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"Sometimes we could scare them off. Sometimes. Those eyes. Lifeless, evil eyes. Eight of them. When they're towering over you, all you see is your own fear multiplied eight times. That and their fangs, shiny with venom. One by one the spiders picked us off. The victims' screams were awful. Pierced my soul like a blade, hearing my neighbours coming to such a gruesome end. Not dissimilar to a Dementor's Kiss I would imagine. The silence was a relief. We wished them a quick death, and for ourselves too, if it came to it. Especially then."
— A survivor's recount of the attack[src]

This spider attack occurred at Aranshire in or shortly before the 1890–1891 school year.[1]

History[]

Mary Portman secretly bred spiders in her cellar for profit. Many of the spiders came out of the ground one day and forced some of the residents in the village to take to a roof without getting hold of their wands. All were picked off by the spiders, except only two including Pete, who were saved by a witch flying by low in the air. The other survivor wrote about the incident to their dear one afterwards.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Hogwarts Legacy, Side Quest "Tangled Web"