like Harry felt. His mouth was stretched wide in a kind of silent scream and his eyes were popping. Amelia had her hand on her heart, breathing deeply and muttering profanity under her breath.
Harry suddenly realised that the spider which had dropped him was saying something. It had been hard to tell, because he clicked his pincers with every word he spoke.
'Aragog!' it called. 'Aragog!'
And from the middle of the misty domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant emerged, very slowly. There was grey in the black of his body and legs, and each of the eyes on his ugly, pin- cered head was milky white. He was blind.
'What is it?' he said, clicking his pincers rapidly.
'People,' clicked the spider who had caught Harry.
'Is it Hagrid?' said Aragog, moving closer, his eight milky eyes wandering vaguely.
'Strangers,' clicked the spider who had brought Ron.
'Kill them,' clicked Aragog fretfully. 'I was sleeping ...'
'We're friends of Hagrid's,' Harry shouted. His heart seemed to have left his chest to pound in his throat.
Click, click, click went the pincers of the spiders all around the hollow.
Aragog paused.
'Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before,' he said slowly.
'Hagrid's in trouble,' said Harry, breathing very fast. 'That's why we've come.'
'In trouble?' said the aged spider, and Harry thought he heard concern beneath the clicking pincers. 'But why has he sent you?' Harry thought of getting to his feet, but decided against it; he didn't think his legs would support him. So he spoke from the ground, as calmly as he could.
'They think, up at the school, that Hagrid's been setting a – a – something on students. They've taken him to Azkaban.'
Aragog clicked his pincers furiously, and all around the hollow the sound was echoed by the crowd of spiders; it was like applause, except applause didn't usually make Harry feel sick with fear. Amelia looked around the spiders were angry, she could hear their whispers of rage.
'But that was years ago,' said Aragog fretfully. 'Years and years ago. I remember it well. That's why they made him leave the school. They believed that I was the monster that dwells in what they call the Chamber of Secrets. They thought that Hagrid had
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Amelia Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PART 1
FanficPlease read my first book, Amelia Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. PART 1 and PART 2 first or none of the following will make sense. Thank you. This story is marked CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION not becouse I wish for people to rewrite my work but b...
