Aragog



Aragog is an Acromantula, a large talking spider with a taste for human flesh.

Aragog was raised in his early years by Rubeus Hagrid, who was then a student at Hogwarts, and was with Hagrid from the time he was an egg to when he was about the size of a Pekingese. Hagrid used to keep him in a cupboard in one of the school's dungeons until Tom Marvolo Riddle, better known as Voldemort, blamed Aragog for the death of a child in that particular year. Hagrid was expelled after an investigation was made and Aragog had to flee into the Forbidden Forest. There he found a mate and eventually spawned a colony. He lived in a huge, dome-shaped web.

Harry Potter and Ron Weasley first encountered the arachnid in 1993[HP2] in an attempt to locate the so-called "Slytherin's Monster", which had been attacking students again. At the time, Aragog was already old and blind, but still sane, and after a brief interrogation attempted to have Potter and Weasley captured by his children for food.

Aragog died in 1997[HP6] and was buried by Hagrid, Harry Potter, and Professor Slughorn. It is not known who rules the Acromantula colony in his place.