's wand, they followed the spiders who kept crawling along the path.
After walking for about twenty minutes, no one spoke, but just listened carefully to the sound of the branches breaking and the rustling leaves. Then, the trees became denser and the stars above their heads were invisible. Harry's wand shone glimmers in the boundless darkness, and at this time they found that the spider guides had deviated from the path.
"Harry, don't go--" Another whisper, "In danger, don't go, Harry--"
Harry was sure that this was not an illusion, and his voice was low and clear, just as someone called him in his ear. He looked around. The forest at night seemed gloomy and terrifying. Outside the range illuminated by the slight light at the tip of the staff, there was a darkness that could not be seen in five fingers. But for no reason, the mysterious whisper made Harry feel a little familiar. The voice told him that there was danger. Harry had no doubt that he never thought it was safe to enter the Forbidden Forest in the night. Harry looked at Ron, and he looked at him very nervous, as if he was worried that an ugly big spider would pounce on him at any time. Harry shook his head, worried that if he told Ron now that a ghostly voice came, Ron would probably turn around and leave.
Harry stopped, trying to see the direction of the spider moving. He had never been deep into the middle of the woods before. He clearly recalled that the last time he entered the woods with Sauron, Hager had warned him not to deviate from the path in the woods. But at this moment, Sauron was missing, and Hager was sitting thousands of miles away, probably in Azkaban's cell, and he had also said he would follow the spider.
Something touched Harry's hand, he jumped back and pointed the wand forward, accidentally stepped on Ron's foot, but it turned out to be just the nose of the teeth.
"What do you think?" Harry said to Ron. He could just tell Ron's eyes, and the glimmer of a wand reflected in his pupils.
"We've gone so far," Ron said.
So they followed the spider's running shadow into the bushes. They could not walk very quickly now, with roots and stumps everywhere blocking the road, and could not be seen in the almost pitch-black light. Harry could feel the warm breath of teeth spraying on his hands. They were forced to stop more than once, and Harry squatted down and looked for the traces of the spider in the light of his wand.
It seemed that they had been walking for at least half an hour, and their clothes were often hung by low branches and thorny vines. After a while, they noticed that the ground seemed to be tilting down, although the trees were still as dense as before.
At this moment, Yaya suddenly barked loudly, echoing in the woods, scaring Harry and Ron out of their bodies.
"What?" Ron said loudly, looking into the darkness, grabbing Harry's elbow hard.
"Something was moving there," Harry gasped, "Listen... it's like a big guy."
They listened carefully. A distance away to their right, the big thing was setting off a path from the bushes and breaking countless branches. Harry nervously pointed his wand forward, recalling the spell that Sauron taught him.
"Oh, no," Ron said, "Oh, no, no, no, oh—"
"Shut up," Harry said furiously, "it will hear you."
"Heard me?" Ron said in a very unnatural scream, "it has heard it!"
They stood there, waiting in horror, darkness seemed to oppress their eyes. Suddenly there was a rumbling sound, and then it returned to silence.
"What do you think it's doing?" Harry asked.
"Perhaps be ready to pounce on it," said Ron.
They waited, trembling all over and did not dare to move. It seemed as if after a long time, Harry could not bear the repression and shouted, "Get rid of your weapon!"
A bright red light flashed, blowing a lot of passing branches.
"Cool." Ron whispered, "Do you think it's gone?"
"have no idea--"
At this moment, a dazzling light suddenly appeared on their right, which was dazzling in the darkness. Both of them raised their hands to block their eyes. Yaya roared and wanted to escape, but was tripped by a thorn and screamed louder.
"Harry!" Ron shouted, his voice choked with a sigh of relief, "Harry, it's our car!"
"What?" Come on!"
Harry followed Ron, stumbled towards the light, and kept tripping along the way. After a while, they came to a clearing. Mr. Weasley's car stopped in the middle of a circle of dense trees, with dense branches and leaves on top, and the car was empty, and the lights emitted dazzling light. As Ron opened his mouth wide, it was slowly moving towards him, like a big green dog to greet its owner.
"So it's always here!" Ron said happily, walking around the car. "Look at it, the woods have turned it wild..." The car's wings were scratched and covered with mud. Apparently it formed the habit of moving alone in the woods. Teeth seemed to be uninterested in it; it followed Harry without hesitation. Harry could feel it trembling. Harry's breathing slowly calmed down, and he retracted his wand back into his robe.
"We thought it was going to attack us!" Ron said, leaning against the car and patting it. "I never knew where it went!"
Harry narrowed his eyes and continued to search for the shadow of the spider on the ground illuminated by the lights, but they all hurriedly avoided the dazzling headlights and ran away from where they were heading.
"Harry - leave - danger - leave - leave -" The whisper came again, Harry frowned and decided to discuss with Ron. He looked at Ron, but he didn't say he was alive, nor moved. He stared at the back of Harry, ten feet above the ground. His face turned pale and fear was written alive.
Harry didn't even have time to turn around. There was a loud clicking sound, and he suddenly felt a long, furry thing picking him up in the waist, causing him to hang his face down in the air. He struggled, in great horror, and then he heard the clicking sound again. He saw Ron's legs leave the ground, and he also saw teeth whine and growl-then it was dragged into the dark bushes.
Harry's head was hanging upside down, and he saw the guy who grabbed him walking six bizarre, thick-haired legs, two legs in front of him tightly clamping him, a pair of shiny black stings. Behind him, he could hear another animal like this, apparently holding Ron. They were moving towards the center of the woods. Harry heard teeth whimpering, trying desperately to break free from the third monster, and Harry couldn't even scream, and he seemed to leave his voice in the clearing with the car.
Harry didn't know how long he had been in the animal's claws; he knew only that the darkness seemed to fade a little suddenly, and he saw the ground covered with fallen leaves now densely packed with spiders. He twisted his neck and found that they had arrived at the edge of a wide depression, where the trees in the depression were cleared, and the stars illuminated the most terrifying sight he had ever seen in his life.
Spiders. Unlike the little spiders that crawled through the fallen leaves below, they were each as big as a horse pulling a cart, with eight eyes and eight legs, black and scattered like giants. The giant spider holding Harry walked down the steep slope and headed towards a misty, hemispherical spider web in the center of the depression, and its companions surrounded it. When they saw the things they clamped, they all excitedly moved their big claws and made a clicking sound.
The spider let go of his paws, and Harry fell to the ground. Ron and the spear fell heavily to him. The teeth no longer roared, but curled quietly. Ron looked exactly like Harry. His mouth was wide, as if he was making a silent scream, and his eyes thrust outwards. Harry suddenly realized that the spider that threw him away was talking. It was not easy to hear, because it would click and snare its big claws every time it said a word.
"Aragok!" it shouted, "Aragok!"
From the misty, hemispherical spider web, a spider as big as a small elephant came out very slowly. Its body and legs were black and gray, and each eye on its ugly head with big claws was covered with white cataracts - it was a blind man.
"What's going on?" it said, clicking, two big claws moving quickly.
"Man." said the spider who had just grabbed Harry.
"Is it Hagrid?" Aragork said, approaching a little, eight milky white eyes staring blankly.
"It's a stranger." said the spider that Ron brought.
"The power of cursed...the breath of darkness...kill them," Aragok said irritably. "I'm sleeping..."
"We are Hagrid's friends," Harry shouted. His heart seemed to be leaving his chest and jumping out of his throat.
Click, click, click, the big claws of spiders were moving everywhere in the depression. Aragork hesitated.
"Hagir never sent anyone to our depression before." It said slowly. "Hagir is in trouble," said Harry, his breathing was very rapid, "so we came." "Trouble?" said the elderly spider. Harry felt that he heard some concern in the loud clattering claws. "But why did he send you?"
Harry wanted to stand up, but later decided to lie down; he thought his legs could not support the weight of his body. He lay on the ground and spoke as calm as possible. "In school, they thought Hagrid had recently released one...a...things to harm the students. They took him to Azkaban.
"Click," Aragork danced his big claws in anger, and the sound was responded by the large group of spiders in the depression; it was like applause, but the usual applause would not make Harry feel terrified. "But that was many years ago," Aragork said angrily, "many, many years ago. I remember it very clearly. It was because of this that they asked him to leave the school. They believed that I was the monster who lived in what they called the secret room. They thought Hagrid opened the secret room and let me out."
"Then you... you didn't come out of the secret room?" Harry asked, feeling a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.
"I!" said Aragork, and the big claws clicked angrily, "I was not born in the castle. I came from a distant country. When I had not hatched from the eggs, a tourist gave me to Hagrid. Hagrid was just a child at that time, but he took care of me, hid me in a cupboard in the castle, and fed me the bread crumbs that were removed from the dining table. Hagrid was my good friend, he was a good man. When people discovered me and asked me to take responsibility for the death of a girl, he protected me. I have lived in the woods since then, and Hagrid often came to see me. He even found me a wife, Mosage. You see how prosperous our family has developed, it is all thanks to Hagrid's blessing..."
Harry mustered up the remaining bit of courage he had. "Then you never--never attacked anyone?"
"No," said the old spider resentful, "I have this instinct, but out of respect for Hagrid, I have never hurt anyone. The body of the murdered girl was found in a bathroom. And except for the cupboard I grew up in, I have never seen any part of the castle. We spiders like darkness and silence..."
"But at that time... do you know what killed the girl?" said Harry. "Because no matter what it was, now he's back to attack people-"
Suddenly, a clacking sound sounded, and countless long legs were moving rustling; huge black shadows swayed around him.
"The guy who lives in the castle," said Aragork, "is an ancient creature that our spiders fear the most. I remember clearly that when I felt the beast running around in school, I begged Hagrid to let me go."
"What is it?" Harry asked urgently. The clicking sound became louder, the sound of the Sessels became denser, and the spiders seemed to be surrounding him.
"We won't say it!" Aragork said emotionally, "We won't say its name! I didn't even tell Hagrid the name of the terrifying creature, even though he asked me, many times."
Harry didn't want to ask this topic anymore, especially as the spiders gathered from all directions. Aragork seemed to not want to speak. It slowly retreated back into his hemispherical spider web, but his spider companions were still slowly moving towards Harry and Ron inch by inch.
"Then we're leaving." Harry shouted to Aragok desperately, and at the same time he heard the rustling of the tree plan behind him. "Go?" Aragok said leisurely, "I don't think I don't..."
"But-but-"
"My children obeyed my orders and did not hurt Hagrid. But fresh human flesh came to my door automatically, and I couldn't stop them from enjoying it. Goodbye, Hagrid's friend..."
Harry turned around, and a few steps away, in the high place above him, the spiders formed a solid, towering iron wall, with big claws clicking into a circle, and many eyes shining on those ugly black heads... Harry took out his wand and pointed forward and released several disarming spells. The bright red spell seemed to knock the spiders away, but he knew it was useless, they were too many.
At this moment, without any warning, Harry was pushed out by a huge force, and a black flame suddenly burst out in front of him, spinning and bringing out a sharp sound of wind, which frightened the group of spiders approaching. The next moment, the flame condensed into something, and then, Harry, who was so stunned that he felt as if he was grabbed by a huge claw and brought it to the sky.
The wind blew violently in front of Harry's face, making him almost unable to open his eyes. Harry found himself in the air above the Forbidden Forest. The silver moonlight shone in front of him. He seemed to be caught in the claws burning with black flames. Next to him, Ron and Teeth seemed to be caught in the other claws. Ron and Teeth could be heard in the screams of Ron and the bark of terror. Harry tried to shout at Ron, but a mouth filled his mouth. The black flame did not burn Harry, but it blocked his sight. Harry could not see what was above his head and grabbed them, but could hear the loud noise of huge wings flapping in the air. Harry was very nervous. Although they had escaped from the terrifying big spiders in the Forbidden Forest, the huge creature that was holding them now still made him nervous. I wonder if he would eat him and Ron as snacks in the stomach.
But soon, Harry found that they were flying towards the castle. After a few dozen seconds, they flew out of the Forbidden Forest and above the large grass leading to the castle. Soon, Harry was frightened to find that the huge creature was rushing towards the ground, which made him shout out nervously. Just before they touched the ground, Harry felt that his claws were catching him burst open suddenly, and then Harry was surrounded by black flames. He felt like he was being smashed on a large mat, falling to a dizzy and dizzy. After a while, he felt someone pulling him.
"Hey! Harry-Harry, are you okay?" Ron's worried voice came, and teeth were shaking beside him.
Chapter completed!