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  nd ron leapt out of his seat and hurried around the table away fro the r barrel standg the rner that they had only jt noticed it was full of what looked like foot-long ots, sliy, white, and writhg
  ”what are they, hagrid?” asked harry, tryg to und terested rather than revolted, but puttg down his rock cake all the sa
  ”j39 giant grubs,” said hagrid
  ”and they grow to ?” said ron, lookg apprehensive
  ”they won39 grow ter nuth39,” said hagrid ”i got 39e ter feed ter aragog”
  and without warng, he burst to tears
  ”hagrid!” cried herione, leapg up, hurryg around the table the long way to avoid the barrel of ots, and puttg an ar around his shakg shoulders ”what is it?”
  ”it39s  hi ” gulped hagrid, his beetle-bck eyes strea-g as he opped his face with his apron ”it39s  aragog i thk he39s dy39 , he got ill over the sur an39 he39s not tt39 better i don39 know what i39ll do if he if he we39ve b terther long ”
  herione patted hagrid39s shoulder, lookg at a plete loss for anythg to say harry knew how she felt he had known ha-grid to present a vicio baby dragon with a teddy bear, seen hi croon over giant srpions with suckers and strs, attept to rean with his
  utal giant of a half-
  other, but this was perhaps the ost prehensible of all his onster fancies: the gigantic talkg spider, aragog, who dwelled deep the forbidden forest and which he and ron had only narrowly escaped four years previoly
  ”is there — is there anythg we can do?” herione asked, ig-norg ron39s frantic griaces and head-shakgs
  ”i don39 thk there is, herione,” choked hagrid, atteptg to ste the flood of his tears ”see, the rest o39 the tribe aragog39s faily  they39re tt39 a bit funny now he39s ill bit restive ”
  ”yeah, i thk we saw a bit of that side of the,” said ron an undertone
  ” i don39 reckon it39d be safe fer anyone but ter go near the lony at the o39,” hagrid fished, blog his nose hard on his apron and lookg up ”but thanks fer offer39, herione it ans a lot ”
  after that, the atosphere lightened nsiderably, for although neither harry nor ron had shown any clation to go and feed giant grubs to a urdero, gargantuan spider, hagrid seed to take it for granted that they would have liked to have done and be-ca his ual self once ore
  ”ar, i always knew yeh39d fd it hard ter seeze ter yer titables,” he said gruffly, pourg the ore tea ”even if yeh applied fer ti-turners —”
  ”we uldn39t have done,” said herione ”we sashed the en-tire stock of istry ti-turners when we were there st su-r it was the daily prophet”
  ”ar, well then,” said hagrid ”there39s no way yeh uld39ve done it i39 rry i39ve b — yeh know — i39ve j39 b worried about aragog an i did wonder whether, if profesr grubbly-pnk had b teach39 yeh —”
  at which all three of the stated categorically and untruthfully that profesr grubbly-pnk, who had substituted for hagrid a few tis, was a dreadful teacher, with the result that by the ti hagrid waved the off the preises at dk, he looked ite cheerful
  ”i39 starvg,” said harry, once the door had closed behd the and they were hurryg through the dark and deserted grounds he had abandoned the rock cake after an oo crack-g noise fro one of his back teeth ”and i39ve got that detention with snape tonight, i haven39t got uch ti for dner ”
  as they ca to the castle they spotted rac en en-terg the great hall it took hi o attepts to t through the doors he richeted off the fra on the first attept ron rely guffawed gloatgly and strode off to the hall after hi, but harry caught herione39s ar and held her back
  ”what?” said herione defensively
  ”if you ask ,” said harry ietly, ”en looks like he was nfunded this orng and he was standg right front of where you were sittg”
  herione bshed
  ”oh, all right then, i did it,” she whispered ”but you should have heard the way he was talkg about ron and gny! any-way, he39s got a nasty teper, you saw how he reacted when he didn39t t — you wouldn39t have wanted one like that on the tea”
  ”no,” said harry ”no, i s