Professor, please pay the debt

Ron and Hermione came back late afternoon.Harry was sitting on the lawn reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

"Harry!" cried Hermione as soon as she got out of the carriage, "Harry, I passed the test!"

"Good job! Where's Ron?"

"He - he's only close," whispered Hermione.Ron walked over listlessly, looking extremely depressed.

"Unlucky, for something so minor - the examiner just saw half of his eyebrows drop... How's Snape?"

"Why ask him?" Harry asked in surprise.

"He found Colin..." Ron sat down next to Harry wearily, "What?"

"No points deducted!" Hermione was most concerned about this, "He just wanted Colin to send you a message..."

"Colin didn't come to see me."

"Yeah, he didn't dare!"

Ron said weakly, in fact, no one except Hermione and Ron dared to mention Snape in front of Harry, and Harry was kind to Colin, just stern.

Others were not so lucky. Lucius just said a few good words for Snape, and then he was tortured by Harry with the Dark Mark and passed out.Of course, Ron didn't know about it, and what he knew was enough for him to oppose Harry's approach.

"Colin has become a poor little boy! Both sides dare not offend, so can't you make it clear to Snape and tell him to get out of here!"

"I'll look for him."

"Break up?" Ron asked hopefully, "No! Just teach him some manners, how to get along with my friends."

"Forget it, Ron, it's not a noble thing for us to persuade people to break up like this." Hermione turned to Harry hesitantly, "According to Colin, Snape taught him...well, in a hurry, he seems There are difficulties..."

What difficulties could Snape have!

He was sane and showed no signs of being under the Imperius Curse.If the old lunatic threatened him...impossible!Harry knew very well that the only thing the old madman could use to blackmail Snape was himself.

"He used Veritaserum on me, there's no doubt about it. So, Hermione, I don't accept the so-called difficulties."

Harry's speech was slow, solemn and poignant, and it made the two friends realize how hard it had hit him again, so they didn't bring it up again.

They chatted for a while about the afternoon exam. Ron complained about the examiner's strictness. They spent most of their dinner scolding the apparition examiner. When they walked back to the common room, Ron seemed to be in a slightly better mood. A bit, and now the conversation turned to the old problem of Hagrid and his giant spider.

"Are you really going?" Ron was inexplicably surprised.

"Yes, I have to go, and it's not just me, I want to be with..."

Before Harry could finish speaking, Ron announced a name, "Colin! The person you trust the most."

……

Harry stared at Ron for a full minute, and finally came to a conclusion that surprised him, "You're jealous!"

In fact, Harry had already felt that way, ever since Ron learned that Colin knew about Snape and Harry's relationship before him, Ron was a little bit weird.

"It's ridiculous, I'm not someone like you! Hahaha."

Ron laughed exaggeratedly, and Hermione patted Harry on the shoulder happily, "You finally guessed it, it's a bit late, but it's better than not knowing, you know, he mentions Colin a hundred times a day on average. Time, oh, I'm so sick of it."

It was more horrifying news than Snape's jealousy, and Harry had to take a little longer to accept it.

In the end, he shamefully betrays Colin in order to preserve his friendship with Ron.

So Hagrid's question was ignored, and they talked only about Colin and the three Mr. Circles before he left for the Forbidden Forest.

……

Aragog's funeral was made quite grand by the presence of Slughorn.Hagrid didn't mind the absence of Ron and Hermione, who was overwhelmed by Slughorn's prepared eulogy.

The three of them stood together in Hagrid's back garden as the moon shone dimly between the trees. The moonlight mixed with the light from Hagrid's window, illuminating Aragog lying on the edge of a large pit. next to a mound of fresh earth ten feet high.

Slughorn said in slow, solemn tones: "Farewell, Aragog, Lord of the Spiders, your long and loyal friendship will not be forgotten by those who knew you! Though yours may rot, your spirit shall remain The serene, cobwebbed place of your forest home. May your many-eyed offspring prosper, and may your human friends find comfort in their sorrow."

"That's... well said... that's beautiful!" Hagrid howled, and fell on the mound, crying even harder.

Harry winked at Slughorn, "Of course you can't stand this, Hagrid, go in, I'll bury Aragog."

Slughorn was very cooperative, taking Hagrid's elbow to his feet, "Well, well, let's go in and have a drink. I've brought Firewhiskey. It couldn't be more appropriate for the day."

The half-giant wailed, walking back to the house and shouting at Aragog's body, "Goodbye, my friend!"

……

After they entered, Harry stared at the ugly corpse and wondered, what attracted Hagrid?

The giant spider was lying on its back, with eight milky white eyes on its head staring blankly at the sky, and its two curved claws remained motionless in the moonlight.

This look can be called terrifying.Harry didn't have much time to waste, though.He deftly put the body into the space of the ring, and used the Transfiguration Charm to turn a stone into the shape of Aragog and bury it in the deep pit dug in advance.

Slughorn just wanted some venom, but Harry wanted it all.Otherwise, he didn't need to attend the funeral.

After finishing all this, he also entered Hagrid's hut. As soon as he entered the door, he heard Hagrid yelling in a loud voice, "Harry is a potion genius. He made Aragog live two months longer."

Harry was taken aback for a moment, then realized that the bottle of spider tonic was developed by Snape.The good mood of getting the big spider disappeared without a trace in an instant.

He sat by the table with a dejected expression, took a full glass of wine from Slughorn, "Cheers to loyalty!"

"cheers!"

"For Aragog!"

That night, the three of them got drunk, Harry and Slughorn failed to return to the castle, Slughorn slept under the table all night, and Harry kept dreaming, dreaming that he was about to be swallowed by Veritaserum drowned, and Snape stood by, waking up to find himself drowned in Fang's spit.