My body can be digitized

Chapter 136 Questions
"At school, they think Hagrid recently let out a - a - something against the students. They took him to Azkaban."

Click, click, Aragog flapped his pincers angrily, and the sound was echoed by the swarm of spiders in the hollow; it was like applause, except the usual applause wouldn't make Harry gag with terror.

"But that was many years ago," Aragog said angrily. "Many, many years ago. I remember it well. That's why they let him leave the school. They believed me It was the monster that lived in what they called the Chamber of Secrets. They thought it was Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets and let me out."

"So you...you didn't come out of the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry asked, feeling a cold sweat on his brow.

"I!" said Aragog, clacking his pincers angrily, "I was not born in a castle. I came from a far land. When I was not hatched from an egg, a tourist sent me to To Hagrid. Hagrid was just a boy, but he took care of me, hid me in a cupboard in the castle, and fed me the crumbs that were scattered on the table. Hagrid was a good friend of mine, and he A good man. He protected me when people found me and held me accountable for a girl's death. I've lived in the woods ever since, and Hagrid came to see me often. He even And found me a wife—Mossag. You see how prosperous our family is, and it's all thanks to Hagrid..."

Harry mustered what little courage he had left.

"Then you never—never attacked anyone?"

"No," said the old spider resentfully, "I have this instinct, but out of respect for Hagrid, I never hurt a person. The body of the murdered girl was found in a bathroom ...and I've never seen any part of the castle except the cupboard I grew up in. We spiders love darkness and silence..."

"But then... do you know what killed the girl?" said Harry, "because whatever it was, it's come back to attack people—"

Suddenly, there was a clattering sound, and countless long legs
He moved rustlingly; huge black figures dangled around him.

"The fellow that lives in the castle," said Aragog, "is an ancient creature that we spiders fear most. I remember well, pleading with the sea, when I sensed the beast moving about the school. Please let me go."

"What is it?" Ron asked eagerly, but Harry already knew what it was, so he was more concerned about Hagrid's purpose for bringing them here.

The clicking sound became louder, the rustling sound became denser, and the spiders seemed to be gathering around.

"We won't tell!" said Aragog passionately. "We won't tell its name! I didn't even tell Hagrid the name of that horrible creature, though he asked me, many times."

Harry didn't want to push the subject any further, especially with the spiders gathering from all directions.Aragog didn't seem to want to talk anymore.It retreated slowly into its hemispherical web, but its spider mates were still moving slowly, inch by inch, towards Harry and Ron.

"Let's go then," Harry called desperately to Aragog, hearing the leaves rustle behind him.

"Go?" Aragog said slowly, "I don't think..."

"But—but—"

"My sons and daughters obeyed my orders and did no harm to Hagrid. But fresh human flesh came to their door automatically, and I couldn't stop them from enjoying it. Farewell, friends of Hagrid..."

Harry turned, and a few paces away, high above him, the spiders formed a solid, towering wall of brass, claws clacking together, eyes gleaming on those hideous black heads shine...

Harry was reaching for his wand, but he knew it wasn't going to help.There were too many of them, but just as he was struggling to stand up and fight desperately, a high-pitched and long voice suddenly sounded, and a dazzling light illuminated the entire depression.

Mr. Weasley's car rumbled down the slope, its headlights flashing and its horn screeching, knocking the spiders aside; stop.With a screeching sound, the car stopped in front of Harry and Ron, and the doors slammed open.

"Bring on your teeth!" Harry yelled, slipping into the front seat.Ron grabbed the barking hound by the middle and threw him into the backseat.The car door slammed shut.Ron didn't touch the gas, but the car didn't need him to do anything; the engine roared and they set off, knocking down more spiders.They galloped quickly up the slope and out of the hollow.Soon, they were on a rampage through the woods.The car followed a route it was obviously familiar with, turning left and right cleverly, looking for the widest gap.

Harry turned to look at Ron. His mouth was still open in a silent scream, but his eyeballs were no longer bulging.

"Are you OK?"

Ron stared straight ahead, unable to utter a word.

They rushed through the low bushes with a splash, Fang growling loudly from the backseat.Harry saw that the mirrors on the sides of the car had been knocked off as they squeezed past a large oak tree.After ten minutes of noisy, bumpy galloping, the trees thinned out, and Harry could see patches of night sky again.

The car stopped, too suddenly.Due to inertia, they almost hit the windshield.They have come to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.Fang Fang rushed to the car window, impatient to come out.As soon as Harry opened the car door, it shot through the bushes like an arrow, with its tail between its legs, and ran towards Hagrid's cabin.Harry got out of the car too, and after about a minute
Ron seemed to have regained the feeling in his limbs and came down, but his neck was still stiff and his eyes were staring straight.Harry patted the car gratefully and it turned back into the woods and disappeared.

Harry went back to Hagrid's cabin to get the Invisibility Cloak.Fang shivered under the blanket in the basket.When Harry came out of the cabin, he found Ron throwing up in the pumpkin patch.

"Follow the spider," said Ron weakly, wiping his mouth on his sleeve. "I'll never forgive Hagrid. We're lucky we're alive."

"I bet he thought Aragog wouldn't hurt his friend," said Harry.

"Here's Hagrid's problem!" said Ron, thumping on the wall of the hut. "He always thought monsters weren't as bad as people make them out to be. Just look at what happened to him! Locked in Azkaban." In a cell!" He began to tremble uncontrollably. "What's the point of sending us there? I wonder what the hell we've figured out?"

"Found out that Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets," said Harry, throwing the Cloak over Ron and poking him in the arm to make him move. "He's innocent."

(End of this chapter)