"If this Acromantula is a gift for me, I'd absolutely love it!"
"Let me see whether it's male or female."
"If it's female, that would be wonderful. Some of my little friends happen to need female spiders from outside."
Hagrid gazed at the Acromantula on the table, brimming with curiosity and delight.
He even boldly picked the Acromantula up to check its sex.
As Katelyle listened to Hagrid and watched him pick Aragog up for an inspection, a smile spread across his face.
Harry and his two friends looked at Hagrid with some bemusement.
Since they knew the Acromantula's identity, they were surprised that Hagrid had failed to recognize him, and found it rather amusing.
"It's male? What a shame."
Hagrid set the Acromantula back on the table, looking disappointed.
"Rubeus, is this how you treat your friends?" Aragog finally couldn't hold back after hearing Hagrid's words.
"You can talk?"
Aragog's voice startled Hagrid. An Acromantula this small couldn't speak human language, yet the one before him...
"Merlin's beard, why does that voice sound so familiar?"
As if something had occurred to him, Hagrid stared incredulously at the Acromantula before him and cried, "You're Aragog?"
"Who else would I be?" Aragog said, bitterly disappointed. "We shared our childhood. I still remember what you looked like when you were young, but you've forgotten what I looked like, Rubeus."
Even after hearing Aragog's words, Hagrid still found it hard to believe. "Why are you here? Why have you become so small?"
Aragog looked at Katelyle. "Professor Kate is very interested in the truth about what happened fifty years ago. I had no way to refuse."
Hearing this, Hagrid recalled those days, then said, his spirits sinking a little, "Well, it was an unpleasant past."
"What killed that little girl back then was