Chapter 1382: The King of the Dying Spiders (Happy National Day)
To be honest, Hagrid cries a bit a lot, but it's mostly because of emotional matters.
For example, he is touched by everyone's trust, and then he mentions his family and parents' past, or......
Unexpectedly, Evan, Harry, Hermione, and Ron didn't take his class, which would make him so sad.
Or maybe it's because of something else, just in time to be together!
Hermione cautiously put her arm around Hagrid's trembling shoulders and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Yes, it's it......" Hagrid sobbed, tears streaming down his little dark eyes, and he wiped his face with his apron, "yes, it's Aragog, I think it's dying, it's not in good shape since the last time its nest collapsed and Evan rescued it, and this summer I've been sick for another summer, and I wasn't there to take care of him, and I didn't find out it wasn't until a while ago that I found it dying." I don't know if it ...... What should I do? We've been together for so long......"
Hermione patted Hagrid on the shoulder, completely unsure of what to say.
Harry understood how she felt, he knew that Hagrid had given a teddy bear to a vicious little fire dragon, and had seen Hagrid hum softly to the big scorpions with suckers and stingers, and try to reason with his half-brother, the brutal giant, but of all the behemoths Hagrid had ever loved, this one was the hardest to understand: Aragog, a giant talking spider that lived in the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
Of them, Evan was more familiar with Aragog, but he didn't know what to say.
Essentially, Aragog's weakness has something to do with him.
Three years ago, it was he who destroyed the ruins beneath the lair and the eyeball monsters inside, and lost the source of dark power, Aragog was just an ordinary eight-eyed giant spider, and it was already incredible that he could hold on for so long!
Then again, even without Aven, Aragog would have died at about this time. As the power of the seal left behind by Slytherin weakened, the power of the eyeball monster became stronger and stronger, and it no longer made sense to continue to divide the power to enslave Aragog and the Eight-Eyed Spider, which was of less and less help to it.
It should abandon the Eight-Eyed Spider and choose a new Servant to serve it, helping it with even greater enslavement, such as the Wizard......
"Don't do that, Hagrid, can weβcan we do something?" asked Hermione sadly.
"I'm afraid I can't help it, Hermione!" Hagrid said, sobbing and desperately holding back the well-watering tears, "I begged Dumbledore to see it, but it's useless, poor Aragog, its lair has collapsed, the tribe is finished, the offspring are almost dead, and now it ...... itself"
He wiped his tears vigorously and blew his nose vigorously on his apron.
"Thank you for saying that, Hermione, it's so important to me!" he said, looking up at the few of them, "Dumbledore said it might not survive this winter, and if you want, you can go check it out." Especially you, Aven, you saved its life before, and it always thanked you, and every time I visited it, old Aragog would ask me for news of you. β
The four of them looked at each other, and the atmosphere became a little dull again, and everyone knew what was going on.
Instead of thanking Aven, the old spider hated him. Instead of telling Hagrid what had happened at the lair, they said that there had been a cave-in, and Aven was there, so they rescued him......
Aragog must have hated Evan to death, because it didn't have the power of that eyeball monster in its head to be evil, and the concept of turning it and its offspring into terrible creatures would not feel anything bad about it, but would rejoice in the power.
And Aven, who ruined all this and killed a large number of Aragog's descendants, is his worst enemy!
If conditions allow, Aragog will definitely bite him to death before leaving this world.
Evan didn't want to look at the spider, but Hagrid was looking at it expectantly, and it was hard to say that refusal.
Aragog doesn't have the energy to hurt them right now, so to see if he's helping Hagrid.
"If time permits, we'll go!" said Aven.
"Oh, thank you, Aven, I don't know how to thank you, you've helped me so much!" Hagrid said.
After that, the atmosphere is much more relaxed!
Because Hagrid thought they were going to visit Aragog, they immediately forgave him for not choosing his class, and returned to normalcy.
"Hey, I knew you would find it hard to cram me into your schedule!" he said gruffly, pouring them some more tea, "Even if you use a time turner, it's hard!"
"We don't need it. Hermione said, "There's no way to apply again, after the summer incident, the ministry's inventory of time turners was smashed, and the newspapers said it." β
Because of history, the British Ministry of Magic keeps all the time turners in the world.
Theoretically, after the Ministry of Magic's time turners are all smashed, there should be no more time turners in the wizarding world!
But this is certainly not absolute, and the time turner in Aven's hand is not yet complete.
Other parts must be found in order to make it stronger.
And what happened fifteen years later, when Voldemort's daughter wanted to go back in time and change history.
All of these phenomena suggest that there are other time converters scattered around the world waiting to be discovered.
"That's why you can't choose my course!" Hagrid said with a sudden realization, "Other courses are much more useful than protecting magical creatures, if you like, you can always come and visit me and the animals, there is no need to sign up, I should have thought of it a long time ago." I'm sorry I just ...... You know, I'm just worried about Aragog, but I do have some doubts that Professor Grapeland has taught you......"
They immediately denounced Professor Graplan, who had taught Hagrid several times, and insisted that she was a particularly bad teacher, especially after knowing that they had not reported her to the improvement class, Hagrid became even happier!
He also asks them about the reason why Ron didn't show up, as well as the Quidditch Tryouts that just ended.
As for Elaine's request for a chance to visit Glopp, Hagrid was so excited that he couldn't even speak.
As a result, when dusk fell and Hagrid stood outside the house waving goodbye to them, he seemed much more emotional.
He repeatedly invited them to come back next weekend, either to visit Glopp or Aragog.