Near the Forbidden Forest, Alan stood under a tree after saying goodbye to his eldest brother after leaving the Quidditch pitch in the riot area, leaning against the trunk of the tree, looking at the clear blue sky, he was waiting for Penelope to come out to deliver the spider corpse to Hagrid - but to his surprise, he saw two witches walking in the distance, Penelope walking behind angrily, and the light blonde witch in front of her jumped up.

Penelope stood in front of Alan with her arms folded, her eyebrows raised but she grinned downwards to suppress her annoyance: "Professor McGonagall is crazy and is chasing her, and the crazy girl sees me asking for help... I had to bring her over. ”

"Professor McGonagall seemed angry at my question, so I told her that maybe I should ask the girls a different question, who would she save first when their father and lover fell into the river... As soon as she finished speaking, she became even more anxious and began to pick me up... She doesn't want me to touch the microphone anymore. ”

"It's a good thing Dad didn't come... Emily, what about them?"

"Sister, their college has its own celebration, Mrs. Harris, and they will go back on their own... Professor Snape didn't expect to get another Quidditch Cup this year, and seemed to agree with them to use the common room at will. ”

The three of them walked down the path towards Hagrid's hunting ground guard's cabin, and in front of a field of carrots and artichokes scattered with leaves, Penelope leaned down to see which almost heart-shaped footprints were walking on the dirt.

"How did that vegetable patch get trampled into a mess, and what animals broke into?"

"Goat's footprints. Penelope had finished judging the footprints and stood up.

"I didn't even know there were goats in the Forbidden Forest. Alan looked at the huge carrot pieces scattered on the ground, "In addition to being good at animals, Hagrid is actually quite talented in growing vegetables, maybe he did well in the herb class that year?"

After walking a few more steps to Hagrid's cabin at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the three of them came to the door, in front of which there was a stone bow and a pair of rubber galoshes, and in front of the door was a high shelf with a sheepskin hanging upside down, and under the shelf lay a goat's head, and on the ground there were scattered wool and dried blood, and it seemed that the culprit had paid for his crimes.

Penelope took two steps forward and bypassed them and knocked on the door.

Tooth's cry rang out immediately, "Who?" Hagrid's thick voice rang out, "Is that Harry?"

The wooden door creaked open.

"Miss Crivat?!" Hagrid, whose hands were covered in blood, looked at Penelope as he knocked on the door, recognizing the former Ravenclaw student and now the famous Auror of the Ministry of Magic.

Hagrid's heart lifted suddenly, and then he glanced at his bloodied hands and hurriedly carried them on his back, as if sensing that it was easier to misunderstand that the dry explanation was that it was a sheep, and then looked at the Auror with some caution like a bean.

It was only then that Alan and Luna stepped out from behind Penelope, and they greeted Hagrid, who relaxed his tense body.

"Hagrid, there's something I want to tell you, but let's not talk at the door, right?" Allen said in a playful tone, "You didn't kill a sheep, did you?"

"Ah, of course not—— come in—" Hagrid, who was a little dazed, heard Alan's words, only then did he realize that he had blocked the guests out of the door, and hurriedly let Alan and them in.

The three of them crossed the threshold, and in one corner of the hut lay an oversized bed covered with a quilt made of rags, and on the other side, a firefire crackled merrily, with an equally large wooden table and chairs in front of it, and a large pile of cured hams and dead birds hanging from the ceiling above the fire—Hogwarts seemed to have not been used by young wizards except for himself in modern times.

On the floor was a large wooden basin containing the slaughtered mutton, and on a large wooden table was a wooden board on which the skeleton of a goat had not yet been disassembled.

Hagrid found a large rag and wiped the table vigorously, then placed a large teapot on the table, made them tea, and brought them a stoat sandwich.

"Did you just come back from Quidditch?" I heard the cheers...... Hagrid moved the large plank off the table, "this goat is keeping me from watching, it's breaking into the garden and I've caught it, I've got to deal with it... Hey Tooth go away, it's not for you to eat... Uh, who's going to win?"

"I'm sorry Hagrid, I've just eaten a lot on the court and I'm not hungry yet," Alan said after politely declining Hagrid's sandwich, "Emily caught the Golden Snitch and Slytherin won." ”

"Did you come to me this time and want to teach with some magical creatures?" Hagrid sat down in his chair and spread out his huge palms, "Many of the students have already returned the Frog Armyworm to me, but many more have come to apologize to me - they said they killed the Armyworm they were assigned... I didn't even know that the students cared so much about it..."

Luna's light silver eyes swept through the window, and suddenly her expression was stunned, just outside the window, there was a long black hair in the distance, Penelope noticed Luna's expression, quickly stood up and walked to the window, but found nothing.

"What do you two see?"

"I guess some daring little wizard has broken into the Forbidden Forest again. ”

"Since Sirius's time, more and more people like to break into the Forbidden Forest..."

"It's said it's a forbidden forest, but no one seems to have ever really treated it as a forbidden area... Forget Hagrid, let's get down to business... About Aragog...... "As soon as Alan mentioned Aragog, he was surprised to find that the big man in front of him looked frightened.

Hagrid's face was pale and trembling, and he wiped his forehead with his sleeve: "You can take me away, don't make trouble for Dumbledore, he doesn't know about it." ”

The appearance of the half-blood giant made Alan and the female Auror puzzled for a while, and Alan hurriedly stared at the half-blood giant.

Hagrid's big fan-like hands rubbed together, and said in a dull voice, "You must have known that I broke the law, and those eight-eyed giant spiders that appeared during the Great War of the Department of Mystic Affairs of the Ministry of Magic were the ones who were brought back by the Ministry of Magic." ”

"The Eight-Eyed Spider Eggs are clearly classified as a Class A non-tradable commodity by the Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control, which does mean that the import or sale of Eight-Eyed Eggs will be severely punished, not to mention raising adult animals. Penelope recited the Ministry of Magic's rules of wanting to visit, and then sarcastically said, "But if I want to arrest you, it will be Josephine..."

Tears fell into his unkempt beard, and Hagrid interrupted Penelope's sarcasm with a twitch and began to say to himself, "I broke the law! I shouldn't have raised Aragog secretly!

Alan already knew what the other party was worried about, and tried to persuade him helplessly: "Hagrid... We're not..."

"I found some bones in their lair....but it wasn't Aragog's doing, he didn't kill anyone!—he promised me that he wouldn't hurt humans...," Hagrid said emphatically, and then began to wail, "but its offspring are not bound by this promise... The bones and remnants suggest they seem to be Muggles..."

Hearing Hagrid's words of not admitting himself and turning himself in, Alan couldn't help but laugh, and he pressed his hand on Penelope, comforting the female Auror who bounced up and wanted to do it.

"Actually, from the literal theory of wizard law, after you release it, it doesn't kill itself, you are not responsible..."Seeing that Hagrid was so guilty, Alan didn't plan to really arrest Hagrid, he had to find a reason to appease Hagrid with some unorthodox views, "It's the same as the principle of natural selection in nature, this is the law of nature... This is a deep mountain forest for Muggles, and the habits of the eight-eyed spiders do not hunt outside their territory... Most of the Muggles who come here are those who love adventure and survival in the wild... They've certainly learned about the possibility of encountering a beast..."

"They didn't tell me about this..."Penelope, realizing that Eren didn't want to dig deeper, took his anger out on the eight-eyed spiders she was in charge of, intending to go back and examine it properly.

"But... Didn't you come to get me?" Hagrid opened his palm a little, revealing his face buried inside, and began to cry again, "I killed someone! Merlin, what have I done!"

“... So you have to be cautious about choosing pets in the future, some things can't hurt you or don't hurt you, but for young wizards and Muggles... Well, that's why the rest of the Umbrella has been trying to teach you these ideas, you've been a lot better lately than you've been in years..."Alan patted Hagrid's thick arm and soothed, "Don't worry Hagrid, we're not here to arrest you... We're here to tell you that Alagog is dead... Uh, I mean, it's the end of life... We brought his body back to you, and I think you'd be happy to bury it, after all... As an eight-eyed spider, Penelope and I are certain that it has defied its instincts and fulfilled its promise to you, even though it is a little indulgent to its own offspring..."

Hagrid's sobbing, which had begun to weaken and became intermittent, stopped abruptly, and the obituary and Aragog's promise caused the half-blood giant to let out an almost beastly wail, and Aragog's name was muttered in his mouth.

"I'm hungry. Luna's lilting voice rang out abruptly, quieting the noisy scene.

Everyone followed her gaze and saw that it was the pot of lamb that Hagrid had disassembled.

"The magazine in Qiu Zhang's hometown that I read had a recipe for making lamb stew. ”

Penelope's gaze swirled over Luna, she rolled her eyes unhappily, and just as she wanted to criticize Luna's behavior of not looking at the atmosphere of the conversation, she heard Alan say in a somewhat embarrassed tone with some jealousy: "Hagrid, I need to get some lamb from you." ”

Author's note: Today's winter solstice, I wanted to arrange a plot to eat mutton in this chapter many days ago, but it turned out that I found that I had counted one more chapter, and I was reluctant to delete the whole chapter that I had written, so that the plot that was supposed to eat mutton became the one that started to make mutton... But it's a good thing to mention in this chapter.