He was a skin changer in the hobbit he shape shifted in to a bear and lived in the misty mountains
The correct option is A.
In the passage given above, it can be seen that Dallow as the defence lawyer of these boys exaggerated and blamed all the circumstances surrounding the boys for their crime in order to manipulate the audience to believe that the situations surrounding them is the reason they behaved the way they did, otherwise they are normal children
This passage allows us to see into the inner struggle and loneliness of the character. This is revealed in the phrase "interior gloom" while he faces the "open lattice" but he was not looking at anything at all. He was engrossed in his own thoughts and feelings of a closure or an ending of life implied in the phrase "the fire had smouldered to ashes." The surroundings was so silent and cold as revealed in the words "damp, mild air," "cloudy evening" and "so still."