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  aid harry
  ”he39s gone to chan to thg ore suitable, i thk…and he said he39d
  g bottles we can drk to aragog39s -ory”
  ”did he?” said hagrid, lookg both astonished and touched ”tha39s — tha39s righ39 nice of hi, that is, an39 not turn39 yeh ei-ther i39ve never really had a lot ter do with horace sghorn before  39 ter see old aragog off, though, eh? well  he’d39ve liked that, aragog would  ”
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  harry thought privately that what aragog would have liked ost about sghorn was the aple aount of edible flesh he pro-vided, but he rely oved to the rear dow of hagrid39s hut, where he saw the rather horrible sight of the enoro dead spider lyg on its back outside, its legs curled and tangled
  ”are we gog to bury hi here, hagrid, your garden?”
  ”j39 beyond the pupk patch, i thought,” said hagrid a choked voice ”i39ve already dug the — yeh know — grave j39 thought we39d say a few nice thgs over hi — happy ories, yeh know —”
  his voice ivered and
  oke there was a knock on the door, and he turned to answer it, blog his nose on his great spotted handkerchief as he did sghorn hurried over the threshold, several bottles his ars, and wearg a ber bck cravat
  ”hagrid,” he said, a deep, grave voice ” very rry to hear of your loss”
  ”tha39s very nice of yeh,” said hagrid ”thanks a lot an39 thanks fer not giv harry detention neither  ”
  ”wouldn39t have dread of it,” said sghorn ”sad night, sad night  where is the poor creature?”
  ”out here,” said hagrid a shakg voice ”shall we — shall we do it, then?”
  the three of the stepped out to the back garden the oon was glisteng palely through the trees now, and its rays gled with the light spillg fro hagrid39s dow to ilate aragogs body lyg on the ed of a assive pit beside a ten-foot- high ound of freshly dug earth
  ”agnificent,” said sghorn, approachg the spiders head, where eight ilky eyes stared bnkly at the sky and o hu, curved pcers shone, otionless, the oonlight harry thougln he heard the tkle of bottles as sghorn bent over the pcers, apparently exag the enoro hairy head
  ”its not ev39ryone appreciates how beau39iful they are’ said h grid to sghorn39s back, tears leakg fro the rners of his crkled eyes ”i didn39 know yeh were terested creatures like aragog, horace”
  ”terested? y dear hagrid, i revere the,” said sghorn, steppg back fro the body harry saw the glt of a bottle disap-pear beneath his cloak, though hagrid, oppg his eyes once ore, noticed nothg ”now  shall we proceed to the burial?”
  hagrid nodded and oved forward he heaved the gigantic spi-der to his ars and, with an enoro grunt, rolled it to the dark pit it hit the botto with a rather horrible, crunchy thud hagrid started to cry aga
  ”of urse, it39s difficult for you, who knew hi best,” said sghorn, who like harry uld reach no higher than hagrid39s el-bow, but patted it all the sa ”why don39t i say a few words?”
  he t have got a lot of good ality veno fro aragog, harry thought, for sghorn wore a satisfied sirk as he stepped up to the ri of the pit and said, a slow, ipressive voice, ”farewell, aragog, kg of arachnids, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew you won39t fet! though your body will decay, your spirit lrs on the iet, web-spun pces of your forest ho ay your any-eyed descendants ever flourish and your huan friends fd ce for the loss they have staed”
  ”tha was  tha was  beau39iful!” howled hagrid, and he lpsed onto the post heap, cryg harder than ever
  ”there, there,” said sghorn, wavg his wand that the hu pile of earth rose up and then fell, with a uffled rt of crash, onto the dead spider, forg a sooth ound ”lets t side and have a drk t on his other side, harry  that39s it up you e, hagrid  well done ”
  they deposited hagrid a chair at the table fang, who had been skulkg his basket durg the burial, now ca paddg ftly across to the and put his heavy head to harry39s p as ual sghorn unrked one of the bottles of e he had
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