At night, Augustus walked through the Slytherin common room, past several escalators floating in the air, to the entrance of the Great Hall, where Harry and Ron were watching around in a corner in their invisibility cloaks, under the influence of the Eye of Inquiry. "Are you ready?" A voice rang in Harry's ears, Harry looked left and right, Augustus's figure gradually appeared in the air, Harry also took off his invisibility cloak, and appeared in the clearing with Ron.

"It's pretty much everything, let's go now." Augustus motioned to Harry, and the group disappeared into thin air as they walked out of the school.

The journey through the castle was also difficult, and I had to avoid the teacher in every possible way. At last, they finally reached the foyer, slipped behind the locks of the two oak doors, squeezed through the cracks, trying not to squeak, and came to the moonlit field.

"How," said Ron suddenly as they strode through the swarthy meadow, "we may not be able to follow anything when we get to the woods." Those spiders probably didn't even get there. I know they seemed to be moving in that direction, but"

"Since Hagrid said follow the spider, let's find the spider in the literal sense of the word, and then follow them to see if the clue is hidden in the spider's nest." Augustus didn't have the slightest concern, and directly proposed.

Harry, Ron nodded, and the three of them continued to search for the spider's tracks.

Harry pulled out his wand and muttered, "Fluorescent flicker!" A thin beam of light came out of the wand's head, just enough for them to see if there were spiders on the road.

"Good idea," Ron said, "I want my wand to shine too, but you know, if you don't get it right, it'll explode."

Harry patted Ron on the shoulder and pointed to the grass. Two lone spiders were scurrying away from the light of their wands and into the shadows of the dark trees.

"Well," Ron sighed, as if he had to settle for the worst, "I'm ready." Let's go. ”

The three Augustos followed the spider closely and began to enter the Forbidden Forest.

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.

Augustus stopped, and now the spider was moving in a direction beyond the range illuminated by the glimmer of light, and there was darkness beyond his fingers. The last time they had gone deep into the Forbidden Forest was when they met Voldemort, and they had never gone deep into the middle of the woods before. Hagrid had warned them not to stray from the forest path. But Hagrid was a long way away, probably sitting in Azkaban's cell, and he had said he was going to follow the spider.

Harry sulked in his invisibility cloak and asked, "What should I do, are you still chasing?" If you chase it again, you will deviate from the path of the Forbidden Forest, and I don't know what will happen to the road in that direction. ”

Augustus pondered for a moment, then said to Harry and the others, "If you go deeper into the Forbidden Forest, you will indeed encounter unpredictable dangers, and I have decided to go deeper, whether you are still coming along, you must know that I may not be able to protect you two from the dangers." ”

"Now that we're here, we can't stop talking halfway, let's keep going." Ron didn't hesitate at all and said directly.

Augustus nodded, and they followed the spider's running shadow into the trees. They couldn't go fast now, and there were roots and stumps everywhere, blocking the way, barely visible in the near-pitch light. They were forced to stop on more than one occasion, and Harry crouched down, looking for spiders by 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 sloping downward, even though the trees were still as dense as before.

Augustus suddenly stopped, his figure emerging from the air, and raised his hand to signal Ron and Harry to stop. Harry emerged from his cloak of invisibility and followed Augustus' slightly solemn gaze to the distance, where there was an endless darkness where nothing could be found.

"What?" Ron exclaimed, glancing into the darkness as he grabbed Harry's elbow hard.

"There's something moving there," Harry gasped, "sounds like a big guy." ”

They listened carefully. Some distance to their right, the big thing was carving a way out of the bushes, breaking countless branches.

At this moment, to their right, a dazzling light suddenly lit up, dazzling in the darkness, and both of them raised their hands to block their eyes. Tooth roared and tried to escape, but was tripped by a thorn and screamed even louder.

"Harry!" Ron shouted, his voice choked with relief, "Harry, it's our car!"

''What?''" Come on!"

"So it's been here all along!" Ron said happily, walking around the car. "Look at it, the woods have made it wild" The wings of the car were scraped and covered with mud. Apparently it formed the habit of moving alone in the woods. Tooth didn't seem to be interested in it in the slightest; It followed Harry without a single step. Harry could feel it shivering. Harry's breathing slowed down again, and he withdrew his wand into his robes.

"We thought it was going to attack us!" Ron said, leaning against the car and patting it. "I don't know where it went!"

Augustus slapped his forehead helplessly, it was obviously not just a car that could make him so cautious, he raised his wand, and a blinding ball of light rose into the sky, illuminating most of the glade, so Harry and Ron finally saw something else hidden in the darkness.

Ron didn't say alive and didn't move. His eyes were fixed on Harry's back, ten feet above the ground. His face was pale, and fear was written vividly.

Harry turned and stared in horror at what he saw, seeing that the guy who had grabbed him was riding on six strangely long, thick-haired legs, and two more legs clamping tightly around him in front of him, and a pair of shiny black stings on them.

Before Augustus could raise his wand, there was a loud click, and Harry suddenly felt a long, furry object pick him up and hang him face down in the air. He struggled, terrified, when he heard a click again, and he saw Ron's legs off the ground.

Then the monster concocted the same method, ready to grab Augustus, to Harry and Ron's surprise, Augustus didn't make any moves, and directly let the giant spider grab him. The spider that grabbed the trio began to crawl deeper into the Forbidden Forest. The dark forbidden forest, the unknown in the depths, is like a hospitable host, welcoming the reckless visit of the three of them.