Chapter Four; Aragog

Snape looked over at Lily who sat a crossed the table with a full sized glass of butterbeer still sitting in front of her. "Are you alright?" he asked her.

"No. I'm worried about Harry." She told him.

"Don't get me wrong, I am too." He began. "But I'm more worried about you." He said.

"But what if something happens to him? I shouldn't have agreed to leave Harry all by himself." She told him.

"But he's not by himself, he's with Molly and the,.. and the Weasley boys. Oh boy." He said with a sudden realization. "What have I done?" he questioned himself when suddenly McGonagall burst into through the pub doors.

"Lily, Severus," she began frantically while breathing heavily as the two of them looked up at her.

"What is it Minerva?" Lily asked her.

"Molly just alerted me that the boys are gone! She went to put her daughter down for a nap, and after she left her husband in charge of her while she slept, she came back and found that they vanished!" she cried.

"Oh no! What if they went into the Black Woods!?" Lily exclaimed.

"Then they'd be very foolish to." Snape said.

"What are we going to do Severus?" Lily asked him.

"Nothing." He responded.

"But Severus, Harry's our son!" Lily protested.

"And he should have known better not to go in there when I specifically told him not to." Snape told her.

"I know that, but that's no reason to forget about him and abandon him!" she cried but Snape shook his head at her.

"I never said that I was going to do that. I love Harry with all my heart. I just want to teach him a lesson that's all." He said before he stood up and left the pub.

"Oh Minerva he couldn't have possibly meant that could he? He's going to do something isn't he?" she questioned her.

"I'm not quite sure, but I've got to say that I never really trusted that man. Although I think he was telling the truth about loving Harry. No, my guess is that Severus has got something really crooked up his sleeve."

….

As Harry followed Ron and the other two Weasley boys further and further into the woods, he was starting to second guess himself. "Maybe we should turn back." He said to Ron as he came to a sudden stop and started to look around. He didn't have a clue where he was and it was scaring him. Ron stopped beside him and looked around as well.

"Alright, but where exactly is back?" he questioned while he turned to look behind him. "I don't remember it looking like that." He said.

"That's because it didn't." Fred began. "It's changed."

"I should have listened to my father." Harry began as a tear rolled down his cheek. "He warned me not go into the Black Woods but I didn't listen to him. And now we'll never get out of here!" he sobbed.

"Don't worry Harry." George told him while placing a comforting hand upon his shoulder and resting it there.

"Yeah, we'll figure something out." Fred told him when suddenly they heard something scurrying a crossed the forest floor.

"What was that?" Ron asked worriedly with a gulp. However before anyone else had time to think up an answer, they looked up and finally found themselves face to face with a great big black hairy spider. It hissed at them and stuck out its legs in a threatening manner.

"Run!" Fred cried.

"No problem there." Harry said while he slowly started to back away from it and then ran after Ron and the Weasley twins while it began to chase them. Before Harry knew it he found himself being whisked away on top of its back.

"Harry!" Ron yelled.

"Help me!" Harry cried as it dragged him away further and further into the woods.

"It's taking him into the forbidden forest, maybe that's the way out." George realized as he pointed at it.

"That's what Bill and Charlie must have meant about there being no way out." Fred said.

"Yeah, you'll either be lost forever or get eaten by a werewolf." George said as Ron gulped.

"What are we going to do then?" he asked them anxiously.

"We don't have any choice. It's either here or there, so we might as well save Harry." Fred said before all three of them started running away.

….

Harry lost track of how long he had been on the spider's back. He continued to scream on the top of his lungs hoping that someone would hear him. He knew one thing that was for sure, he would never ever disobey his father again, because Harry found out the hard way that he was only trying to protect to him.

Finally, at long last the spider reared up and threw Harry off his back. Harry was flung into a tree and knocked unconscious. His eyes shut tightly and the side of his head grew a big red bruise that oozed with blood. He was all alone and his mind became black and blank. When he awoke it was pitch black out and he couldn't see anything except for another hairy spider standing over him.

Except that this one was the biggest and hairiest spider that he had ever seen. "I still don't understand," the spider mumbled to himself. "I smell a human but I don't hear anything."

Harry quickly leapt to his feet.

"Who are you!?" he cried while feeling his heart start to pound against his chest.

"Aragog." The giant began. "Who are you?" he asked him back.

"Don't you see my scar? I'm Harry Potter. Well that's my birth name anyway, but everyone still recognizes me by my lightning bolt scar for some strange reason." He said.

"Well maybe most people do, but I can't see anything. I'm blind." Aragog told him.

"Oh I'm sorry." Harry said but that's when he suddenly realized what that had meant. The creature couldn't see him. Harry turned around and started to run.

"Attack!" Aragog shouted. "The human is escaping!" he yelled when Harry suddenly found himself being chased by a bunch of smaller (but still larger than normal just not as big as Aragog) spiders. Harry continued screaming while they chased him through the woods while he hoped and prayed that he would find Ron and then find a way out.