In the back garden, Elwyn and Harry stopped at a distance.
Elaine took a few steps closer to Aragok, but when she saw the big hairy head and the eight weirdly curved spider legs, she immediately stuck out her tongue and retreated.
Slughorn, on the other hand, followed Hagrid to the spider's head and examined it closely.
The eight milky white eyes stared blankly at the sky, and the two curved pincers were motionless in the moonlight, making people's hearts palpitate.
"This must be Aragok. It's beautiful," Slughorn said and bent down in front of the pincers, as if he was examining the big hairy head.
As he moved, they could vaguely hear the clinking of bottles.
"Not everyone can appreciate its beauty, but for those who understand them, Aragok is infinitely attractive." Hagrid said affectionately to Slughorn's back, tears flowing from the corners of his wrinkled eyes. "I never knew you were interested in animals like Aragok."
"Interested? Dear Hagrid, I revere them. " Slughorn stepped back from the corpse, and the light from the bottle flashed and disappeared into his cloak.
Elwyn blinked. The collection was successful?! That was fast.
Sure enough, a Master Potion Master was also a master in the collection of potion materials.
Hagrid, who was wiping his eyes, did not notice Slughorn's small movements.
"Now... shall we start the funeral?"
Hagrid nodded, stepped forward, and dragged the giant spider.
He screamed and rolled it into the black pit.
When the corpse hit the bottom of the pit, it made a terrible noise, and Hagrid cried again.
"Of course, you can't stand it, because you know it best, are its closest person, and are Aragok's best human friend." Slughorn could only reach Hagrid's elbow, but he still patted him. "If you don't mind, let me say a few words."
With a satisfied smile on his face, he walked to the edge of the pit.
Said Slughorn in a slow, solemn voice. "Farewell, Aragok, Lord of Spiders. Your long and faithful friendship will be remembered by all who knew you! Though thy flesh shall decay, thy spirit shall remain for ever in the quiet cobwebbed place of thy Forest House. May thy many-eyed descendants multiply, and may thy human friends find comfort in their grief.
"W-well said … That's too beautiful!" Hagrid cried out and collapsed on the pile of dung, crying even harder. "Boohoo, it's great that you can come. I can never say such words."
"Alright, don't be too sad, Hagrid!" Slughorn said as he waved his wand, and the pile of dirt rose up and pressed heavily on the dead spider, forming a smooth mound. "Let's go in and have a drink. Boys, help him up. Well, just let Elwyn and Harry do it. Elaine, you don't have to help."
Under Slughorn's direction, Elwyn and Harry laboriously helped the grief-stricken Hagrid to a chair in front of the table, and they sat around him.
Fang, who had been hiding in the basket during the funeral, now padded over and laid his heavy head on his lap as usual.
Slughorn opened a bottle of wine he had brought and poured most of it into Hagrid's bucket-sized glass, making a gurgling sound.
"I've checked. There's absolutely no poison," he said. "Harry," he said, "after what happened to your poor friend Robert, I made a house-elf taste every bottle of wine."
This was a classic case of house-elf abuse. Fortunately, Hermione wasn't here.
"One for me, one for Elwyn, one for Harry …" Slughorn poured the second bottle of wine into the three glasses in front of himself, Elwyn, and Harry. Then he stopped at Elaine's glass and asked uncertainly, "Elaine, can you drink?"
"She drinks milk!" Elwyn said, taking out a milk bottle and pouring it into Elaine's glass.
"I want to taste the wine," Elaine requested.
"You can't drink it!" Elwyn still remembered the terrible thing that happened to Elaine the last time she drank some wine.
"I can drink it!" Elaine protested.
"Relax, Elwyn. Our Elaine is a big girl. She's old enough to drink. Besides, what's better than wine at a time like this?" Slughorn said.
"Then give her some," Elwyn said hesitantly. Iven said hesitantly. Right now, the point was not whether Elijah should drink or not, but to make Slughorn hand over his memories.
Elwyn took the bottle and poured a little for Elaine as she watched.
"Give me more!"
"That's enough. You just need to taste it." Elwyn said, glaring at Elaine to tell her not to drink too much. Who knew what she would be like after drinking?
Hermione wasn't here, and Elwyn couldn't handle Elaine alone.
"Done!" Seeing Elwyn pour the wine for Elaine, Slughorn raised his glass high. "For Aragok."
"For Aragok," everyone said together, raising their glasses.
Slughorn and Hagrid both took a big gulp. Inspired by the Elixir of Blessing, Harry knew he couldn't drink, so he pretended to take a sip and put the glass back on the table.
Elwyn pursed his lips a little and looked at Elaine worriedly.
Elaine cautiously picked up her glass and drank a little of her drink, which was a mixture of blood, milk, and wine. Then she sat there smacking her lips and didn't react.
"I raised him from an egg." Hagrid said sadly, slamming the glass on the table. "He was so small when he first hatched, the size of a pug."
"He's so cute," Slughorn said.
"Yeah, I kept him in the cupboard at school until … sigh …"
Hagrid's face darkened as he remembered being kicked out of school.
But Slughorn didn't seem to be listening. He just stared at the ceiling, where a few copper pots were hanging and a long, smooth white hair was hanging.
"That's not unicorn hair, is it, Hagrid?"
"Oh, it's unicorn hair!" Hagrid said carelessly. "I pulled it off its tail and hung it on a branch in the forest …"
"But my dear friend, do you know how much it's worth?"
"Not much. I use it as a bandage when an animal is injured," Hagrid said, shrugging his shoulders. "It's very good, very strong, you see."
He picked up the unicorn tail hair and gave it a tug.
Elwyn realized that Hagrid might be the richest person in the world. Apart from him, no wizard would be so extravagant as to use unicorn hair as a bandage.
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