The next day came something even more horrific than those attacks, Headmaster Dumbledore left, and fear spread rapidly like never before, so that the sun that warmed the castle's exterior walls seemed to be unable to shine through the mullioned windows. Every face in the school seemed terrified, and every loud laugh that rang out in the hallways seemed harsh, eerie, and quickly suppressed.

"So, your father convened a board of directors to suspend Dumbledore. ”

"We're probably going to have a decent headmaster now, someone who doesn't want the Chamber of Secrets to close. McGonagall won't be around long, she's only filling the vacancy - I hope Professor Snape will apply for the position of chancellor, and I'll let my father vote for him. Draco triumphantly commented on Dumbledore's departure in the common room, which won the approval of most of the Slytherin students.

"What do you think, Phoenix. ”

"The position of principal is not a good job now. Phoenix said this, but in his heart, he scolded Lucius. Dumbledore was suspended - he had come to England to rely on his asylum, and now he was no longer in school. It's not too hard for the Peverells to sneak up on a school - even if it's Hogwarts.

The attack could not be allowed to happen any longer, and he had to get the school back to normal as soon as possible, and at the same time get Dumbledore back in duty immediately. He took out his quill and immediately wrote a text message to his father, and Eden quickly left with the letter.

"Let's go, there's a herb class in the afternoon. Phoenix stopped the discussion, and everyone rushed through the stone wall.

There was a lively and noisy dance party in the third greenhouse, much to the delight of Professor Sprout.

"When they want to move to someone else's pot, we know they're fully ripe. "Then we can bring back to life all the poor people in the hospital room." ”

Behind him, Harry and Ron muttered something to the aid of the environment.

"We maybe—I mean, he's also tracking down the killer, are we? We heard his analysis in the Slytherin common room, and he didn't tell Snape either—we sneaked in. Harry whispered to Ron.

"So you want to ask him for help? How can you be sure that he doesn't want to help him when he finds it. Ron looked at Phoenix's back unkindly.

"He's not a bastard like Malfoy. If we work together, we might be able to stop more people from getting hurt - he has a good relationship with Hermione, doesn't he - he's so good and can help us. Harry thought to himself that Hermione, Creevey, Nick, and the rest of the victims were lying in hospital beds, and that they should put aside their suspicions for a while. Thinking of this, he remembered the scene of losing to Malfoy that night, and his heart felt awkward. But instead of spending months with the Dursleys, he said firmly: "At dinner, we'll send him a letter, and we'll do it tonight whether he comes or not." ”

Ron nodded slowly.

At the end of his evening meal in the Great Hall, Harry secretly slipped a note to Phoenix. "The Forbidden Forest has a clue to that monster, I hope you can go with me and Ron in the evening, we will be waiting for you at the door of the hall, I have an invisibility cloak. ”

Interesting, I already know what's in the chamber. He now prefers to find the entrance to the secret room, which is not and cannot be recorded in the book. But he wrote the meeting time on the back of the parchment and sent it from under the table to Harry with a hover spell. Harry: They were the only people he knew were investigating the Chamber of Secrets.

After midnight, Phoenix leaves the common room. Coming to the empty hall door, only the firelight was shaking slightly, and Phoenix used a detection spell, which would normally be detected by the illusion charm and the invisibility cloak. But this feedback turned out to be really no magic response.

"Phoenix, here. The space on Phoenix's right-hand side seemed to be cut open by something, and Harry and Ron pulled the Cloak of Invisibility open a gap.

"Wow, the Cloak of Invisibility is awesome. Phoenix was extremely surprised in his heart, this cloak of invisibility could not be detected by detection magic, could it be the cloak of invisibility in the Three Hallows?

"It's nothing, it turned out to be my father's. Harry whispered as he explained where the cloak came from. "Hagrid was thought to be the one who opened the chamber, but he wasn't. ”

"yes, I agree with that. ”

"Before he was taken away by the Ministry of Magic, he hinted that we would have some clues in the Forbidden Forest. Harry walked by telling Phoenix what had happened.

"Well, I hope it works. ”

They went to Hagrid's hut and left the Cloak of Invisibility there, Harry had proposed to bring Fang, but Phoenix vetoed it.

They entered the woods, and by the light of Harry's wand, they followed the spiders that kept crawling along the path. After walking for about twenty minutes, no one spoke, but listened carefully to see if there was anything other than the breaking of branches and the rustling of leaves. Then, the trees grew thicker and thicker, and the stars overhead were no longer visible. Harry's wand shimmered alone in the endless darkness when they noticed that the spider guides had strayed from the path.

The darkness seemed to have subsided a little, and they came to the edge of a wide hollow, the hollow of trees had been cleared, and the ground covered with fallen leaves was now densely packed with spiders, each the size of a horse pulling a cart, with eight eyes and eight legs, black and hairy, like a behemoth.

The moment they entered the hollow, the spiders were all awakened and gathered around. Ron looked like he was going to faint at any moment.

From the middle of the misty, hemispherical webs, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged very slowly. Its body and legs were black and gray, and each eye on its ugly head with large claws was covered with a layer of white. It's a blind man.

"Is it Hagrid?" Aragog said, moving closer, eight milky eyes staring blankly.

"We are friends with Hagrid. Harry shouted. His heart seemed to leave his chest and jump out of his throat.

Click, click, click, the hollows are full of spiders' claws moving. Aragog hesitated.

"Hagrid never sent anyone to our hollows before. It said slowly.

"Hagrid is in trouble," Harry said, breathing very hard, "that's why we're here." ”

"Trouble?" said the old spider. Phoenix felt that he heard some concern in the loud clattering clatter. "But why did he send you?"

Ron finally collapsed to the ground, but thankfully he didn't pass out.

"At school, they think Hagrid has been unleashing something to harm the students lately. They took him to Azkaban. ”

Clatter, clatter, Aragog danced his claws angrily, and the sound was echoed by the swarm of spiders in the hollow;

"But that was many years ago," Aragog said angrily, "many, many years ago." I remember it well. It was because of this that they let him out of school at that time. They believed I was the monster who lived in what they called a secret room. They thought Hagrid had opened the chamber and released me. ”

"So you—you didn't come out of the chamber?" Harry asked, a cold sweat breaking out on his head. I've known for a long time, but the eight-eyed spider has a short lifespan, according to the book, they usually live for 200 years, and it seems that the spider named Aragog is terminally ill.

"Me!" Aragog said, claw clicking angrily, "I wasn't born in a castle. I come from a faraway country. Before I hatched from the egg, a traveler gave me to Hagrid. Hagrid was just a child, but he took care of me, hid me in a cupboard in the castle, and fed me the crumbs that I had taken away from the table. Hagrid is a good friend of mine, he's a good guy. When people found me and asked me to take responsibility for the death of a girl, he was the one who protected me. I've lived in the woods ever since, and Hagrid often visits me. He even got me a wife, Mosag. You can see how prosperous our family is, and it's all thanks to Hagrid. ”

Harry mustered up what little courage he had left. "So you've never- never attacked anyone?"

"No," said the old spider resentfully, "I have this instinct, but out of respect for Hagrid, I have 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 cupboards I grew up in. We spiders love darkness and silence—"

"But then—do you know what killed the girl?"

Suddenly, there was a clattering sound, and countless long legs staggered and moved, and huge black shadows dangled around him.

"The guy who lives in the castle," said Aragog, "is an ancient creature that we spiders fear the most." I remember vividly that when I felt the beast moving around the school, I begged Hagrid to let me go. ”

"What is it?" Harry asked urgently. The clatter was louder, the plugged was getting denser, and the spiders seemed to be congregating.

"We don't say it!" "We don't name it!" Aragog said with a fierce emotion, "I didn't even tell Hagrid the name of that terrible creature, though he asked me many times." ”

Harry didn't want to be pressed on the subject, especially with the spiders gathering from all directions. Aragog didn't seem to want to speak. It slowly retreated into his hemispherical web, but his spider companions were still slowly, inch by inch, moving towards Harry and Ron.

"Then we're leaving. Harry shouted desperately to Aragog as he heard the leaves rustle behind him.

"Let's go?" said Aragog slowly, "I don't think to—"