Several students were petrified in the school after the monster were unleashed. Aragog was framed as being the monster and Hagrid was accused of being Slytherin's heir. In 1943, Tom Marvolo Riddle, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin who would later become Lord Voldemort, opened the Chamber of Secrets and unleashed the resident monster, the Serpent of Slytherin, upon the castle to exterminate its Muggle-born population, those who were "unworthy" to study magic. " They believed that I was the monster that dwells in what they call the Chamber of Secrets." - Aragog After Aragog died, some of his venom was taken by Horace Slughorn and was most likely stored in Horace's potion cabinet. Ironically, all spiders feared the Basilisk, as it was their mortal enemy. During his life, Aragog was accused of being Slytherin's Monster, although the monster was really a Basilisk. Īragog had a wife, Mosag, and was the leader of a large Acromantula colony composed of all of his sons and daughters. In his youth, he was the size of a Pekingese and near the end of his life was about the size of a small elephant with an eighteen-foot leg span. Like the rest of his species, Aragog had a taste for human flesh and was able to communicate with humans with speech. 1942 – 20 April 1997) was an Acromantula owned by Rubeus Hagrid. " He had known Hagrid to present a vicious baby dragon with a teddy bear, seen him croon over giant scorpions with suckers and stingers, attempt to reason with his brutal giant of a half-brother, but this was perhaps the most incomprehensible of all his monster fancies: the giant talking spider, Aragog, who dwelled deep within the Forbidden Forest and which he and Ron had only narrowly escaped four years previously." - Harry Potter in his sixth year thinking about Hagrid's friendship with Aragog Īragog (c.
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