Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Edgar Degas The Rehearsal painting

Edgar Degas The Rehearsal paintingEdgar Degas The Bellelli Family painting
Yeah — Ron and Hermione couldn't, though," said Harry. "They're really sorry."
"Don — don matter . . . Hed've bin touched yeh're here, though, Harry. . ."
Hagrid gave a great sob. He had made himself a black armband out of what looked like a rag dipped in boot polish, and his eyes were puffy, red, and swollen. Harry patted him consolingly on the elbow, which was the highest point of Hagrid he could easily reach.
"Where are we burying him?" he asked. "The forest?"
"Blimey, no," said Hagrid, wiping his streaming eyes on the bot-tom of his shirt. "The other spiders won' let me anywhere near their webs now Aragog's gone. Turns out it was only on his orders they didn' eat me! Can yeh believe that, Harry?"
The honest answer was "yes"; Harry recalled with painful ease the scene when he and Ron had come face-to-face with the aero-mantulas. They had been quite clear that Aragog was the only thing that stopped them from eating Hagrid.

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