Back at dinner time, McGoth was curiously asking how Harry and Ron had reconciled when Collin, a first-year student, walked over briskly.

"You won't think I've learned anything." Colin whispered, somewhat frightened, "When Professor Lockhart asked me to take a picture of him in the afternoon, Professor Flitwick angrily came over and accused him of not doing his duty as a professor, saying that he didn't notice that a Ravenclaw first-year student was missing in the morning class. ”

Colin's words stunned the few people who had just been happily exchanging. McGoth didn't expect that in the afternoon, when he was just thinking about experiencing the magical life, he heard such a news in the evening.

"Do you know who's missing?" Hermione looked at the Ravenclaw table and realized that it was similar to the Hufflepuff atmosphere it had been a few days earlier.

Colin shook his head, and just as McGoth was thinking about going there and asking, the professors and the principal walked into the cafeteria.

The news of a student missing in Ravenclaw hadn't spread yet, and most of the young wizards didn't know about it, so they were still talking happily. Until Dumbledore tapped the cup in front of him lightly with a spoon.

"Everyone, be quiet." The voices in the hall slowly faded away, and the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students looked expectantly at the long table above, while the other students waited for the headmaster to "conjure" the food.

Dumbledore looked apologetically at Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw before speaking,

"I am here today with great regret to inform you gentlemen and ladies that not long ago we identified a Ravenclaw first-year lady as missing."

The other wizards in the dining hall were shocked by the news, and if they remembered correctly, this was the second student to go missing at Hogwarts, and the shocked silence was followed by a bang.

Magos looked at the headmaster above, although he knew that he couldn't hide it, he still didn't expect Dumbledore to directly announce the news on this occasion. Not surprisingly, just after he said the news, McGoth saw panicked expressions on the faces of the students around him, and even heard some students say that the news of Kang's disappearance last time had already made some pure-blood wizarding families feel uneasy, and that they were likely to leave Hogwarts temporarily or forever after the news of this incident spread.

The food that popped up next didn't appeal to the students in the slightest. It is no exaggeration to say that everyone is in danger.

Just then, Hagrid suddenly stood up, his face full of panic.

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Hagrid.

"It's Aragog, I've put a sense spell on it, it's terrified, it thinks it's going to die, and it's coming towards school." Hagrid said quickly, "I need to get over and have a look." He walked briskly off the long table. He didn't even bother Harry to ask him what was wrong.

Hagrid's sudden move overwhelmed the already panicked students, and Dumbledore suddenly had a bad feeling when he looked at Hagrid's back, but the most important thing for now was to take care of the students.

He clapped his hands heavily, asked the students to bring some food when everyone looked over, and now followed their respective deans back to their dormitories, not allowing anyone to leave at will.

"What happened to Hagrid?" Harry was a little apprehensive when he thought of Hagrid's eagerness to leave.

"We should go over and take a look, he should need help."

"We may not be able to leave at this time." Ron pointed to Professor McGonagall, who had been staring at them.

Due to their previous 'crimes', Professor McGonagall was very protective of them.

"I can't believe it, Professor, she stared at us back to the break room." Hermione was a little embarrassed at the thought of Professor McGonagall's actions.

"Let's use the invisibility cloak to see." Harry said as he pulled out his cloak while the others weren't looking.

"Maybe we shouldn't leave now." Hermione hesitated.

"No, I must go over and have a look, if you don't go, I'll go alone." Harry's tone was firm.

"Well," said McGoss, looking at them, "the invisibility cloak is squeezed into three people at most, and one of us must not be able to go, and we may be caught in the attention of others if we disappear all at once, Hermione stays here, and if someone asks about us, you say we are together, and they won't break into the girls' dormitory." ”

"The girl asked you what to do."

"You just said we were talking about it in the dormitory."

Hermione thought that she might be a burden in battle, so she didn't say anything more.

"Then stay safe."

By the time Magos and the others had figured out of the dormitory, Hagrid had already reached his cabin, where a huge spider nearly half the size of the room was huddled in a ball.

"What's going on, Aragog." Hagrid asked, hugging the big spider worriedly.

"Monster, monster, it has eaten a lot of my children, and it wants to eat me." Aragog said tremblingly.

"What a monster, Aragog."

"Can't say, can't—" Aragog froze suddenly, no longer trembling, motionless, as if dead.

Hagrid also sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and quickly picked up the huge stone axe leaning next to the house, when some of the roosters in his backyard also began to croaw.

Hagrid was startled by these voices, and he quickly suspected that something was coming, but he couldn't believe how such creatures could appear around him.

As the minutes ticked by, just as Hagrid thought the basilisk was going to attack, the rooster's crowing slowly stopped. Aragog began to tremble again, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, and although he had great magic resistance, he was not really confident that he could stop the petrified gaze of the basilisk, let alone that it was more than that.

"There's something going on here." Dumbledore's voice popped up, and Hagrid almost threw the stone axe to his head.

"Headmaster, can you please not show up out of nowhere." Hagrid muttered.

Dumbledore smiled and looked in the direction the basilisk had left, the basilisk was so vigilant that he fled as soon as he noticed him, and if he hadn't been sure that he could catch the basilisk in the wild, he wouldn't have appeared in front of Hagrid.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, what trouble are you talking about?" Hagrid looked at Aragog, who was frightened and motionless, a little helpless.

"Your business." Dumbledore muttered.

"Me?" Hagrid looked puzzled.

"Remember, Hagrid, don't admit whatever they ask you." As he spoke, he glanced at Aragog, "Also, let it go quickly, or it won't be able to leave later." ”

"But there's a basilisk."

"Trust me, Hagrid." Hagrid, who was stared at by Dumbledore like this, turned his head a little uncomfortably.

"Of course I believe you, Headmaster Dumbledore. Aragog, you find a place to hide first, and I'll look for you later. "Aragok is like an amnesty, and his eight feet dance so fast that they disappear in an instant.

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