Chapter 281: Hagrid's Memories
"Maybe you should stop raising poultry in the meantime, Hagrid." At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, in Hagrid's hut, William said to Hagrid with some helplessness.
He didn't think of any good way, and the current diary must be the focus of Hagrid's surveillance here.
Because the crowing of the rooster is extremely deadly to the basilisk, even the old monster that has lived for a thousand years can only hold on to the rooster's crowing for a few seconds.
Because of the basilisk such a fatal weakness, the roosters that Hagrid kept would not live long anyway.
In order to prevent others from guessing about the basilisk, the careful journal controlled Ginny and killed all of Hagrid's fowl.
"It must have been some energetic imp who did it! Don't let me catch you! After listening to William's suggestion, Hagrid said angrily.
If you knew that it was Tom Riddle, the young Voldemort, who killed the poultry you were keeping in captivity, I don't know how you would feel.
If I'm not mistaken, Riddle killed one of the Hogwarts schoolgirls when he first opened the Chamber of Secrets, and that was Myrtle. In order to clear his name, Riddle blamed Hagrid, who was secretly raising an eight-eyed spider behind everyone's back.
It's also a very dangerous magical creature.
In this way, Hagrid was expelled from school, and thanks to Dumbledore, he was not cut off his wand and was offered an errand at Hogwarts to make ends meet.
Riddle, on the other hand, received a special contribution award from Hogwarts for this, as a way to gag him from revealing the truth.
The Headmaster of Hogwarts at the time and the British Ministry of Magic didn't want the matter to be a big deal.
Moreover, eight-eyed spiders never petrify people to death, which Dumbledore and the then Headmaster of Hogwarts absolutely knew.
Not to mention, how could Slytherin, who has always flaunted pure-blood, have an heir with the blood of a half-blood giant.
Hagrid became a pitiful victim, and he was even imprisoned in Azkaban until the kind Dumbledore rescued him.
"Alright, I'll turn this back on to the professors and Headmaster Dumbledore, they're sure to catch the killer." William softly comforted the honest stupid big man.
"I think it might have something to do with the person who opened the secret room, and I already have some clues. Hagrid, how much do you know about secret rooms? William's words were somewhat knowingly asked.
Familiar with the original book, he naturally knew everything about it, but William needed a point to reason, and naturally led the topic to the group of valuable spiders in the Forbidden Forest.
He had been playing the idea of those things for a long time.
"Secret room?" Hearing William's question, Hagrid subconsciously took a few steps back, his brow twisted into a ball.
"I don't know much, why are you asking this?"
Hagrid's arms were folded around his chest, making him look resistant to the question.
"I asked Myrtle, she told me something about the Chamber of Secrets, you must have been at Hogwarts at that time, what happened?"
Hagrid slammed down on his wooden bed, his head bowed, and buried Lien deep in his wide palms.
"At that time, everyone said that I opened the secret room and released the monster inside, and they all said that I killed Myrtle." Hagrid spoke intermittently.
"But it's impossible, how can you be the one who opens the secret room?"
"Yes, that's what I explained to the professors and the Aurors at the Ministry of Magic, but no one believed me except Professor Dumbledore. He was not yet the Headmaster of Hogwarts at the time, but was the professor of Transfiguration. ”
"William, can you hand me my handkerchief? It was inside my fur coat, counting down the third pocket on the left. Hagrid looked up and said to William with some sobs.
In just a few moments, his eye circles had turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
I know all of that, please, can you say something I don't know?
Looking at Hagrid, who was not at all good, William felt that he was still hinting at him that it was better, and he turned around, walked to the hanger on the other side of the room, and reached out to grope for Hagrid's moleskin coat.
"But how did they connect you to the Chamber of Secrets? I mean, it doesn't make any sense, how could a Slytherin descendant be assigned to Gryffindor by the Sorting Hat? William pulled out a dirty handkerchief from Hagrid's coat and asked with some strange expression as he threw it at Hagrid.
Hearing this, Hagrid's emotions suddenly became excited.
He looked up, and his big red eyes looked fierce in the dim light.
"There's a boy, Tom Riddle, who reported me to the headmaster at the time, and he told the professors that I secretly kept very dangerous pets, and come on, Alagog is not dangerous at all, okay?" Due to his anger, Hagrid did not control his volume, he shouted excitedly, and William was also a little dizzy by Hagrid's loud voice.
Please, isn't the eight-eyed spider dangerous?
It's just that Alagog isn't dangerous for you, right?
Secretly muttering in his heart, William's face did not change at all.
"Aragog? Hagrid, what kind of pet were you having at the time, and you would have the professors blame you for opening the secret room. ”
"I, I." Hagrid was momentarily speechless.
"I just got an eight-eyed spider." He lowered his head and spoke quietly.
Noticing William's eyes that widened in horror, Hagrid hurriedly explained again.
"Don't get me wrong, William, Aragog is not dangerous at all! It's an eight-eyed spider, but I got it when it was still an egg, and a traveler gave it to me, and it was the greatest gift I've ever received.
I hatched it out and hid it in a storage room in the castle dungeon, raising it only from the scraps of food collected on the dining table, it was not like other eight-eyed spiders. With that, Hagrid looked at William expectantly, hoping that the latter would understand a hint of what he was thinking.
Hagrid may be disappointed, though, because William doesn't agree with Hagrid's idea.
In fact, any normal wizard would scoff at Hagrid's childish ideas.
The eight-eyed spider is evil by nature, and this will not be improved by the slightest training he has acquired, so let's take a look at the plot later.
Without the help of the protagonist's aura, Harry might have lost his life to this stupid adventure in his second year.