Azkaban: The Fifth House of Hogwarts

Ahead is a valley, a low-lying valley located in the middle of the Forbidden Forest. The vertical cliffs on both sides are five to sixty meters high. If the cliffs on both sides weren't too far apart, it would be easy to give the impression that this is a valley. The feeling of splitting a sharp sword through it.

The full moon was hanging over the valley. The bright white moonlight covered the forest trees with a veil, but it could not illuminate the depth of the valley.

It was like an abyss swallowing up the light, hiding everything in it in darkness.

It's a spider web....

The spider webs wrapped around the branches and trunks are entangled and layered. They weave into a magical curtain, covering up the murderous intentions inside the valley. Even if there are birds flying from high altitude, they cannot see the danger when they lower their heads. Underneath.

Acromantulas are lazy predators. Although they will actively hunt in groups, more often than not, they prefer to hide in the dark, or use spider webs to network prey, or wait for the prey to be unaware. They get close, then spit out spider silk and leap out, piercing the poisonous claws into the prey's body. After waiting for a while, they can suck the food that has turned into juice.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Hagrid put down Rollo and then spoke softly.

After he finished speaking, a rustling sound came from directly in front of them.

A huge creature walked out of the dark curtain woven by the spider web and came to the sparse forest bathed in moonlight.

"Hagrid."

An old voice sounded, and along with the clanging sound of big turtles, a huge black shadow appeared in front of them.

If he hadn't known in advance that the creature he was coming to see was an Acromantula, then Rollo would have thought of some unknown alien monster the first moment he saw Aragog.

Hagrid is already very tall, but Aragog in front of him is even bigger than Hagrid. Even if the legs that are at least five meters long are not fully extended, the body supported by these long legs is already higher than Hagrid. At one end, the body like a heavy truck seems extremely heavy, but it has a strange lightness.

It was obviously only supported by those pairs of long legs that were extremely slender compared to the body, but there was no loud noise matching Aragog's huge body when he moved. If you close your eyes and listen to the rustling sound, , what appeared in my mind might be a deer that strayed into the bushes, staggering and clumsily looking for the exit.

"You don't have to come out, Aragog. You know I will go in to find you, right?"

Hagrid stepped forward and walked in front of Aragog's huge body. He stretched out his hand and touched Aragog's furry head. The hair on it, like steel needles, seemed unable to penetrate his skin.

"I can still walk." Aragog opened his mouth, and when he spoke, he was always accompanied by the sound of the friction and collision of the big fish. These noises made his words slightly confusing, "And you also brought... Are you a guest?"

"My children are a little bit crazy. I can't let you bring this child in, if he is a guest you brought, not food rations or something like that..."

"Stop joking, Aragog, this is not good!"

After hearing these seemingly dangerous words, Hagrid immediately spoke sternly. He glanced at Rollo's position with some embarrassment. Aragog's words were indeed easily misunderstood.

'Is my ability invalid against spiders? Rollo, who also heard these words, fell into deep thought. What Aragog said was very strange, at least not so... in line with common sense.

Although Rollo couldn't bear to look directly at the animalistic tendencies of the ancestor of this body, the Sad Wind Emperor, it can be said that the Sad Wind Emperor's affinity with silicon-based beings such as the Stone Man, the Mother of the Earth, was completely As long as he is a 'non-human', he must lie down.

Although spiders look like insects, they are essentially animals. This is not even silicon-based creatures. Rollo doesn't believe that he can't even handle the Acromantula.

'If it weren't for the failure of the ability, then this would be the only possibility. '

Rollo raised his head and looked at Aragog, looking directly into its cloudy white eyes.

"Can I go in and have a look, Hagrid? In their lair."

These extremely bold words made Hagrid stunned, and Aragog, who was beside him, spoke firmly with an old voice.

"You can't go in, Hagrid can, but no one can go in except him."

"Aragog, Rollo is my friend, a very good friend, he is not an outsider."

Hagrid, who opened his mouth to explain, didn't know why Rollo wanted to visit the spider's cave, but he thought it was not impossible.

"He's going to die, Hagrid."

Aragog's huge head turned towards Hagrid, "There is something wrong with my children. Even I... I spent a lot of effort to calm them down."

"The desire to hunt is rising. Does this boy you brought hide any secrets? I have never seen my children as eager to leave and do something as they are tonight."

Aragog didn't seem to be lying. What he said when facing Hagrid was credible.

"Hagrid, although I don't know why this is happening, my children, their current situation is very wrong. Hagrid, the guests you brought are very dangerous."

"Leave, I don't want him to get hurt."

Aragog's huge body lay low, its belly touching the ground, so that Rollo could see its eyes without having to raise his head.

"Sorry for scaring you." Aragog's big claws seemed to be clashing fiercely, but his words were gentle.

"You're not afraid of me, are you? Just like Hagrid, you're not afraid of me, are you?"

There was no obvious emotion in Aragog's voice, but Rollo seemed to hear a subtle desire in it.

"Yeah, I'm not scared."

Rollo nodded gently. He walked calmly to Aragog and patted its big claw. This was one of the few parts of the Acromantula that was not covered by fine steel wool. If he could imitate Hagrid and touch it, If you touch its head, you will probably find hundreds of holes in the palm of your hand.

"You are very good, Hagrid's friend. I am very happy to meet a second person who, like Hagrid, does not regard me as a monster and hates me. You have a feeling that makes me close. Although I will not hurt you, but The same cannot be said for my children.”

"Maybe they will eat you, maybe they will take you to their nest, but either way, I don't think that would be a good thing. I know them because that's what I was like when I was young."

"Although I still remember everything that happened to me when I was young, and I still remember what I heard at that time, but when I couldn't speak, I could hardly understand all those things. I only knew that Hagrid brought me food. , Hagrid helped me escape from the pursuit of natural enemies, and he also found me a wife, my Mosag..."

"Because of this, the young me did not attack Hagrid. You may know that we Acromantulas are not actually close creatures. Hunting is our instinct, eating is our nature, and it is our highest glory. Just swallow it into your belly, and even in the last second, it was still a companion or a relative next to you."

"After Mosag died, I was the one who ate it. Maybe you can't imagine it, but this is how we Acromantulas express our closeness and love. This is something you humans can't understand and don't need to understand, because This is destined for us at the moment of our birth.”

"So, you are in danger."

Aragog carefully moved closer, and those eight eyes, two large and six small, looked at Rollo.

"I can control my desires. I want to express my desire to be close to you, but my children can't. If I don't forcefully order them, they will already come out in a hurry."

"This is dangerously close to you."

Aragog's big claws made several loud crashing sounds, which seemed to be warning something.

Rollo's eyes followed the gaps in Aragog's body and looked back. In the hazy light, thousands of eyes were looming in the darkness shrouded by cobwebs.

"Maybe it's time we had a talk, Hagrid."

After warning and suppressing the heirs behind him, Aragog straightened up and spoke to Hagrid.

"I'm about to die. I can already clearly feel my weakness, and my eyes are starting to blur. Maybe before long, I will be completely blind. And at that time, I will be even more unable to control my child. them."

"Kill them, Hagrid, I can't cause you trouble, and I can't..." Aragog seemed to glance at Rollo, "I don't want this child to get hurt either."

"He will still enter this forest, right? If this child comes after I die, then no one can control them."

These cold and ruthless words put Hagrid into an unbelievable shock. Hagrid was completely unable to understand what Aragog said. He had never heard Aragog say this to him before.

Although Hagrid couldn't figure out why, Rollo seemed to have some understanding in his heart.

"It's really scary..." He looked down at his palms. This invisible and intangible ability was somewhat beyond Rollo's expectations.

In the original work, Aragog did not let Hagrid handle his child until his death. After his death, the Acromantula was no longer Hagrid's friend. Even when Voldemort invaded Hogwarts, this group of Brainless spiders are also driven to attack Hogwarts.

As for the current changes...Rollo couldn't give any explanation except that it was related to himself.

"But aren't those your children?"

After struggling for a long time, Hagrid finally asked this question.

"Yes, some of them are my and Mosag's children, and I am their leader. There is nothing wrong with that." Aragog answered calmly, without a hint of emotion.

"Maybe you can't understand that only beings like me can be considered my kind. Although they are all Acromantulas, they are just spiders."

"They are my heirs, but they are also my slaves and my property. I care about them, but that doesn't mean I can't give them up. After I die, they will be nothing."

"If there is no next king who can inherit my wealth, then I will die. I am just a group of slaves. There is nothing to regret."

This understanding, which is completely different from that of humans, belongs exclusively to Acromantulas. Acromantulas do not have the warmth of parents and children, but only have tangible benefits. Their heirs are wealth, and their territory is also wealth.

Just like they will eat their dead and injured companions, there is no such tender and warm emotion in the indifferent society of Acromantulas.

The only competitor of the old king is the new king who succeeds him. Unfortunately, Aragog cannot wait until that time.

"This child is more important than them, so I choose to let them die and you live."

Although Aragog's voice was cold when he said these words, in Rollo's ears, these words were filled with a strange warmth.

Although he did not fully understand all of Aragog's thoughts, he had already felt the kindness and concern.

Although it was their first meeting, it seemed that in Aragog's heart, Rollo's weight in Aragog's heart was heavier than Hagrid's master.

Hagrid is its feeder and master, but Rollo is its god, a god who wants to show closeness at all costs and is expected to be touched by his hand, a god who is expected but out of reach.

"I want to see it with my own eyes, is that okay?"

These somewhat confusing words made Aragog confused.

"Remove your inhibitions and I want to see what your children will do to me without your control."

"Rolo, this is not a joke, are you crazy?"

Before Aragog could speak, Hagrid scolded him sternly.

Hagrid is not afraid of the Acromantula. In the original book, Hagrid was able to drag Aragog's body out of the spider lair that was already hostile to him and hold a funeral for Aragog safely. These spiders could not do anything to Hagrid. , but this does not mean that Hagrid can prevent Rollo from being injured while carrying an oil bottle.

"I'm not crazy, Hagrid. Dumbledore allowed me to enter the Forbidden Forest just to let me verify my abilities, what my abilities are like, what are its specific effects, and what power it can exert. "

"Even Professor McGonagall, the advanced research on Animagus transformation requires my ability to do some things, and confirming this power is the prerequisite for everything."

"This is an experiment."

Rollo spoke firmly.

"It's really dangerous, very dangerous!"

Hagrid still persisted in his persuasion and insisted on his own opinion.

"If I let go of the suppression, it would be difficult to order them again."

At this time, Aragog also spoke.

"I can tell my kids not to eat a piece of meat that's put in front of them, but if they've already taken their first bite, it's hard to stop their eating instincts even if I want to. arrive."

Faced with the friendly and concerned persuasion of one person and one spider, Luo Luo accepted the kindness, but he also had his own reasons for doing so.

"Don't worry. Professor Dumbledore promised me that as long as I'm in Hogwarts, nothing will happen to me. If you can't trust me, then please trust Professor Dumbledore."

"I won't risk my life as a joke. Since I dare to do this, I have the confidence to do so."

"I'll be fine, trust me."

Rollo looked at Hagrid and patted Aragog's big clam. The serious expression on his face didn't seem to be fake.

"If Professor Dumbledore said it..."

As Hagrid is absolutely loyal to Dumbledore, his Dumbledore always has a mysterious trust. Hagrid believes that Dumbledore is omnipotent and there is nothing in the world that he cannot solve.

"The professor told me personally that nothing will happen. Don't worry, Hagrid. Don't worry, Aragog."

Seeing Luo Luo's persistence and full of confidence, the rejection was slightly relieved at this moment.

"I'm standing behind you." Hagrid stood behind Rollo like an iron tower, giving people incomparable peace of mind.

"If you insist."

Aragog also gave way to the passage to the lair behind him.

"Thank you for your trust."

Rollo said with a smile, and then stared at the darkness ahead.

As Aragog's giant claws collided with a crisp sound, countless scalp-numbing sounds surged out of the originally silent lair.

These sounds gathered into a torrent in an instant, and a black tide rushed out of the darkness. The moonlight illuminated the tide composed of thousands of Acromantulas.

These Acromantulas that swarmed out did not have the sense that Aragog had. They were like a group of fanatic believers who were so fanatical that they could not be expressed in words and had burned themselves brightly. They rushed towards Rollo.

Countless big turtles made countless clicking sounds, and the silence of the originally silent Forbidden Forest was broken at this moment.

There was commotion coming from all directions, and the magical creatures with sensitive hearing noticed the strange changes in the spider lair here.

"It seems that the affinity is true."

Rollo murmured to himself after seeing the enthusiasm shown by the Acromantula. He did not flinch, and even took a step forward.

"But for creatures that don't have the ability to think, or don't have enough thinking ability, and simply act based on instinct... this affinity will be liberated to the greatest extent."

"What if I said..."

"Stop!"

Rollo shouted loudly, but as Aragog said before, when he was young, as an Acromantula, he could not understand 'human language'.

Since you can’t understand it, you can’t understand it, let alone follow it.

"It seems that being completely brainless is also an obstacle. However, like the Acromantula, there should not be many existences in nature that have brains but do not have any thinking ability, not to mention the fact that 'devouring' is the highest Ways of intimacy.”

"Interesting discovery."

Just before the tide of spiders was about to submerge him and Hagrid was about to take action to protect him, Rollo raised his right hand and called out a name.

"Fox."

The flames that appeared out of thin air formed a towering wall. Fox, who spread his wings, faced the surging spiders with his back. Fox's golden and red feathers were filled with molten fire. It was originally petite. At this moment, it grew several times larger out of thin air.

"Just let them go back to the nest and stay there. I will be useful later."

Rollo reached out and touched Fox's little head. His hand passed through the flame that seemed to be able to melt gold into iron, but was not injured at all.

Fox let out a string of cheerful groans, and then the fire flowed to both sides, turning into a line of fire to intercept the tide of Acromantulas. The flames comparable to the scorching sun instantly suppressed the surging spiders, and the people who crashed into the flames The Acromantula was ignited, burned, and reduced to ashes in an instant.

The Acromantulas that had just left the nest quickly disappeared into the darkness. After leaving almost a third of their bodies, they shrank back into the dark nest. Like the Basilisk, fire was also their natural enemy. .

There is a slightly burnt aroma floating in the Forbidden Forest, which is the wonderful smell emitted by the Acromantula that has been roasted but not burned.

"Maybe it tastes good?"

Under Fox's disgusted gaze, Rollo broke off a section of the spider's leg and took out a piece of snow-white flesh as long as an arm.

"It tastes just like crab. Do you want to try it, Hagrid?"

Rollo extended the invitation, but it took a long time before he heard Hagrid's response.

"Taste...taste, let me taste...I...what happened???"