"The truth is simple enough, if you ask the right person."
"Besides, was Tom Riddle, now Lord Voldemort, really a kindhearted soul?"
Katelyle looked at Harry and his two friends with a smile.
By this point, things had more or less run their course.
Harry and the others had worked very hard lately, even doing more than they ever had before.
That was genuine progress-the kind that involved using their brains.
With the progress Harry and the others had made, they were getting closer and closer to the answer.
"Do we need to find Hagrid?" Harry asked at once, understanding what he meant.
"No, I've already asked him to come over," Katelyle said with a smile. "But before that, let's hear what Aragog has to say."
"The Acromantula?" Hermione asked immediately.
"Yes." As Katelyle spoke, he drew a circle in the air with his wand.
Harry and his two friends nodded, looking rather expectant.
In the Forbidden Forest, Aragog, the Acromantula sleeping beneath a tree, was suddenly enveloped in light.
The light startled Aragog awake, and his body rapidly shrank at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Then, in an instant, he vanished.
When he appeared again, Aragog saw enormous figures standing before him.
"Hello, Aragog!"
Katelyle looked at Aragog with a smile.
Aragog froze at the sight of the man before him, then became utterly terrified. His little eyes darted about, and his legs flailed as he tried to escape.
Aragog naturally recognized Katelyle. Last year, Katelyle had given him a thrashing and extracted a few things from his body to brew potions.
If he had been able to fight back, he would have liked nothing more than to strike Katelyle hard.
"This is Aragog? The Acromantula from the Forbidden Forest?" Harry asked in disbelief, looking at the