Chapter 16: Aragog (Dedicated to Sesshy'sfavhuman also for helping me back on my feet)

We walk out into the dark...now I'll probably die here.

"Come on." Okay...It's suicide.

"What?" Are you deaf?

"You heard what Hagrid said. 'Follow the spiders.'"

"They're heading to the Dark Forest. Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?" Ron...Sometimes I wish you were a witch

20 minutes later

Good thing Fangs not afraid or spiders. I wish I could say the same thing for Ron.

"Harry, I don't like this." No kidding "Harry, I don't like this at all." Shut up Ron!

"Shush!"

We have to go in there?

"Can we go back now?" I wish I could say yes.

"Come on." Gotta be the man.

It's awfully dark in here.

"Who is it?" Great...There has to be a creepy voice.

"Don't Panic." Right keep telling yourself that harry.

"Hagrid? Is that you?" Darn creepy voice.

"We're friends of Hagrid's" Though maybe not once we get out of here.

That's a big spider...uh-oh. I think Ron may have just wet himself.

"And you? You're Aragog, aren't you?"

"Yes. Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before." I wish he still didn't.

"He's in trouble. Up at the school, there have been attacks. They think it's Hagrid. They think he opened the Chamber of Secrets. Like before."

"That's a lie. Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets." Must remember not to make the big spider angry.

"Then you're not the monster?"

"No. The monster was born in the castle. I came to Hagrid from a distant land in the pocket of a traveler." Then what's the monster I wonder?

"Harry." Oh Ron.

"Shush." Now to Aragog. "But if you're not the monster, then what did kill that girl 50 years ago?"

"We do not speak of it. It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others." That don't tell me much...

"But have you seen it?"

"I never saw any part of the castle but the box in which Hagrid kept me. The girl was discovered in a bathroom. When I was accused, Hagrid brought me here."

"Harry!" Enough whimpering!

"What?" I look up and I see...Lots of hungry spiders...I'm suprised Ron hasn't had a heart attack by now.

"Well, thank you. We'll just go." That's right, Ron. nod your head like a big dumb dog.

"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, friend of Hagrid." Goodbye...

"Can we panic now?" Yes Ron.

I try to bat them away with the lamp but Me, Ron, and Fang are too quickly over taken by the spiders. In short...They got us.