"Hiss... Hm? Damn it, someone's peeping!"
"Maybe the pair of Magic-Breaking Pincers behind your shoulder blades just touched the door and dispelled the Charms on it?... Ah... Penelope, wait!"
But after letting out that furious shout in her new voice, Penelope, in her spider form, went to pull open the door. Because her now-enormous body clearly made it difficult to move around in the ward, she could only twist the human part of her upper body to do it, which also caused Allen, hanging from spider silk inside the room, to be bumped several times.
"Hah!" Penelope's anger vanished the moment she opened the door. "That Weasley boy fainted from fright and pissed himself..."
"Afraid of spiders... Ron? Penelope... get me down first and untie this spider silk..." Allen looked rather embarrassed.
Penelope said nothing. One of her spider legs shut the door again, while what was probably still a human-shaped hand recast spells on the door. Her enlarged upper body turned back with the twisting of her spider abdomen in a posture that looked somewhat awkward.
"Get you down?" All eight of her eyes were full of mockery. "Female spiders are used to eating their mates afterward."
As she spoke, Penelope manipulated the spider silk to turn Allen around, leaving him, bound in silk, hanging upside down with his head below and feet above. Perhaps because the blood was rushing to his head, the wizard's pale face became quite ruddy.
A little later, noises came from outside the door. A passing healer found Ron collapsed on the floor and, together with a colleague, diagnosed that the unconscious boy had probably eaten too much pumpkin and upset his stomach.
But because Penelope had recast the spells, none of the sounds inside the room were discovered by anyone outside.
However, the