Harry and Ron had tried to visit Hermione, but visitors _____ now ______ from the hospital wing.

"In trouble?" said the aged spider, and Harry thought he heard ___________ beneath the clicking pincers. "But why has he sent you?"

But Lockhart's disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, ________ Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart'

"My sons and daughters do not __________ Hagrid, on my command. But I cannot __________ them fresh meat, when it wanders so willingly into our midst. Good-bye, friend of Hagrid."

The sides of the car were scratched and smeared with mud. Fang didn't seem at all _________ it; he kept close to Harry, who could feel him quivering.

Harry's eyes narrowed as he focused on the spiders. If they ________ their fixed course, there could be no doubt about where they would end up.

They couldn't move very quickly now; there were tree roots and stumps in their way, _______ visible in the near blackness.

"We've lost the _________," he said. "C'mon, let's go and find them."

And from the middle of the misty, domed web, a spider the size of a small elephant _________, very slowly.

"So you never - never attacked anyone?" "Never," croaked the old spider. "It would have been my instinct, but out of respect for Hagrid, I never ______ a human

So, with Fang scampering around them, ___________ tree roots and leaves, they entered the forest

Harry and Ron ________ _____ the others so they could talk out of earshot.

Then, when the trees had become _________ than ever, so that the stars overhead were no longer visible, and Harry's wand shone alone in the sea of dark, they saw their spider guides leaving the path.