Spider (Harry Potter)

Spiders are eight-legged and eight-eyed arachnids.
==Description==
They are very common and come in many species, varying from region to region; all are carnivorous and some are venomous, but for the most part they are relatively harmless and could sometimes be used as a potion ingredient.The largest species of spider was the Acromantula, a wizard-bred species which also had the ability to speak, along with being extremely dangerous carnivores with a taste for human flesh. Spiders are known for spinning webs. The webs of the Acromantula were large and dome-shaped. - Chapter 2, Spiders of all sizes feared the Basilisk above all other things, which caused those at Hogwarts to flee into the Forbidden Forest in the 1992–1993 school year.The charm Arania Exumai could be used to repel and blast aggressive spiders away from an individual; indeed, this spell was particularly useful when repelling Acromantulas. - Chapter 23 (Tom Riddle) - Chapter 27 (Spider Attack) Spiders often inhabited dark environments, like the Cupboard Under the Stairs, Broomsheds, and even the Forbidden Forest.
==History==
The Cupboard Under the Stairs was said to have a large amount of spiders living in it alongside Harry Potter, who did not mind them in the least. When Vernon Dursley bellowed "Silence!" at Harry when the boy interrupted him, a couple of spiders fell from the ceiling in response, likely startled by the noise.In 1992, spiders fled Hogwarts when a Basilisk was unleashed from the Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione Granger notched their strange behaviour and Hermione used it to piece together what was petrifying people in the school.The Tarantula is a family of spiders, examples of which can be found for sale in Knockturn Alley. In Borgin and Burkes, there was a cage that had living, huge black spiders in it.
Barty Crouch Jnr, disguised as Alastor Moody, taught his fourth year Defence Against the Dark Arts class the use of the Unforgivable Curses, performing one of each of the three curses on one of each of three spiders. In 1995, the trio found spiders as big as saucers in a dresser in the dining room of 12 Grimmauld Place, with Ron leaving the room to make a cup of tea and did not return until they were gone, due to his aforementioned Arachnophobia.Mr. Spindle's Lick "O" Rish Spiders were a wizarding confection shaped like spiders. 
==Types of spiders==
*Acromantula
==Behind the scenes==
*In , the three Unforgivable Curses are demonstrated in the Defence Against the Dark Arts class on an (tailless whip scorpion), - Chapter 7 (Mad Eye Moody) which is in fact not a true spider but is a member of the same class.
*Alastair was a spider found the first draft of . He lived in the Cupboard Under the Stairs and Harry had befriended him, not having any other friends.The Lost Harry Potter Character You Never Got to Meet, io9
*The spider that Ron faced off in resembles closely to a Black widow, with the exception of its size.
*At one point of the film adaptation, Ron wakes up from a nightmare in which spiders presumably tried to make him tap dance. Harry, who was pouring over the Marauder's Map at the time, told Ron to, "tell those spiders", that he didn't want to dance, and he promptly fell back asleep.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Boggart Known Forms
Category:Hogwarts Potion Ingredients
Category:Spiders