Who is it?
Hagrid? Is that you?
We're friends of Hagrid. [A colossal, tarantula-like spider emerges] You... You're Aragog, aren't you?
Yes. Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before.
Well, 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.
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.
[notices other giant spiders around them and grabs Harry's jacket to get his attention, whimpering]
Harry...
Shush. [to Aragog] Well, if you're not the monster, then... then what did kill that girl fifty years ago?
We do not speak of it! It is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others.
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.
[irritated]
What? [Ron points upwards and whimpers in terror; looks up and sees giant spiders descending and surrounding them; to Aragog] Well... thank you. We'll just go.
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, friends of Hagrid.
One. But it's not powerful enough for all of them.
Where's Hermione when you need her? [the flying Ford Anglia suddenly appears]
