Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

No matter Chang Chu, Harry or Hermione, they have never gone as deep into the Forbidden Forest as they did today, let alone Luo, who had only heard about matters related to the Forbidden Forest through the mouths of Fred and George. Thank you.

"I, do we want to continue walking in now?" Ron's voice was extremely harsh in the silence, so even though his teeth were chattering and he was stammering when he spoke, Chang Chu and the three of them still heard clearly what Ron said.

The four people slowly stopped moving forward. In fact, they could not walk very fast just now. There were thick tree roots and strong tree stumps everywhere, and they would block the way forward every now and then.

Fortunately, the floating round lantern that Chang Chu borrowed (?) from Wright was still steadily providing an endless source of light to the four of them. Otherwise, someone would have been clamoring to quit as early as ten minutes ago.

Harry tugged hard on his robes. Along the way, their clothes often got caught on the low branches and thorns on the roadside. However, although it was said to be a roadside, in fact, the place they were walking on had already departed from the forest path that Hagrid often walked. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they walked directly into the dense trees.

"Ron, do you have anything to say?" Harry finally pulled off his robe, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he asked Ron directly.

"About how long have we been walking?" Ron stretched his neck and looked at the surrounding environment, paying special attention to the road the four of them had just walked. "We should have walked a long way, right?"

"So far, we have been walking for 47 minutes." Hermione took out a pocket watch from her pocket and said calmly, "According to our walking speed, excluding the time spent on the road blocked by those branches and having to take a detour, We were probably nearly two kilometers deep into the Forbidden Forest.”

"Then let's..."

"It's not cost-effective for us to go back the same way we came." Chang Chu seemed to have guessed Ron's thoughts and interrupted him directly, "If we go back now, the time we just spent on the road will be a meaningless waste. In addition, , we can neither find out the secret of the secret room, nor can we get the 300 points from the academy."

"Come on, Ron." Harry patted Ron's shoulder gently.

The four of them walked deeper for more than ten minutes under the guidance of the fat head, when suddenly bursts of rustling sounds sounded from the darkness. The sounds seemed to come from all directions, everywhere.

Chang Chu frowned and raised the floating round lantern from the sky to his hand. At the same time, Hermione also raised her wand with a clear conscience and released a fluorescent spell towards the sky with all her strength.

Harry and Ron held their breath nervously and looked forward.

Chang Chu flipped a switch somewhere on the floating round light, and the transparent ball that was originally glowing suddenly dimmed, and then a powerful beam of light pierced from the center of the ball toward the darkness ahead. The scene ahead It was completely revealed in the eyes of the four people.

It was definitely the most terrifying sight the four of them had ever seen in their lives.

spider.

Countless spiders.

Endless spiders.

The soil on the ground, exposed rocks, dry branches, decaying leaves, entangled tree roots, and thick branches are all covered with small black spiders. There were even many palm-sized spiders hanging down from the branches above their heads, baring their teeth and claws at the four people. Under the light, the transparent and slender spider silk spewed out from the abdomen of those spiders was clearly visible.

Ron burped loudly, and his face turned extremely pale instantly. Anyone who looked at him would think that he was about to die soon.

Hermione let out a horrific scream and threw herself directly into Chang Chu's arms, her body still shaking violently.

Chang Chu looked at the little spiders and patted Hermione's back gently, but if anyone observed her slightly shaking right hand, they would know that she was just pretending to be calm at this time.

The only one who looked relatively normal was Harry. After all, during those days spent at the Dursleys' house, the little spiders in the window were also one of his few live playmates.

The fat head suddenly let out a noisy crow, and while flapping its wings, it flew out from Chang Chu's shoulders and flew straight ahead.

Everyone knew that the Acromantula might not be far away, but the road ahead was so difficult and terrifying. Almost every time the four of them took a step forward, they would step directly on the little spiders on the ground, making a nauseating crunching sound.

I don’t know how long they walked forward, but the darkness seemed to subside a little. The four of them came to the edge of a wide depression. The trees in the depression were cleared away, and an extremely dim white light fell from the intertwined branches, faintly illuminating a layer of Another thick layer of white cobwebs.

"Who is here?" An old and weak voice came from the bottom of the depression. Every word the owner of the voice said was accompanied by a clicking sound.

But across the hollow, no one could see clearly who was speaking.

"Don't panic." Chang Chu encouraged everyone.

But then the fat head suddenly fell back on her shoulder, almost making Chang Chu scream.

"We are friends of Hagrid." Harry walked to the front of the four people and said loudly towards the depression.

There was another clicking sound.

Then, several seemingly thin and long arthropod-like spider legs poked out from the depression. Each spider leg that pulled the spider web was covered with a thick layer of black hair, and there were even about There are barbs as long as forearms.

The four of them took two small steps back in unison.

A spider as big as a small elephant slowly emerged from the misty hemispherical spider web. Its huge body and eight pairs of hairy legs were black and gray, and two long claws emerged from both sides of its ugly head. It has sprouts on its sides, and each of its eight eyes is covered with a layer of white, making people wonder whether it can see its prey clearly.

"You, you're Aragog, right?" Harry said, his breathing very rapid because his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

The moment Aragog revealed his figure, Ron's eyes popped out and his mouth opened slightly, as if this was the only breath left.

"Yes," Aragog said slowly, still twirling his large claws, "but Hagrid has never sent anyone to our hollow before."

"It happened for a reason this time," Harry said. He wanted to talk more about Hagrid, lest the seemingly untouchable old spider suddenly attack them.

But at this time, except for the topic of the Chamber of Secrets, Harry could not think of anything in his empty mind. He seemed to have trampled his thinking ability into the ground along with those little spiders.

"Hagrid asked us to ask about the Chamber of Secrets!" Chang Chu said loudly to Aragog. In order to win Aragog's trust, she also said Hagrid's name.

"Then why didn't Hagrid tell you personally?" Aragog asked.

The foursome were nervous for a while, but fortunately Aragog didn't pay too much attention to the problem just now.

"That was fifty years ago, the Chamber of Secrets. A person died that time, but it was not me." Aragog said, "A girl died that time, and her body was in a room of the castle. Found it in the bathroom, but I’ve always been in the cupboard.”

"Then do you know the location of the secret room?" Hermione asked, "The school's secret room was opened again this year! The basilisk inside was also released again -"

"Don't say that name!" Aragog twitched his spider legs with emotion, "Don't mention that monster's name to us spiders!"

Hermione immediately stopped asking the question, but Aragog wasn't prepared to continue talking without her asking. It slowly retreated into the huge depression, and together with Aragog's retreat, there were also some huge spiders gathering from all directions.

Although the spiders were not as big as Aragog, each one was as big as a cart-drawing horse, and each had eight eyes and eight legs.

What's more important is that their number far exceeds that of Aragog, to the point where they can't even be counted.

"Oh, thank you, Aragog." Harry said softly, lest his voice attract the spiders instantly, "Then we'll leave now."

"Let's go?" Aragog stopped and said slowly, "I don't think so..."

"But - but -"

"My children will not harm Hagrid because of my order, but when fresh meat comes to the door..." Aragog stepped back again, "I can't stop them anymore... "

"Goodbye, Hagrid's friend..." The old spider's voice slowly floated out from the bottom of the depression until it was indistinct.

"Quack!"

"Then go to hell! Stinky spiders!"

"Senior!"

"Harry! I'm so scared!"

"ah!"