Marvel: I, Hermione, am from Hogwarts!

“Hagrid must be trying to tell us something,” Harry said.

"Then why haven't you gone yet?"

Ron was a little embarrassed: "I... I want to find you before I go..."

Got it, I'm afraid of spiders.

Hermione nodded: "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go."

Night falls on the edge of the forbidden forest.

“Let’s go.” Hermione took the lead.

Harry and Ron followed closely behind, and the three of them ventured deeper into the Forbidden Forest along a winding path.

Harry gripped his wand tightly, his palms slightly sweaty.

Ron was pale and kept looking back, as if afraid something might pounce out of the darkness.

Hermione walked at the front, her expression calm, as if she were just taking an ordinary nighttime stroll.

The surroundings were quiet, with only the soft sound of a few people stepping on the fallen leaves.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from ahead.

Harry and Ron immediately tensed up.

One after another, enormous spiders crawled out of the bushes, densely packed together, and surrounded the group.

“It’s spiders… lots of spiders…” Ron’s voice trembled as he leaned closer to Hermione.

Harry, trying to remain calm, shouted, "We are Hagrid's friends!"

A spider of exceptionally large size, as tall as a two-story building, slowly emerged from the shadows, sending chills down one's spine.

Aragog, the eight-eyed giant spider raised by Hagrid.

"Hagrid's friend?"

Aragok made a human voice.

Harry stepped forward, trying to make his voice sound calm: "Hagrid has been imprisoned in Azkaban, and they say... he opened the Chamber of Secrets."

Aragok let out a low laugh.

"Hagrid? Open the secret room? Impossible."

"Who is that?" Harry asked eagerly.

“I don’t know,” Aragog said slowly. “All I know is that it wasn’t Hagrid. When Hagrid hid me in a closet at school, the person who opened the secret room wasn’t him.”

"Who attacked Myrtle?"

Aragok said slowly, "It lives in the castle."

"So, what attacked the students really was something in the secret room?" Ron asked.

Aragok did not answer.

It slowly turned around and hissed at the spiders around it.

"I've answered enough of your questions. Hagrid is my friend, but you are not."

Aragok's voice was cold and hoarse.

"My children need fresh flesh and blood."

The surrounding spiders immediately became agitated and approached the group.

Harry and Ron stood back to back, waving their wands and trying to scare away the spiders.

"These are creatures of darkness."

Hermione snorted coldly.

She looked at the spiders that had surrounded her, her tone tinged with sarcasm.

"Never try to truly understand them; they only follow their instincts."

My friend's friend isn't my friend, right?

Skillful.

She thought so too.

Aragog?!

Harry gasped in surprise, his voice trembling as he looked at the enormous eight-eyed spider before him.

Ron was so frightened that his face turned pale, his legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

Countless tiny spiders swarmed in from all directions, surrounding the three of them.

"Spiders, begone!"

Harry raised his wand and frantically cast a spider-repelling charm.

A faint light flickered, and the surrounding spiders retreated slightly.

However, it didn't have much effect.

Faced with this overwhelming, countless swarm of spiders, their feeble resistance seemed so pale and powerless.

"Have you forgotten what I said in Defense Against the Dark Arts class?"

Hermione's voice came through, carrying a hint of coldness.

She slowly raised the Destruction Wand in her hand.

"Avada eats the big melon!"

A green light flashed.

"boom!"

Aragog's massive body crashed to the ground, and his eight enormous eyes instantly lost their luster.

Deathly silence.

Harry and Ron stared in disbelief at what they were seeing.

Harry stammered, pointing at Aragog's corpse, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.

“That’s Hagrid’s friend… How are we going to explain this to Hagrid…”

Hermione gave him a cold look.

"Explain?"

"It almost made you food for those spiders!"

"Hagrid will need to give us an explanation when he returns!"

Aragog's death briefly shocked the spiders, but it only fueled their ferocity once they recovered.

After a brief silence came an even more frenzied riot.

"What should we do?" Ron's voice trembled.

"What else can we do?" Hermione retorted. "Fight our way out!"

“But… even with the Unforgivable Curse, we can’t kill them all,” Harry said.

“I know,” Hermione said calmly.

The wand was raised and pointed forward.

"Freeze!"

An icy blue light burst forth from the tip of the wand.

The cold air spread outwards from Hermione's center.

Those spiders that were originally baring their fangs and claws were quickly enveloped in ice.

The ice spread extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the entire spider nest was frozen solid.

Countless spiders were frozen in the ice, turning into ice sculptures, retaining their ferocious postures before death.

Chapter 99 The Secret Chamber Opens

Harry and Ron stared wide-eyed at what they were seeing.

“Let’s go,” Hermione said.

Harry and Ron snapped out of their daze and caught up with Hermione.

"You...your magic..."

“It’s just a regular freezing spell,” Hermione said casually. “I just amplified it a little bit.”

Ron swallowed hard: "Just a little bit?"

“You guys go back first,” Hermione suddenly said.

"And what about you?" Harry asked.