A/N One of my favorite chapters to write! I hope you like it. Please review and tell me what you think.
"Why are you so afraid of spiders?" I asked Ron out of curiosity. He looked disturbed as he answered.
"When I was a little kid… Well, Fred and George took my teddy bear and turned it… turned it into a giant spider." He told me. I laughed.
"It's not funny!"
"I'm sorry, but it kind of is!" I returned.
"Shush!" Harry told us from a few feet ahead. We got to the mouth of a cavern.
"I have a bad feeling about this…" Ron moaned.
"Don't panic… Picture them as teddy bears." I suggested.
"That doesn't help." He whispered back. A giant (and I do mean giant, as in saddle that baby up and call him a mutated horse!) spider came out of the cavern.
"We're friends of Hagrid's. You're Aragog, aren't you" Harry informed him.
"Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before." The spider answered.
"He's in trouble. Up at the school, there have been attacks. They think its Hagrid. They think he's opened the Chamber of Secrets like before." Harry explained. Ron tugged hard on my sleeve. I took my arm away and ignored him.
"That's a lie! Hagrid has never opened the Chamber of Secrets!"
"But if Hagrid never… That means you're not the monster." Harry said slowly.
"The monster was born in the castle. I came from a distant land, in the pocket of a traveler." He explained.
"Harry, Elizabeth…" Ron moaned.
"Shush!" I told him.
"But if you're not the monster, what did kill that girl fifty years ago?" Harry asked Aragog.
"We do not speak of it! It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others!" Aragog told Harry.
"But have you seen it?"
"I never saw any part of the castle but the cupboard in which Hagrid kept me. The girl was discovered in a bathroom. When I was accused, Hagrid brought me here."
"Harry! Elizabeth!" Ron cried, grabbing at us.
"What?!" Harry snapped, annoyed. Ron pointed up. We looked up. Spiders were coming down on strings of webs, right towards us.
"Well, thank you. We'll just go!" I said. We started backing away.
"Go? I think not. My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid, on my command. But I cannot deny them fresh meat when it wanders so willingly into our midst. Goodbye, friends of Hagrid." He turned and disappeared into the shadows of the cavern again.
"Can we panic now?" Ron asked.
"Yes!" I agreed. The spiders were surrounding us. Fang started barking. Harry swung at the nearest spider with the lantern.
"Nice knowing you!" Ron said as we drew our wands. Suddenly a car horn rang out.
"Was that-?" I started. The flying Weasley car drove up and the spiders skittered out of its path. The doors flew open.
"Get in!" Harry ordered. Fang and Ron climbed in the passenger side while Harry and I ran to get into the driver's side. Fang was in the backseat while Ron, Harry and I squeezed into the front row. A spider appeared at Ron's window. I drove while Harry uttered a spell and sent the spider flying off the window. We rolled up the windows. I glanced in the rear-view mirror. An army of spiders was chasing after us. We burst out of the forest and in front of Hagrid's hut. The doors flew open again. We climbed out. Fang high tailed it inside the hut again as the car drove itself back into the Forbidden Forest.
"'Follow the spiders'! 'Follow the spiders'! If he ever gets out of Azkaban, I'll kill Hagrid! I mean, what was the point of sending us out there?! What have we found out?" Ron asked. Harry looked at the two of us.
"We know one thing… Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets. He was innocent."