Chapter 91: Chapter 275: Hermione did not want to face Aragog
Chapter 275: Hermione did not want to face Aragog
Many of them are talking about her hot curves.
Hermione was really embarrassed listening to their comments that her face turned red.
Harry and Ron returned back after one day of exploring and did not finding the spiders.
But they did not give up and started to go out every night to search.
Hermione did not go with them and decided to do the search on her own.
On May 24th they finally will be able to meet the Aragog.
Walking with Fang as their guide along the trails of the spiders, which are strangely all fleeing Hogwarts, takes them into the Forbidden Forest.
Even though Ron has deep arachnophobia, Hermione is not here with them that they may be able to help through this investigation gives him the willpower to go along anyway.
There, they encounter Arthur Weasley's car, which had apparently taken to driving through the forest like a wild animal.
The two boys follow the spiders deeper into the forest all the way into a webbed lair.
There, they are met by a now adult but ageing Aragog, who reveals that Hagrid is innocent.
Then it explains his past from being given to Hagrid as an egg by a distant traveler to his accusation as the Chamber's resident monster until his transfer to the Forbidden Forest and his founding of his colony with Mosag.
When Harry asks of the monster that killed the girl in 1943,
Aragog states it is an ancient creature that all spiders as well as giant ones fear and that they never mention its name nor speak about it, even when Hagrid asked many times, and adds that the dead girl was found in a bathroom.
Harry and Ron thank him and turn to leave, but Aragog halts them, deciding to leave them as dinner for his children.
Mr. Weasley's Ford Anglia comes blasting through the layers of spiders, however, and enables the boys and Fang to escape.
Ron is furious that Hagrid has endangered their lives until Harry explained his logic.
After this, Harry and Ron feel that they have reached dead ends everywhere, until one possible last hope occurs to them.
Recalling Aragog's statements of the dead girl in the bathroom Harry deduces that Moaning Myrtle might have been that victim.
Of course, with the school under such security, it will be almost impossible to sneak in the girls' bathroom near where the first attack occurred.
When they returned back they told the entire story to Hermione.
Hermione also told them that she found the name of the beast and some information about the beast.
She had discovered, based on strong circumstantial evidence, that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a Basilisk, one of the giant "Kings of all Serpents".
This explains the mysterious voice that only Harry could hear, as he can speak Parseltongue.
The Basilisk kills people by looking it in the eye, but no one died because nobody had directly looked at its deadly gaze.
Colin Creevey saw it through his camera, Justin Finch-Fletchley saw it through Nearly-Headless Nick who was already dead and since he couldn't die "again", he was only petrified,
Mrs. Norris saw a reflection of it in the waters of the flooded bathroom, and Penelope Clearwater has used a mirror to look around corners after she has figured things out.
Hermione told them that spiders flee from it and how a rooster's crowing is potentially fatal to the Basilisk,
This explains Hagrid's roosters having been killed during the year.
Both Ron and Harry were slightly frightened.
They then decided to get more information from the library while Hermione decided to talk about this matter with Professor Lockhart.
Well soon Lockhart would no longer be able to remember anything.
So she decided to play with him for a few days before letting him move on.
Naturally Harry and Ron did not have a problem with that.
They also want to know if Lockhart can defeat the basilisk.
This is because both Harry and Ron don't know that Lockhart is a fake adventurer.
Well their ignorance is what is good for Hermione.
Days later, Professor McGonagall informed the students that the Mandrake Draught will soon be ready.
Later that same day, Harry, Hermione and Ron manage to trick Lockhart who is leading them to their next class into letting them go by stroking his ego.
Just as they pat themselves on the back, they get caught by Professor McGonagall, and Harry has to make up an excuse they were going to see Colin, Harry's fan boy in the Hospital Wing, where visitors were now barred.
On May 29th, they are here to see if there are any other clues that they can get.
Hermione then connected the situations and told them that the basilisk is moving around using the plumbing which helps them to realize that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
Having solved the mystery, Harry, Hermione and Ron decide to go to the staff room and report to the teachers.
When they get there, they overhear the teachers talking about another attack having occurred.
Harry and Ron decide to hide to hear more details, and learn that Ginny has been kidnapped by the Basilisk, and the heir of Slytherin has left another message under the previous one.
"HER SKELETON WILL LIE IN THE CHAMBER FOREVER"
Harry and Ron also hear that Hogwarts will be closed tomorrow.
The teachers then force Lockhart to deal with the monster, as he has been claiming he could handle whatever is responsible for the attacks.
Looking very crestfallen, he leaves for his room.
Harry and Ron decide that if Lockhart is going to deal with the monster they might as well tell him what they know.
But Hermione did not want to go with them and want to report to professor Flitwick to have him as extra insurance if things go out of hand.
They go to his room, only to find him frantically planning to run away.
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