Passed! The criminals have already been taken away. "Who said that?" Dean Thomas said loudly.

"My dear young man, Hagrid would not have been taken away if the Minister of Magic had not found him 100% guilty." Lockhart said that tone, as if someone was explaining that one plus one equals two.

"Oh, not necessarily." Ron said, louder than Dean's.

"I'm confident I know a little more about Hagrid's arrest than you do, Mr. Weasley." Lockhart said in a smug tone.

Ron was about to say he didn't think so, but stopped before he could finish his sentence as Harry kicked him hard under the table.

"We weren't there, you forgot?" Harry whispered.

But Lockhart's disgusting joy, his confession of implying that he had long thought Hagrid was not a good man, and his words that he believed the whole thing was over, annoyed Harry, and he wanted to throw the book "Travels with Ghouls" at Lockhart's stupid face. But he had to write a scribbled note to Ron: "Let's do it tonight." ”

Ron read the note, swallowed hard, and turned his head to look at the empty seat Hermione had been sitting in. The sight seemed to strengthen his resolve, and he nodded.

These days, the Gryffindor common room is always packed, because after six o'clock in the evening, the Gryffindor students have nowhere else to go. And they always have a lot to talk about, and as a result, there are often people in the common room until after midnight.

After dinner, Harry took the Cloak of Invisibility out of the box and sat on it all night, waiting for the room to run out. Fred and George challenge Harry and Ron to play the same game, while Ginny watches. She sat in Hermione's usual seat, feeling down. Harry and Ron kept deliberately losing, wanting to end the game early, but even then, it was already midnight when Fred, George, and Ginny went to bed.

Harry and Ron waited for two rings of dormitory doors to close in the distance before grabbing the Cloak of Invisibility, draping it over their bodies, and crawling out of the portrait hole.

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

He didn't say any more, leaving Harry with a little hope.

They came to Hagrid's hut and looked sadly and sadly at the black windows. Harry pushed the door open, and Tooth was overjoyed when he saw them. Fearing that its low, deep barking would wake the -159 men in the castle, they quickly took milk gummy from a can on the mantelpiece and gave it food, sticking its teeth.

Harry placed the Cloak of Invisibility on Hagrid's desk. You don't need it in the dark woods.

"Come on, Yaya, let's go for a walk." Harry said, patting it on the back leg. Tooth happily followed them out of the hut, running toward the edge of the woods, and crossed his leg beside a large Sikmo fig tree.

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 will 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. ”

So, they went into the woods, and Fangya ran around them, sniffing the roots and leaves along the way. 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.

Harry paused, trying to see where the spider was moving, but beyond the glimmer of light was darkness that could not be seen. He had never been so deep in the middle of the woods before. He vividly recalled the last time he had entered the woods, Hagrid had warned him 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.

Something touched Harry's hand, and he jerked backwards and stepped on Ron's foot, which turned out to be just a toothy nose.

"What do you think?" Harry said to Ron. He had just been able to make out Ron's eyes, pupils reflecting the glimmer of his wand.

"We've come so far." Ron said.

So, they followed the shadow of the spider 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. Harry could feel his teeth breathing hot on his hands. 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.

-160 - At this moment, Tooth suddenly let out a loud bark that echoed through the woods, scaring both Harry and Ron out of their bodies.

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

"There's something moving there," Harry gasped, "listen... 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.

"Oh, no," Ron said, "oh, no, oh, no, oh—"

"Shut up," Harry said furiously, "and it will hear you. ”

"Hear me?" Ron said in an unnatural screech, "It's heard." Tooth tooth!"

They stood there, waiting in horror, the darkness seemed to oppress their eyeballs. Suddenly there was a rumbling sound, and then silence returned.

"What do you think it's doing?" Harry asked.

"Probably ready to pounce." Ron said.

They waited, trembling and not daring to move.

"Do you think it's gone?" Harry asked in a whisper.

"I don't know—"

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!"

Harry followed Ron and stumbled towards the light, tripping along the way. A moment later, they came to a clearing. Mr. Weasley's car was parked in the middle of a dense circle of trees, topped by dense interlaced foliage, empty and shiningly glowing from its headlights. As Ron walked towards it with his mouth wide open, it slowly moved towards him, like a large turquoise dog greeting its owner.

"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 scratched and covered in 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 never knew where it went!"

Harry narrowed his eyes and continued to search for the spider's shadow on the lighted ground, but they all hurried -161-to avoid the glare of the headlights and ran away. "We're gone." He said, "Come, let's go find the spider.." 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 didn't even have time to turn around. He heard a loud click, and suddenly he felt a long, furry thing grab him by the waist, and hang him face down in the air. He struggled, terrified, and then he heard a click, and he saw Ron's legs off the ground, and he saw his teeth whining and growling—and then it was dragged into the dark bushes.

Harry's head hung upside down, and he saw that the guy who had grabbed him was riding on six strangely long, thick-haired legs, and two more legs in front of him clamped tightly, and on top of them were a pair of large, shiny black stings. Behind him, he could hear another such animal, apparently holding Ron. They are moving towards the center of the woods. Harry heard the teeth whining and was desperately trying to break free from the third monster, but Harry couldn't scream even if he wanted to, and he seemed to leave his voice in the clearing, along with the car.

He didn't know how long he had been in the animal's claws; All he knew was that the darkness seemed to have subsided a little, and he saw that the ground covered with fallen leaves was now densely packed with spiders. He twisted his neck and found that they had come to the edge of a wide hollow, the hollow of trees cleared, and the stars illuminated the most terrible sight he had ever seen in his life.

Spider. Not like the little spiders that crawled through the fallen leaves below, but each one the size of a horse pulling a cart, with eight eyes and eight legs, black and hairy, like a behemoth. The giant spider carrying Harry descended the steep slope towards a misty, hemispherical web in the middle of the hollow, surrounded by its companions. When they saw what it was clamping onto, they all moved their claws excitedly, making a clicking sound.

The spider let go of its claws, and Harry fell to the ground. Ron and the Tooth Spear also fell hard beside him. Tooth no longer growled, but curled up silently. Ron looked and felt exactly like Harry. His mouth was wide and seemed to be screaming silently, and his eyes were bulging outward. Harry suddenly realized that the spider that had thrown him away was talking. It's not easy to hear, because it has to click and fiddle with its big claws with every word it says.

"Aragog!" It shouted, "Aragog!"

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.

"What's going on?" It said, click, click, two large claws moving rapidly.

"People." The spider who had just grabbed Harry said.

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

"It's a stranger." The spider who brought Ron with clicked.

-162 - "Kill them," Click-click-click, Aragog said irritably. "I'm sleeping.."" We were 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 to our hollows before." It said slowly. "Hagrid is in trouble," Harry said, breathing very hard, "that's why we're here." "Trouble?" The old spider said. Harry felt that he heard some concern in the clattering clatter. "But why did he send you?"

Harry wanted to stand up, but then decided to lie on his stomach; He didn't think his legs could support the weight of his body. He lay on the ground and spoke, speaking as calmly as he could. "At school, they think Hagrid recently let out a -- one --