Harry Potter: Miss Malfoy

"Lumos."

The deeper you go into the forest, the harder it is for the moonlight to penetrate.

Harry drew his wand, trying to get some light for them both, but was immediately obliged to eliminate the weak light.

When the wand flashed, the spiders in front of Harry and Draco scurried in all directions, apparently extremely sensitive to light.

"We can only move forward in the dark."

Harry looked back at Draco and spoke apologetically.

"N-Never mind. Keep going."

Even though I'm not as scared as I was at the beginning, my heartbeat is still beating fast.

In the darkness, Harry held the wand in his right hand, walked cautiously ahead, sideways, following the spider's trail.

His left hand swung back slightly, allowing Draco to grasp the sleeve of his robes.

From time to time, she pretended to casually pat him with her backhand, feeling Draco's fingertips firmly grasping the clothes, trying to give him some comfort.

This was his compromise as he was too embarrassed to hold Draco's hand.

"Dumbledore said we could ask him what happened fifty years ago."

I tried to find some topics to distract Draco, but I found that I was just repeating what Dumbledore said before he left.

Harry himself was nervous.

"Don't we already know that?"

"The person who actually opened the Chamber of Secrets was Riddle. Hagrid was framed."

"But we still don't know where the entrance to the secret room is."

"Maybe the spider would know..."

"The spider was raised by Hagrid, right? If it knew, wouldn't it tell Hagrid?"

"Maybe he's too scared to say it? The basilisk in the chamber is his natural enemy."

"If that's the case, then there's no point in us looking for it, right?"

"If you don't even want to tell Hagrid, how can you be willing to tell us..."

Draco's words conveyed the message that she was unwilling to step into the forbidden forest.

But even so, she still followed Harry closely.

Knowing that Draco had been through a lot tonight; she might have been through Hermione being attacked.

"You are right, but I believe Dumbledore should have his own arrangements."

Harry paused, looking earnestly at Draco with his emerald eyes.

Draco was stunned for a moment, and his heartbeat somehow slowed down a lot.

"Will you believe me?"

Harry pressed the matter, grimacing and mimicking Riddle's words in a sinister and dark way.

Draco was stunned for a moment, then chuckled and cursed softly.

"you......"

"Stupid Potter."

Seeing Draco's smile gradually spread, Harry's lips curled up as well.

-

I don't know how long I walked, but I had already strayed from the path and just followed the spider into the grassy area with intertwined branches.

"It seems like I never apologized for first grade."

Harry held out his wand hand and waved the branches aside, waiting for Draco to pass before suddenly speaking.

"Which one? You have a lot to apologize for."

Pretending to be angry, Draco lowered his body and walked under the branches.

Then he turned around, raised his wand, and helped Harry steady the branch that was swinging back.

The other hand was still tightly grasping Harry's left robe sleeve.

"We were punished to do things in the forbidden forest."

"I was in so much pain at the time that I couldn't care less about anything else and asked you to stand in front of me. It's not very gentlemanly if you think about it carefully."

"You've done a lot of ungentlemanly things."

Draco grumbled quietly, remembering the fight in the corridor on Valentine's Day.

I thought it was just an ordinary memory coming to my mind, but my face suddenly blushed at the tacit understanding between the two of them.

Harry's heart skipped a beat when he was struck by Draco's sudden coquettishness, and he recalled the night he drank the transfiguration potion.

Especially, the look on Draco's face when he lied to himself and Ron.

As we went deeper, the spiders moved slower and the front of the team seemed to stagnate.

Just as Harry was about to step forward to find out what was going on, his left sleeve was pulled tightly.

I turned around and saw Draco's eyes filled with fear.

There was a "hiss" and the crisp sound of clothes being torn, accompanied by Draco's exclamation.

It was too dark at night, and they didn't realize until the other party made a move that they were surrounded by a dozen spiders covered with black fur.

Behind Draco, a spider about five feet tall was waving its two front claws.

It seemed that she was trying to grab Draco, which caused the side of her robe to rip.

Draco and Harry looked around. The spiders surrounding them were almost as tall as their bodies, swinging their giant claws angrily.

The fear in Draco's heart was gradually replaced by discomfort and despair.

Suddenly, I felt a pain in my waist and abdomen, and the giant spider behind me had grabbed me by the waist.

His hands waved forward helplessly, he struggled and screamed, but the only sound he could hear in his ears was the pounding of his heart.

Until the palms and backs of your hands are enveloped by warmth.

While swaying, I saw Harry was also caught.

He was struggling with the spider that had grabbed him, and at the same time he stretched out his hands and held himself firmly.

-

"Hagrid sent us here! We are Hagrid's friends!"

Harry kept shouting, not sure if these spiders could understand human language.

While calling, he led Draco.

I keep telling myself that no matter what, our overlapping palms cannot be separated.

Draco believed that he had come to the depths of the forest.

Fortunately, the giant spider responded to good Hagrid's name.

He stopped making threats and took the two men to the core of the forest.

Along the way, the clasped hands never separated.

"Aragog! Aragog!"

Come to the basin where the spiders live and grab Harry's spider opening.

Perhaps out of respect for Hagrid, Harry and Draco were put down safely.

Even after being freed from hostage situation, the two still did not let go of each other.

The spider named Aragog walked out slowly, its eyes flashing with strange light, which seemed even more intimidating in the dark night.

Aragog was much larger than the other spiders around him, with some white spots in his dark fur. He was obviously the leader of the spider group.

"I was sleeping..."

He spoke impatiently, and his eight milky white eyes glanced at Harry and Draco respectively.

"Strange humans? Why bring them here? Share the food."

"He said Hagrid sent for them..."

The spider stretched out its side foot and pointed at Harry.

Aragog stepped forward, eight eyes fixed on Harry.

Harry felt a little scared, and felt Draco's trembling palm gently tighten around him.

The warmth from his fingertips gave Harry courage.

He also secretly reminded himself again of his determination to rescue Draco no matter what.

"Hagrid has been captured. They suspect that Hagrid released the snakes from the Chamber of Secrets..."

"Shut up!"

Before Harry could say the word basilisk, Aragog interrupted him angrily.

The spiders started a commotion of fear, as if the mere mention of the basilisk's existence was enough to make them feel uneasy.

"How dare you mention that creature here!"

"Even Hagrid asked me several times, I didn't want to mention it in front of the family."

Aragog's murderous intent was overwhelming, Harry explained hastily.

"It was released again to harm..."

"I know it without you telling me. Do you think I can't feel it from such a distance?"

Roaring angrily.

“It feels exactly the same as it did fifty years ago.”

"I remember when Hagrid said they found the girl's body in the toilet,"

"I begged Hagrid to let me go."

"You know what happened fifty years ago!"

Noticing Aragog was talking about the past, Harry wanted to continue the conversation.

"You have to tell us."

"We want to stop him. We want to help Hagrid."

"is it?"

Aragog said maliciously.

"Hagrid has more powerful friends to help him than you."

"Besides, Hagrid won't have any Slytherin friends."

Eight eyes suddenly stared at the silver-green snake emblem on the chest of Draco's robe.

Harry expected Draco to panic.

But she seemed too absorbed in thought to notice Aragog's threatening gaze.

"We have always hated that monster and would not miss any opportunity to harm its kind."

"As for you, 'Friend of Hagrid', unfortunately, I have no reason to prevent my children from enjoying the delicious food that is delivered to their door."

Harry noticed, with some horror, that Aragog was slowly backing away, and that the spiders were beginning to gather around them.

Harry hurriedly pulled Draco hard, bringing her back to reality, and pulled out the wand he had put away when he was caught by the spider.

Seeing Draco's hand shaking as he held the wand, he thought to himself that he must not let her fall in front of him no matter what.

"'Lumos!'"

They all turned on the light sources at the same time, but the weak light only made the advancing spider hesitate for a moment.

After discovering that the bright light cast by the two was not dazzling enough to cause harm, the spiders swarmed over.

Harry stepped in front of Draco, ready to take the first blast.

Suddenly, two silver-white lights came at high speed from the distance of the forest.

The spider, which had been leading the charge and had raised its giant pincers to attack, suddenly twisted its eight claws and huddled on the ground.

A silver-white phoenix spread its wings and soared beside the two of them, while a doe with the same sheen circled around them.

Draw a protective circle between Harry, Draco and the spider swarm.

Aragog let out a low growl of resentment and rushed forward.

Then there was a "snap" sound, and the two felt their calves being tightly hugged, and after another "snap" sound, the world was spinning.