格林德沃及其相关原文摘录（《HP》7）下
格林德沃及其相关，在《哈利波特与死亡圣器》中的原文节选摘录。
摘录按原作章节顺序，原著中逐渐引出格林德沃的三条线索：巴希达姑婆、格里戈维奇魔杖、死亡圣器，都相对完整地保留下来，希望可以保留阅读原著时逐步勾勒人物的感觉。
摘录时为了阅读体验，在出现关键人名的段落附近，相关上下节会“淡入淡出”同样引用进来，所以体量可能会相对冗长，在关键处会加粗下划。
引用格式是文中的书信。【】内容是哈利感应到的伏地魔的行动思想。
中文翻译来自人民文学出版社，但翻译不能完全还原原文。
本节高频考点：伤疤直播GG之死+阿不思福专访+阿不思专访
（文章有五W字数限制，长文章编辑得头秃，只好分节发了）
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“Marvolo Gaunt!You-Know-Who’s grandfather! In the Pensieve! With Dumbledore! Marvolo Gauntsaid he was descended from the Peverells!”
“马沃罗·冈特！神秘人的外祖父！在冥想盆里！和邓布利多一起！马沃罗·冈特说过他是佩弗利尔的后代！”
Ron andHermione looked bewildered.
罗恩和赫敏看起来都很迷惑。
“The ring, the ringthat became the Horcrux, Marvolo Gaunt said it had the Peverell coat of arms onit! I saw him waving it in the bloke from the Ministry’s face, he nearly shovedit up his nose!”
“戒指，变为魂器的戒指，马沃罗·冈特说上面有佩弗利尔的纹章。我看到他在魔法部官员的面前挥舞着它，差点要碰到那人的鼻梁了！”
“The Peverell coatof arms?” said Hermione sharply. “Could you see what it looked like?”
“佩弗利尔的纹章？”赫敏忙问，“你看见它是什么样子了吗？”
“Not really,” saidHarry, trying to remember. “There was nothing fancy on there, as far as I couldsee; maybe a few scratches. I only ever saw it really close up after it hadbeen cracked open.”
“其实没有，”哈利说，努力回忆着，“我所看到的，上面没有什么花哨的东西，可能有一些刮痕。只是在它被劈开以后，我才靠近看过。”
Harry sawHermione’s comprehension in the sudden widening of her eyes. Ron was lookingfrom one to the other, astonished.
从赫敏突然瞪大的双眼，哈利看出她顿悟了。罗恩来回看着他们两个，满脸惊讶。
“Blimey…You reckon it was this sign again? The sign of the Hallows?”
“我的天哪……你认为又是这个标志？圣器的标志？”
“Why not?” saidHarry excitedly, “Marvolo Gaunt was an ignorant old git who lived like a pig,all he cared about was his ancestry. If that ring had been passed down throughthe centuries, he might not have known what it really was. There were no booksin that house, and trust me, he wasn’t the type to read fairy tales to hiskids. He’d have loved to think the scratches on the stone were a coat of arms,because as far as he was concerned, having pure blood made you practicallyroyal.”
“为什么不会呢？”哈利激动地说，“马沃罗·冈特是个愚昧的老饭桶，活得像猪一样，惟一关心的就是他的血统。如果那枚戒指已经传了好几个世纪，他很可能不知道那到底是什么。那个家里没有书，相信我，他不是那种读童话给小孩子听的人。他肯定很想把那石头上的刮痕说成是纹章，因为对他来说，拥有纯血统 就意味着身份高贵。”
“Yes…and that’s allvery interesting,” said Hermione cautiously, “but Harry, if you’re thinkingwhat I think you’re think –”
“对……那是很有趣，”赫敏谨慎地说道，“但是哈利，如果你在转那个念头——”
“Well, why not? Whynot?” said Harry, abandoning caution. “It was a stone, wasn’t it?” He looked atRon for support. “What if it was the Resurrection Stone?”
“为什么不能？为什么不能？”哈利顾不上谨慎了，“它也是块石头，不是吗？”他看着罗恩，希望得到支持，“如果它就是复活石呢？”
Ron’s mouth fell open.
“Blimey – but wouldit still work if Dumbledore broke –?”
罗恩张大了嘴巴：“我的天哪——但是被邓布利多打坏了，还会有效吗——？”
“Work? Work? Ron, itnever worked! There’s no such thing as a Resurrection Stone!”
“有效？有效？罗恩，它从来就不曾有效过！根本就没有复活石这种东西！”
Hermioneleapt to her feet, looking exasperated and angry. “Harry you’re trying to fiteverything into the Hallows story –”
赫敏蹦了起来，又急又怒，“哈利，你是在把什么都往死亡圣器的故事里套——”
“Fit everything in?”he repeated. “Hermione, it fits of its own accord! I know the sign of theDeathly Hallows was on that stone! Gaunt said he was descended from thePeverells!”
“往里套？”哈利争辩道，“赫敏，那是自然吻合！我知道那块石头上有死亡圣器的标志！冈特说他是佩弗利尔的后代！”
“A minute ago you told us you neversaw the mark on the stone properly!”
“一分钟前，你还说过你从没真正看清那石头上的标志！”
“Where’d you reckonthe ring is now?” Ron asked Harry. “What did Dumbledore do with it after hebroke it open?”
“你猜那枚戒指这会儿在哪儿？”罗恩问哈利，“邓布利多劈开它后，又把它怎么处置了？”
But Harry’simagination was racing ahead, far beyond Ron and Hermione’s…
但是哈利的想象已经飞到前面，远远超过了罗恩和赫敏的思路……
Threeobjects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor master of Death…Master…Conqueror…Vanquisher…The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death…
三件东西，或圣器，合在一起，就会使拥有者成为死神的主人……主人……征服者……胜利者……最后一个要消灭的敌人是死亡……
And he sawhimself, possessor of the Hallows, facing Voldemort, whose Horcruxes were nomatch…Neither can live while the other survives…Was this the answer? Hallowsversus Horcruxes? Was there a way after all, to ensure that he was the one whotriumphed? If he were the master of the Deathly Hallows, would he be safe?
然后他看到自己，死亡圣器的拥有者，面对着伏地魔，魂器根本不是对手……两个人不能都活着，只有一个生存下来……这就是答案吗？圣器对魂器？难道有办法保证他最终获胜？如果他是死亡圣器的拥有者，就会安全吗？
“Harry?”
“哈利？”
But he scarcely heard Hermione: He had pulled out his Invisibility Cloak andwas running it through his fingers, the cloth supple as water, light as air. Hehad never seen anything to equal it in his nearly seven years in the Wizardingworld. The Cloak was exactly what Xenophilius had described: A cloak thatreally and truly renders the wearer completely invisible, and endureseternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spellsare cast at it…
他几乎没有听见赫敏的叫声：他掏出隐形衣，让它从指缝间流过，织物像水一样软，像空气一样轻。哈利在魔法世界生活了七年，还从没见过与它匹敌的东西。这隐形衣完全符合谢诺菲留斯的描述：一件让人真真正正、完完全全隐身的斗篷，永久有效，持续隐形，无论用什么咒语都不可破解……
And then,with a gasp, he remembered –
这时，他猛吸一口气，记起来了——
“Dumbledore had my Cloak the night my parents died!”
“我父母死的那天晚上，隐形衣在邓布利多那里！”
His voiceshook and he could feel the color in his face, but he did not care.
他声音发抖，能感觉到自己脸色发红，但他顾不得了。
“My mum told Siriusthat Dumbledore borrowed the Cloak! This is why! He wanted to examine it,because he thought it was the third Hallow! Ignotus Peverell is buried in Godric’s Hollow…” Harry was walking blindly around the tent, feeling as thoughgreat new vistas of truth were opening all around him. “He’s my ancestor. I’mdescended from the third brother! It all makes sense!”
“我妈妈告诉小天狼星，邓布利多借走了隐形衣！这就是原因！他想研究它，怀疑它就是第三件圣器！伊格诺图斯·佩弗利尔埋在戈德里克山谷……”哈利在帐篷里忘乎所以地走着，感觉壮丽的、全新的真相画卷正在四周展开，“他是我的祖先！我是第三个兄弟的后代！全讲通了！”
“He felt armed incertainty, in his belief in the Hallows, as if the mere idea of possessing themwas giving him protection, and he felt joyous as he turned back to the othertwo.”
他胸中充满信心，对死亡圣器深信不疑，好像只要在脑子里拥有它们就能给他保护。他转过身对着两个同伴，满心喜悦。
“Harry,” saidHermione again, but he was busy undoing the pouch around his neck, his fingersshaking hard.
“哈利。”赫敏又叫他，但他正忙着打开脖子上的皮袋，手指抖得厉害。
“Read it,” he toldher, pushing his mother’s letter into her hand. “Read it! Dumbledore had theCloak, Hermione! Why else would he want it? He didn’t need a Cloak, he couldperform a Disillusionment Charm so powerful that he made himself completelyinvisible without one!”
“读一读，”哈利把他母亲的信塞到赫敏手里，“读一读！邓布利多拿了隐形衣，赫敏！还能有什么别的原因呢？他不需要隐形衣，他可以用强大的幻身咒使自己隐形的呀！”
Somethingfell to the floor and rolled, glittering, under a chair: He had dislodged theSnitch when he pulled out the letter. He stooped to pick it up, and then thenewly tapped spring of fabulous discoveries threw him another gift, and shockand wonder erupted inside him so that he shouted out.
有个东西掉在地板上，闪闪发光地滚到了椅子下面：他掏信时带出了金色飞贼。哈利弯腰捡起了它，这时，新打开的神奇的发现之泉又抛给了他一件礼物，他心里又惊又喜，大声喊道：
“IT’S IN HERE! Heleft me the ring – it’s in the Snitch!”
“在这儿！他把戒指留给我了——在金色飞贼里！”
“You – you reckon?”
“你——你这么想？”
He could not understand why Ron looked taken aback. It was so obvious, so clearto Harry. Everything fit, everything…His Cloak was the third Hallow, and whenhe discovered how to open the Snitch he would have the second, and then all heneeded to do was find the first Hallow, the Elder Wand, and then –
他不能理解罗恩为什么看起来大吃一惊。对哈利来说这推测如此顺理成章，如此清晰：一切都吻合，一切……他的隐形衣是第三件死亡圣器，等到设法打开了金色飞贼，他就会有第二件，然后要做的就是找到第一件圣器，老魔杖，然后——
But it wasas though a curtain fell on a lit stage: All his excitement, all his hope andhappiness were extinguished at a stroke, and he stood alone in the darkness,and the glorious spell was broken.
但是，就像是闪亮的舞台突然落下了帐幕一样，所有的激动、所有的希望和幸福在瞬间泯灭，他独自站在黑暗中，荣耀的符咒被打破了。
“That’s what he’s after.”
“那也是他寻找的东西。”
The changein his voice made Ron and Hermione look even more scared.
他声音的改变让罗恩和赫敏越发恐惧。
“You-Know-Who’s after the Elder Wand.”
“神秘人在寻找老魔杖。”
He turnedhis back on their strained, incredulous faces. He knew it was the truth. It allmade sense, Voldemort was not seeking a new wand; he was seeking an old wand, avery old wand indeed. Harry walked to the entrance of the tent, forgettingabout Ron and Hermione as he looked out into the night, thinking…
他转过身，背朝着他俩紧张、惊疑的面孔。他知道这就是真相，全都讲通了。伏地魔不是在找一根新魔杖，而是在找一根老魔杖，一根很老很老的魔杖。哈利走到帐篷口，望着外面的夜幕，完全忘记了罗恩和赫敏，他思考着……
Voldemorthad been raised in a Muggle orphanage. Nobody could have told him The Tales ofBeedle the Bard when he was a child, any more than Harry had heard them. Hardlyany wizards believed in the Deathly Hallows. Was it likely that Voldemort knewabout them?
伏地魔在麻瓜孤儿院长大的，小时候没人会给他讲《诗翁彼豆故事集》，就像哈利一样。死亡圣器几乎没有巫师相信，伏地魔会有可能知道吗？
Harry gazed into the darkness…If Voldemort had known about the Deathly Hallows,surely he would have sought them, done anything to possess them: three objectsthat made the possessor master of Death? If he had known about the DeathlyHallows, he might not have needed Horcruxes in the first place. Didn’t thesimple fact that he had taken a Hallow, and turned it into a Horcrux,demonstrate that he did not know this last great Wizarding secret?
哈利凝视着黑暗……如果伏地魔听说过死亡圣器，他肯定会寻找它们，不顾一切地去占有他们：三件能让拥有者成为死神的主人的东西？如果他听说过死亡圣器，也许一开始他就不需要魂器了。他得到过一件死亡圣器，却把它变成了魂器，这不正说明他并不知道这最伟大的魔法秘密吗？
Which meantthat Voldemort sought the Elder Wand without realizing its full power, withoutunderstanding that it was one of three…for the wand was the Hallow that could not be hidden, whose existence was best known…The bloody trail of the ElderWand is splattered across the pages of Wizarding history…
也就是说，伏地魔寻找老魔杖，并不知道它的全部功能，并不了解它是三件宝物之一……因为魔杖是最不可能被隐藏的一件圣器，它的存在最广为人知……老魔杖的血腥踪迹溅满了整部魔法史……
Harrywatched the cloudy sky, curves of smoke-gray and silver sliding over the faceof the white moon. He felt lightheaded with amazement at his discoveries.
哈利看着多云的天空，烟灰色的银色的云边滑过月亮的白色面庞。他惊愕于自己的发现，感到头有点晕。
He turnedback into the tent. It was a shock to see Ron and Hermione standing exactlywhere he had left them, Hermione still holding Lily’s letter, Ron at her sidelooking slightly anxious. Didn’t they realize how far they had traveled in thelast few minutes?
他转身回到帐篷里，令他震惊的是，两个同伴还站在原地，赫敏仍然拿着莉莉的信，罗恩在她旁边，看起来有点担忧。难道他们没有意识到刚才这几分钟里有了多大的进展吗？
“This is it?” Harry said, trying tobring them inside the glow of his own astonished certainty, “This explainseverything. The Deathly Hallows are real and I’ve got one – maybe two –”
“就是这样，”哈利说，努力把同伴拉进他惊人的已知王国的光辉里，“这解释了一切，死亡圣器是真的，我已经有了一件——或许两件——”
He held upthe Snitch.
他举起金色飞贼。
“– andYou-Know-Who’s chasing the third, but he doesn’t realize…he just thinks it’s apowerful wand –”
“——神秘人在追寻第三件，但是他没有意识到……他仅仅认为它是一根强大的魔杖——”
“Harry,” saidHermione, moving across to him and handing him back Lily’s letter, “I’m sorry,but I think you’ve got this wrong, all wrong.”
“哈利，”赫敏走了过来，把莉莉的信还给他，“对不起，但是我想你一定是搞错了，全搞错了。”
“But don’t you see?It all fits –”
“但是你看不见吗？一切都吻合——”
“Not, it doesn’t,”she said. “It doesn’t. Harry, you’re just getting carried away. Please,” shesaid as she started to speak, “please just answer me this: If the DeathlyHallows really existed, and Dumbledore knew about them, knew that the personwho possessed all of them would be master of Death – Harry, why wouldn’t hehave told you? Why?”
“不，不吻合，”她说，“不吻合，哈利，你是激动过了头。请你，”她打断了正要说话的哈利，“请你回答我这个问题。如果死亡圣器真的存在，并且邓布利多知道这些，知道拥有三件圣器就可以成为死神的主人——哈利，他为什么没有告诉你？为什么？”
He had hisanswer ready.
他已经准备好了答案。
“But you said it, Hermione! You’ve gotto find out about them for yourself! It’s a Quest!”
“你说的呀，赫敏！这需要你自己去弄清！这是一种探求！”
“But I only saidthat to try and persuade you to come to the Lovegoods’!” cried Hermione inexasperation. “I didn’t really believe it!”
“但我那么说只是为了说服你去洛夫古德家！”赫敏气得叫了起来，“我并不真正相信！”
Harry tookno notice.
哈利没有理会。
“Dumbledore usuallylet me find out stuff for myself. He let me try my strength, take risks. Thisfeels like the kind of thing he’d do.”
“邓布利多通常让我自己去弄清事情。他让我考验自己的力量，去冒险。这似乎也像是他让我做的事情。”
“Harry, this isn’t agame, this isn’t practice! This is the real thing, and Dumbledore left you veryclear instructions: Find and destroy the Horcruxes! That symbol doesn’t meananything, forget the Deathly Hallows, we can’t afford to get sidetracked –”
“哈利，这不是游戏，也不是练习。这是真实的事情，并且邓布利多给你留了很清楚的指示：找到并且摧毁魂器！那个符号不代表任何东西，忘了死亡圣器吧，我们经不起再走弯路了——”
Harry wasbarely listening to her. He was turning the Snitch over and over in his hands,half expecting it to break open, to reveal the Resurrection Stone, to prove toHermione that he was right, that the Deathly Hallows were real.
哈利几乎没有听她说话。他把金色飞贼拿在手里翻过来转过去，似乎希望它能裂开，露出复活石，向赫敏证明他是正确的，死亡圣器是真的。
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But Harryhardly slept that night. The idea of the Deathly Hallows had taken possessionof him, and he could not rest while agitating thoughts whirled through hismind: the wand, the stone, and the Cloak, if he could just possess them all…
那晚哈利几乎没有睡着。死亡圣器这个想法萦绕在他心头，激动的思绪在他脑海中回旋，使他无法休息：魔杖、石头和隐形衣，如果他能全部拥有……
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If only there was a way of getting a better wand…
要是有办法弄到一根更好的魔杖多好……
And desire for the Elder Wand, the Deathstick, unbeatable, invincible, swallowed him oncemore…
想着老魔杖、死亡棒，永不会输的无敌魔杖，欲望再一次淹没了他……
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Chapter Twenty-three Malfoy Manor
第二十三章 马尔福庄园
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As Scabior said it, Harry’s scar, which wasstretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely. More clearlythan he could make out anything around him, he saw a towering building, a grimfortress, jet-black and forbidding: Voldemort’s thoughts had suddenly becomeRazor-Sharp again; he was gliding toward the gigantic building with a sense ofcalmly euphoric purpose…
斯卡比奥说话时，哈利额头上肿胀而绷紧的伤疤猛烈地灼痛起来，眼前出现了一幅画面，比身边的任何东西都要清晰：那是一座乌黑的、令人生畏的高耸建筑，一座阴森的堡垒，伏地魔的思维又突然变得异常清晰：他正飘向那座巨型建筑，目标明确，内心平静而喜悦……
【So close… So close…】
这么近……这么近……
Witha huge effort of will Harry closed his mind to Voldemort’s thoughts, pullinghimself back to where he sat, tied to Ron, Hermione, Dean, and Griphook in thedarkness, listening to Greyback and Scabior.
哈利用了巨大的自制力，不再观看伏地魔的思维，把自己拽回到坐着的地方。他同罗恩、赫敏、迪安和拉环绑在一起，在黑暗中听着格雷伯克和斯卡比奥说话。
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They all took several steps backward,stunned by what they had done. Harry, still fighting to remain present in hisown splitting head, could think of nothing to say. Fragmented visions werebreaking across the surface of his mind -
他们都退了几步，惊讶于自己的收获。而哈利头痛欲裂，仍在努力维持着不走神，却想不出一句可说的话。片断的景象不断从他的脑海中跳出——
【–He was hiding around the high walls of the black fortress–】
……他正在黑色堡垒的高墙周围飘行——
No, he was Harry, tied up and wandless, ingrave danger–
不，他是哈利，被绑着，没有魔杖，处境极其危险——
【–looking up, up to the topmost window, the highest tower–】
……仰望着最顶层的窗户，最高的塔楼——
He was Harry, and they were discussing hisfate in low voices–
他是哈利，他们正在小声讨论他的命运——
【–Time to fly…】
……该起飞了……
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Harry’s scarseared again –
哈利的伤疤又灼痛起来——
【– and he rose intothe night, flying straight up to the windows at the very top of the tower –】
“. . . completelysure it’s him? ’Cause if it ain’t, Greyback, we’re dead.”
“……肯定是他吗？如果不是的话，格雷伯克，我们就死定了。”
“Who’s in chargehere?” roared Greyback, covering his moment of inadequacy. “I say that’sPotter, and him plus his wand, that’s two hundred thousand Galleons rightthere! But if you’re too gutless to come along, any of you, it’s all for me,and with any luck, I’ll get the girl thrown in!”
“这里谁是头儿？”格雷伯克咆哮道，掩盖着自己刚才的不够资格，“我说这个就是波特，他加上他的魔杖，一共二十万加隆！如果你们胆小不想去的话，就都是我的了，而且运气好的话，这个小妞儿还可能送给我。”
【— The window was the merest slit in the black rock, not big enough for a man to enter. . . . A skeletal figure was just visible through it, curled beneath a blanket. . . . Dead, orsleeping . . . ?】
…… 窗户是黑石块上极窄的缝隙，人钻不进去……透过它刚刚能看到 一副骨架子，蜷曲在毯子下面……是死了，还是睡着了……？
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They Disapparated, pulling the prisoners with them. Harry struggled, trying to throwoff Greyback’s hand, but it was hopeless: Ron and Hermione were squeezedtightly against him on either side; he could not separate from the group, andas the breath was squeezed out of him his scar seared more painfully still –
他们拖着犯人幻影移形。哈利挣扎着，试图甩开格雷伯克的手，但是毫无希望：罗恩和赫敏被紧紧地挤压在他的两边，他抽不出身。他肺里的空气被挤了出来，伤疤灼痛得更加厉害——
【–as he forcedhimself through the slit of a window like a snake and landed, lightly as vaporinside the cell-like room –】
……他像蛇一样挤进窄窄的窗口，轻雾一般飘落到小牢房似的屋子里——
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“Come on!“ said Greyback to his men, and the prisoners were shunted through the gates and upthe drive, between high hedges that muffled their footsteps. Harry saw aghostly white shape above him, and realized it was an albino peacock. Hestumbled and was dragged onto his feet by Greyback; now he was staggering alongsideways, tied back-to-back to the four other prisoner. Closing his puffy eyes,he allowed the pain in his scar to overcome him for a moment, wanting to knowwhat Voldemort was doing, whether he knew yet that Harry was caught….
“跟上！”格雷伯克朝手下说道。犯人们被推过大门，押上了车道，两旁高高的树篱掩住了他们的脚步声。哈利看到他的头顶上空有个幽灵般的白色影子，接着发现那是一只白孔雀。他绊了一下，被格雷伯克拽了起来。现在他侧着身子踉踉跄跄，和另外四个犯人背靠背地绑在一起。他闭上肿胀的眼睛，让伤疤的疼痛暂时战胜自己，想知道伏地魔此刻在做什么，是否已经知道哈利被抓到了——
【The emaciated figure stirred beneath its thin blanket and rolled over toward him,eyes opening in a skull of a face…. The frail man sat up, great sunken eyesfixed upon him, upon Voldemort, and then he smiled. Most of his teeth weregone….
……薄毯子下面瘦弱的身躯动了一下，转过来朝着他，骷髅般的面孔，眼睛睁开了……那个虚弱的人坐了起来，深陷的双眼盯着他，盯着伏地魔，然后笑了，牙齿几乎掉光……
“So, you have come.I thought you would… one day. But your journey was pointless. I never had it.”
“你来了。我想你会来的……总有一天。但是你此行毫无意义。我没有拥有过它。”
“You lie!”】
“你撒谎！”
As Voldemort’s anger throbbed inside him, Harry’s scar threatened to burst withpain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain presentas the prisoners were pushed over gravel.
伏地魔的愤怒在他体内跳动，哈利的伤疤痛得似乎要炸裂了。他把思维猛拉回来，努力维持着不走神，犯人们正被推行在碎石路上。
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As Harryspoke, his scar burned worse than ever, and for a few seconds he looked down,not upon the wandmaker, but on another man who was just as old, just as thin,but laughing scornfully.
当哈利说话的时候，他的伤疤前所未有地灼痛起来，有那么几秒钟，他低头看到的不是奥利凡德，而是另一个人，同样苍老，同样瘦削，但却在轻蔑地笑着。
【“Kill me, then.Voldemort, I welcome death! But my death will not bring you what you seek….There is so much you do not understand…”】
“杀了我吧，伏地魔，我很高兴去死！但是我的死不会带来你所寻找的东西……有很多东西你不明白……”
He feltVoldemort’s fury, but as Hermione screamed again he shut it out, returning tothe cellar and the horror of his own present.
他感到了伏地魔的愤怒，但赫敏再次尖叫起来，他不再观看那一幕，回到了地牢和他自己当前的恐怖处境中。
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And she pushed back her sleeve and touched her forefinger to the Dark Mark.
她捋起袖子，食指按向了黑魔标记。
At once,Harry’s scar felt as though it had split open again. His true surroundingsvanished: He was Voldemort, and the skeletal wizard before him was laughing toothlessly at him; he was enraged at the summons he felt – he had warned them,he had told them to summon him for nothing less than Potter. If they weremistaken…
顿时，哈利的伤疤好像再次被撕裂。他周围真实的景物消失了，他是伏地魔，骨瘦如柴的老巫师对他张口大笑，满嘴无牙。他感觉到了召唤，十分恼怒——他警告过他们，至少要抓到波特才能召唤他，如果他们弄错了……
【“Kill me, then!”demanded the old man. “You will not win, you cannot win! That wand will never,ever be yours – ”
“杀了我吧！”那个老人要求道，“你不会赢的，你不可能赢的！那根魔杖绝不会，永远不会是你的——”
And Voldemort’s fury broke: A burst of green light filled the prison room and the frail old body was lifted from its hard bed and then fell back, lifeless, and Voldemort returned to the window, his wrath barely controllable…. They wouldsuffer his retribution if they had no good reason for calling him back….】
伏地魔的愤怒爆发了，突然一道绿光充满了牢房，老头虚弱的身体从硬板床上被抛向空中，然后落了下来，毫无生气。伏地魔返回到窗前，他的愤怒几乎不可控制……如果他们没有充足的理由就把他召唤回去，将统统遭受惩罚……
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Chapter Twenty-four The Wandmaker
第二十四章 魔杖制作人
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“So, it isn’t necessary to kill theprevious owner to take the possession of a wand?” asked Harry.
“那么，要真正拥有一根魔杖，并不一定要杀死它的前任主人，对吗？”哈利问道。
Ollivander swallowed.
奥利凡德咽了咽口水。
“Necessary? No, I should not say that it isnecessary to kill.”
“一定？不，我认为不一定要杀人。”
“There are legends, though,” saidHarry, and as his heart rate quickened, the pain in his scar became moreintense; he was sure that Voldemort has decided to put his idea into action.“Legends about a wand – or wands – that have been passed from hand to hand bymurder.”
“但是，有一些传说，”哈利说，心跳加快的同时，伤疤疼得越加厉害。他相信伏地魔已经决定把想法付诸行动。“传说有一根魔杖——或一些魔杖——是通过谋杀而转手的。”
Ollivanderturned pale. Against the snowy pillow he was light gray, and his eyes wereenormous, bloodshot, and bulging with what looked like fear.
奥利凡德脸色一变。在雪白的枕头上，他面如纸灰，眼睛特别大，充血而凸出，似乎充满恐惧。
“Only one wand, I think,” he whispered.
“只有一根魔杖，我想。”他低声说。
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“The Dark Lord nolonger seeks the Elder Wand only for your destruction, Mr. Potter. He isdetermined to possess it because he believes it will make him truly invulnerable.”
“黑魔头寻找老魔杖不再仅仅是为了打败你，波特先生。他决心要拥有它，因为他相信老魔杖会让他变得无懈可击。”
“And will it?”
“会吗？”
“The owner of theElder Wand must always fear attack,” said Ollivander, “but the idea of the DarkLord in possession of the Deathstick is, I must admit… formidable.”
“老魔杖的拥有者总是担心受到攻击，”奥利凡德说，“但是黑魔头拥有死亡棒的这个想法，我必须承认……是令人生畏的。”
Harry was suddenly reminded of how unsure, when they first met, of how much heliked Ollivander. Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort,the idea of the Dark Wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall himas much as it repulsed him.
哈利突然想起他们第一次见面时，他就不能确定自己是不是喜欢奥利凡德。现在，即使在被伏地魔拷问和关押之后，这老头儿对于黑巫师拥有老魔杖的想法，似乎仍是既反感又着迷。
“You – you reallythink this wand exists, then, Mr. Ollivander?” asked Hermione.
“您——您真的认为这根魔杖是存在的吗？奥利凡德先生？”赫敏问道。
“Oh yes,” saidOllivander. “Yes, it is perfectly possible to trace the wand’s course throughhistory. There are gaps, of, course, and long ones, where it vanishes fromview, temporarily lost or hidden; but always it resurfaces. It has certainidentifying characteristics that those who are learned in wandlore recognize.There are written accounts, some of them obscure, that I and other wandmakershave made it our business to study. They have the ring of authenticity.”
“哦，是的，”奥利凡德说，“是的。在历史上完全有踪迹可寻。当然中间会有中断，很长时间的中断，它会从人们的视野里消失，暂时丢失或者隐藏起来，但总会重新出现。它有某些可识别的特征，研究过魔杖学的人会认得出来。有一些书面的记录，有的很隐晦，我和其他魔杖制作人专门研究过。那些记录有一定的真实性。”
“So you – you don’tthink it can be a fairy tale or a myth?” Hermione asked hopefully.
“那么您——您不认为它可能是一个传说，或是虚构的故事？”赫敏带着希望问。
“No,” said Ollivander. “Whether it needs to pass by murder, I do not know. Its history isbloody, but that may be simply due to the fact that it is such a desirableobject, and arouses such passions in wizards. Immensely powerful, dangerous inthe wrong hands, and an object of incredible fascination to all of us who studythe power of wands.”
“不。”奥利凡德说，“至于它是否需要靠谋杀来转手，我不知道。它的历史是血腥的，但那可能只因为它是一件如此令人觊觎的器物，在巫师间引起强烈的欲望。它无比强大，在不适当的人手中会很危险，而对于我们研究魔杖能力的人来说，它是一件有莫大诱惑力的器物。”
“Mr. Ollivander,”said Harry, “you told You-Know-Who that Gregorovitch had the Elder Wand, didn’tyou?”
“奥利凡德先生，”哈利说，“您告诉神秘人，老魔杖在格里戈维奇那里，是不是？”
Ollivanderturned, if possible, even paler. He looked ghostly as he gulped.
“Buthow – how do you –?”
奥利凡德的脸色变得——如果可能的话——更加灰白，看起来像鬼一样，他惊得噎住了。
“Never mind how I know it,” saidHarry, closing his eyes momentarily as his scar burned and he saw, for mereseconds, a vision of the main street in Hogsmeade, still dark, because it wasso much farther north. “You told You-Know-Who that Gregorovitch had the wand?”
“别管我是怎么知道的，”哈利说，他的伤疤灼痛起来，他稍稍闭了一下眼睛。仅仅几秒钟，他看到了霍格莫德大马路的景象，仍然是黑夜，因为它在很远的北方。“您告诉神秘人老魔杖在格里戈维奇那里，是吗？”
“It was a rumor,”whispered Ollivander. “A rumor, years and years ago, long before you were bornI believe Gregorovitch himself started it. You can see how good it would be forbusiness; that he was studying and duplicating the qualities of the Elder Wand!”
“那是一个谣传，”奥利凡德轻声说，“一个谣传，许多年前，早在你出生以前！我相信是格里戈维奇自己说出去的。你可以想见，如果传说他在研究和复制老魔杖的特性，这对他的生意多么有利啊。”
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“Gregorovitch had the Elder Wand a long time ago,” he said, “I saw You-Know-Who trying to findhim. When he tracked him down, he found that Gregorovitch didn’t have itanymore: It was stolen from him by Grindelwald. How Grindelwald found out thatGregorovitch had it, I don’t know – but if Gregorovitch was stupid enough tospread the rumor, it can’t have been that difficult.”
“格里戈维奇得到过老魔杖，在很久以前。”他说，“我看到神秘人在找他，可是找到之后，却发现魔杖已经不在格里戈维奇那里，被格林德沃偷走了。至于格林德沃是怎么知道格里戈维奇有老魔杖的，我就不清楚了——但如果格里戈维奇愚蠢得四处吹嘘，别人应该不会很难知道吧。”
Voldemort was at the gates of Hogwarts; Harry could see him standing there, andsee too the lamp bobbing in the pre-dawn, coming closer and closer.
伏地魔在霍格沃茨的大门口，哈利能看见他站在那里，也能看见灯光，在黎明前的空气中浮动，越来越近了。
“And Grindelwald used the Elder Wand to become powerful. And at the height of his power, whenDumbledore knew he was the only one who could stop him, he dueled Grindelwaldand beat him, and he took the Elder Wand.“
“格林德沃凭借老魔杖使自己变得强大起来。在他鼎盛的时候，邓布利多知道自己是惟一能够阻止他的人，就去和格林德沃决斗，并且战胜了他，拿走了老魔杖。”
“Dumbledore had the Elder Wand?” said Ron. “But then – where is it now?”
“邓布利多拥有过老魔杖？”罗恩问，“那么——它现在呢？”
“At Hogwarts,” said Harry, fighting toremain with them in the cliff-top garden.
“在霍格沃茨。”哈利说，努力控制着思维不离开悬崖顶上的花园，不离开他俩。
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Chapter Twenty-eight The Missing Mirror
第二十八章 丢失的镜子
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“I’d have looked after her, I told him so,I didn’t care about school, I’d have stayed home and done it.He told me I hadto finish my education and he’d take over from my mother. Bit of a comedown forMr. Brilliant, there’s no prizes for looking after your half-mad sister,stopping her blowing up the house every other day. But he did all right for afew weeks… till he came.“
“我对他说，我愿意照顾妹妹，我不在乎上学的事，我可以待在家里自学。他却说我必须完成学业，由他来接替我母亲。这对于精英先生来说是有点失落的。照顾一个半疯的妹妹，每隔一天就要阻止她把房子炸飞，这可没人给他发奖。不过最初几个星期他做得挺好……后来那个人来了。”
And now a positively dangerous look creptover Aberforth’s face.
这时，阿不福思脸上露出了一种十分危险的神情。
“Grindelwald. And at last, my brother hadan equal to talk to someone just as bright and talented he was. And lookingafter Ariana took a backseat then, while they were hatching all their plans fora new Wizarding order and looking for Hallows, and whatever else it was theywere so interested in. Grand plans for the benefit of all Wizardkind, and if one young girl neglected, what did that matter, when Albus was working for thegreater good?”
“格林德沃。终于，我哥哥有了个谈话的对手，有了个跟他一样聪明、有才华的人。照顾阿利安娜就成了第二位的了，他们整天都在酝酿建立新巫师秩序的计划，寻找圣器，做他们所有非常感兴趣的事情。为了宏伟的计划，为了整个巫师界的利益，一个小姑娘受到忽视又有什么关系？阿不思在为更伟大的利益工作呢！”
“But after a few weeks of it, I’d hadenough, I had. It was nearly time for me to go hack to Hogwarts, so I told ‘em,both of ‘em, face-to-face, like I am to you, now,” and Aberforth lookeddownward Harry, and it took a little imagination to see him as a teenager, wiryand angry, confronting his elder brother. “I told him, you’d better give it upnow. You can’t move her, she’s in no fit state, you can’t take her with you,wherever it is you’re planning to go, when you’re making your clever speeches,trying to whip yourselves up a following. He didn’t like that.” said Aberforth,and his eyes were briefly occluded by the fireflight on the lenses of hisglasses: They turned white and blind again. “Grindelwald didn’t like that at all. He got angry. He told me what a stupid little boy I was, trying to standin the way of him and my brilliant brother… Didn’t I understand, my poor sisterwouldn’t have to be hidden once they’d changed the world, and led the wizardsout of hiding, and taught the Muggles their place?”
“几个星期后，我受够了，真是受够了。那时我快要回霍格沃茨了，于是我告诉他们，告诉他们两个，面对面地，就像我现在对着你一样，”阿不福思低头看着哈利，不难想象他十几岁时的模样，精瘦结实，满腔怒火，勇敢地面对自己的哥哥。“我告诉他，你最好趁早放弃。你不能转移她，她的状态不行，你不能带她一起走，去你打算去的地方，发表你那些聪明的讲话，给自己煽动起一批追随者。他不爱听。”阿不福思说，火光照在他的镜片上，暂时遮住 了他的眼睛，镜片上又是白光一片，“格林德沃听了很不高兴，他生气了，说我是个愚蠢的小男孩，想当他和我那出色的哥哥的绊脚石……还说难道我不明白？一旦他们改变了世界，让巫师们不再躲躲藏藏，让麻瓜们安分守己，我那可怜的妹妹就再也不用东藏西藏了。”
“And there was anargument… and I pulled my wand, and he pulled out his, and I had the Cruciatus Curse used on me by my brother’s best friend – and Albus was trying to stophim, and then all three of us were dueling, and the flashing lights and thebangs set her off, she couldn’t stand it – ”
“我们争论起来……我抽出我的魔杖，他也抽出了他的，我中了钻心咒，是我哥哥最好的朋友下的手——阿不思试图阻止他。于是我们三人展开了决斗，一道道闪光和一声声巨响刺激了我妹妹，她无法承受——”
The colorwas draining from Aberforth’s face as though he had suffered a mortal wound.
阿不福思的脸上突然没了血色，仿佛受了致命的创伤
“ – and I think shewanted to help, but she didn’t really know what she was doing, and I don’t knowwhich of us did it, it could have been any of us – and she was dead.”
“——我猜她是想来帮忙，但她不清楚自己在做什么，我不知道究竟是我们中间谁干的，谁都有可能——她死了。”
His voice broke on the last word and he dropped down into the nearest chair.Hermione’s face was wet with tears, and Ron was almost as pale as Aberforth.Harry felt nothing but revulsion: He wished he had not heard it, wished hecould wash is mind clean of it.
说到最后一句，他声音哽咽了，扑通跌坐在最近的那张椅子上。赫敏满脸泪水，罗恩的脸色几乎和阿不福思的一样苍白。哈利只感到一阵难受：他希望没有听见，希望能把这件事从脑子里洗掉。
“I’m so… I’m sosorry,” Hermione whispered.
“我……我很抱歉。”赫敏小声说。
“Gone,” croakedAberforth. “Gone forever.”
“没了，”阿不福思哑着嗓子说，“永远没了。”
He wiped hisnose on hiss cuff and cleared his throat.
他用袖口擦擦鼻子，清了清嗓子。
“ ‘Course,Grindelwald scarpered. He had a bit of a track record already, back in his owncountry, and he didn’t want Ariana set to his account too. And Albus was free,wasn’t he? Free of the burden of his sister, free to become the greatest wizardof the – ”
“当然啦，格林德沃逃跑了。他在自己国内已经有了点前科，可不希望把阿利安娜的账也算在他头上。阿不思解脱了，不是吗？摆脱了妹妹这个负担，可以无牵无挂地去做最伟大的巫师——”
“He was never free,”said Harry.
“他从来没有解脱。”哈利说。
“I beg your pardon?”said Aberforth.
“你说什么？”阿不福思说。
“Never,” said Harry. “The night thatyour brother died, he drank a potion that drove him out of his mind. He started screaming, pleading with someone who wasn’t there. ‘Don’t hurt them, please…hurt me instead.’ ”
“从来没有，”哈利说，“你哥哥死去的那天夜里喝了一种毒药，变得精神错乱。他开始喊叫，向一个不在场的人发出恳求：”别伤害他们，求求你……冲我来吧。‘“
Ron andHermione were staring at Harry. He had never gone into details about what hadhappened on the island on the lake. The events that had taken place after heand Dumbledore had returned to Hogwarts had eclipsed it so thoroughly.
罗恩和赫敏都吃惊地看着哈利。他从来没有跟他们讲过在湖心小岛的具体细节。他和邓布利多回到霍格沃茨后发生的事情，使那一幕显得毫不重要了。
“He thought he was back there with youand Grindelwald, I know he did,” said Harry, remembering Dumbledore whispering,pleading.“He thought he was watching Grindelwald hurting you and Ariana… It was torture to him, if you’dseen him then, you wouldn’t say he was free.”
“他以为自己回到了从前，跟你和格林德沃在一起，我知道是这样。”哈利说，想起了邓布利多带着呜咽的恳求，“他以为自己正眼看着格林德沃伤害你和阿利安娜……这对他来说太痛苦了，如果当时你看见他，就不会说他已经解脱。”
Aberforth seemed lost in contemplation of his own knotted and veined hands.After a long pause he said. “How can you be sure, Potter, that my brotherwasn’t more interested in the greater good than in you? How can you be sure youaren’t dispensable, just like my little sister?”
阿不福思出神地盯着自己骨节突出、布满青筋的手。过了良久，他说：“波特，你怎么能够确定，我哥哥更感兴趣的不是更伟大的利益而是你呢？你怎么能够确定你不像我的小妹妹一样是可有可无的呢？”
A shard ofice seemed to pierce Harry’s heart.
似乎有锋利的冰碴刺中了哈利的心。
“I don’t believe it. Dumbledore lovedHarry,” said Hermione.
“我不相信。邓布利多是爱哈利的。”赫敏说。
“Why didn’t he tell him to hide, then?”shot back Aberforth. “Why didn’t he say to him, ‘Take care of yourself, here’show to survive’?”
“那他为什么不叫哈利躲藏起来？”阿不福思反驳道，“为什么不叫哈利好好地照顾自己，保全性命？”
“Because,” said Harry before Hermione couldanswer, “sometimes you’ve got to think about more than your own safety!Sometimes you’ve got to think about the greater good! This is war!”
“因为，”哈利抢在赫敏前面回答，“有时候你必须考虑比自身安全更多的东西！有时候你必须考虑更伟大的利益！这是战争！”
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ChapterThirty-three The Prince’s Tale
第三十三章 王子的故事
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Andnext, Snape was kneeling in Sirius’s old bedroom. Tears were dripping from theend of his hooked nose as he read the old letter from Lily. The second pagecarried only a few words:
接着，斯内普跪在小天狼星的旧卧室里。他读着莉莉写的那封旧信，泪水从鹰钩鼻的鼻尖流淌下来。信的第二页只有几句话：
could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her mind’s going, personally!
会和盖勒特·格林德沃交朋友。我个人认为，她脑子有点糊涂了！
Lotsof love, Lily
无限爱意莉莉
Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked itinside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, sothat he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showingJames and Harry back onto the floor, under the chest of drawers…
斯内普拿起这页留有莉莉签名和爱意的信纸，塞进了长袍里。然后他把手里的照片一撕两半，留下莉莉欢笑的一半，把詹姆和哈利的一半扔在地上的五斗橱下……
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Chapter Thirty-five King’s Cross
第三十五章 国王十字车站
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“The Deathly Hallows,” he said, and he wasglad to see that the words wiped the smile from Dumbledore’s face.
“死亡圣器。”说完，他很高兴地看到邓布利多脸上的笑容消失了。
“Ah, yes,” he said. He even looked a littleworried.
“啊，是的。”他说，甚至显得有点儿苦恼。
“Well?”
“怎么了？”
For the first time since Harry had metDumbledore, he looked less than an old man, much less. He looked fleetingly likea small boy caught in wrongdoing.
这是哈利遇见邓布利多后第一次看到他不像个老人，很不像。在那一瞬间，他就像个做坏事被人抓住的小男孩。
“Can you forgive me?” he said. “Can youforgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? Harry, I only feared thatyou would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes.I crave your pardon, Harry. I have known, for some time now, that you are thebetter man.”
“你能原谅我吗？”他说，“你能原谅我不信任你？不告诉你？哈利，我只是担心你会像我一样失败。我只是害怕你会跟我犯同样的错误。我恳求你的原谅，哈利。一段时间以来，我已经知道你比我优秀。”
“What are you talking about?” asked Harry,startled by Dumbledore’s tone, by the sudden tears in his eyes.
“你在说些什么呀？”哈利问，邓布利多的语气，还有他眼里突然涌出的泪水都令他吃惊。
“The Hallows, the Hallows,” murmuredDumbledore. “A desperate man’s dream!”
“圣器，圣器，”邓布利多喃喃地说，“一个绝望者的梦啊！”
“But they’re real!”
“可它们是真的！”
“Real, and dangerous, and a lure forfools,” said Dumbledore. “And I was such a fool. But you know, don’t you? Ihave no secrets from you anymore. You know.”
“真的，而且危险，是愚蠢者的诱饵，”邓布利多说，“我就是这样一个愚蠢者。但你已经知道了，是不是？我不再有秘密瞒着你。你知道了。”
“What do I know?”
“知道什么？”
Dumbledoreturned his whole body to face Harry, and tears still sparkled in thebrilliantly blue eyes.
邓布利多把整个身体转过来对着哈利，明亮的蓝眼睛里仍然泪光闪烁。
“Master of death,Harry, master of Death! Was I better, ultimately, than Voldemort?”
“死亡的征服者，哈利，死神的主人！最终，我是不是比伏地魔好？”
“Of course youwere,” said Harry. “Of course – how can you ask that? You never killed if youcould avoid it!”
“那当然啦，”哈利说，“当然——你怎么会这么问？你只要能够避免就从不杀生！”
“True, true,” saidDumbledore, and he was like a child seeking reassurance. “Yet I too sought away to conquer death, Harry.”
“对，对，”邓布利多说，就像个寻求安慰的孩子，“可是我也曾寻找过征服死亡的办法，哈利。”
“Not the way hedid,” said Harry. After all his anger at Dumbledore, how odd it was to sithere, beneath the high, vaulted ceiling, and defend Dumbledore from himself.“Hallows, not Horcruxes.”
“跟他不一样。”哈利说。他曾对邓布利多满怀怨恨，此刻却坐在这里，坐在高高的穹顶下，针对邓布利多的自责替他辩护，多么奇怪的事情啊。“圣器，不是魂器。”
“Hallows,” murmuredDumbledore, “not Horcruxes. Precisely.”
“圣器，”邓布利多喃喃地说，“不是魂器。一点不错。”
There was a pause. The creature behind them whimpered, but Harry no longerlooked around.
一阵静默。他们身后的那个生命还在呜咽，但哈利没再扭头去看它。
“Grindelwald was looking for them too?” he asked.
“格林德沃也曾寻找过它们？”他问。
Dumbledoreclosed his eyes for a moment and nodded.
邓布利多闭了闭眼睛，点点头。
“It was the thing,above all, that drew us together,” he said quietly. “Two clever, arrogant boyswith a shared obsession. He wanted to come to Godric’s Hollow, as I am sure youhave guessed, because of the grave of Ignotus Peverell. He wanted to explorethe place the third brother had died.”
“首先就是这件事使我们走到一起的，”他轻声说，“两个聪明、狂妄的少年，怀着同样的痴迷。我相信你已经猜到了，他是为了伊格诺图斯。佩弗利尔地坟墓才到戈德里克山谷去的。他想调查第三个兄弟死去的地方。”
“So it’s true?” asked Harry. “All ofit? The Peverell brothers – ”
“那么，这是真的？”哈利问，“所有这些？佩弗利尔兄弟——？”
“ – were the threebrothers of the tale,” said Dumbledore, nodding. “Oh yes, I think so. Whetherthey met Death on a lonely road… I think it more likely that the Peverellbrothers were simply gifted, dangerous wizards who succeeded in creating thosepowerful objects. The story of them being Death’s own Hallows seems to me thesort of legend that might have sprung up around such creations.”
“——就是故事里的三兄弟，”邓布利多点点头说，“没错，我想是的。至于他们是不是在偏僻的小路上遭遇了死神……我认为更有可能的是佩弗利尔兄弟都是很强大、很危险的巫师、成功地制造了这些威力无比的器物。在我看来，死亡圣器的故事像是围绕这些发明而出现的某种传说。”
“The Cloak, as youknow now, traveled down through the ages, father to son, mother to daughter,right down to Ignotus’s last living descendant, who was born, as Ignotus was,in the village of Godric’s Hollow.”
“隐形衣，你现在已经知道了，很久以来代代相传，父亲传给儿子，母亲传给女儿，一直传到伊格诺图斯的最后一位活着的后裔，他和伊格诺图斯一样，出生在戈德里克山谷的村庄里。”
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“But I don’t despiseyou – ”
“我没有轻视你——”
“Then you should,”said Dumbledore. He drew a deep breath. “You know the secret of my sister’s illhealth, what those Muggles did, what she became. You know how my poor fathersought revenge, and paid the price, died In Azkaban. You know how my mother gaveup her own life to care for Ariana.”
“那你应该轻视我。”邓布利多说，他深深吸了口气，“你知道我妹妹身体不好的秘密，知道那些麻瓜做的事情，知道她变成了什么样子。你知道我可怜的父亲为了给她报仇，结果付出了代价，惨死在阿兹卡班。你知道我母亲为了照顾阿利安娜舍弃了自己的生命。”
“I resented it,Harry.”
“当时我怨恨这一切，哈利。”
Dumbledorestated it baldly, coldly. He was looking now over the top of Harry’s head, intothe distance.
邓布利多的讲述坦率而冷漠。此刻他的目光掠过哈利的头顶，望向远处。
“I was gifted, I wasbrilliant. I wanted to escape. I wanted to shine. I wanted glory.”
“我有天分，我很优秀。我想逃走。我想出类拔萃。我想光彩夺目。”
“Do not misunderstand me,” he said,and pain crossed the face so that he looked ancient again. “I loved them, Iloved my parents, I loved my brother and my sister, but I was selfish, Harry,more selfish than you, who are a remarkably selfless person, could possiblyimagine.”
“不要误会，”他说，痛苦浮现在他的脸上，使他又显得苍老了，“我爱他们，我爱我的父母，我爱你的弟弟妹妹，但我是自私的，哈利，比你这个非常无私的人可以想象的还要自私。”
“So that, when mymother died, and I was left the responsibility of a damaged sister and awayward brother, I returned to my village in anger and bitterness. Trapped andwasted, I thought! And then of course, he came….”
“因此，母亲去世后，我要负责照顾一个残疾的妹妹和一个任性的弟弟，我满怀怨恨和痛苦地返回村庄。我认为自己被困住了，虚度光阴！后来，不用说，他来了……”
Dumbledorelooked directly into Harry’s eyes again.
邓布利多再次直视着哈利的眼睛。
“Grindelwald. Youcannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me. Muggles forced intosubservience. We wizards triumphant. Grindelwald and I, the glorious youngleaders of the revolution.”
“格林德沃。你无法想象他的思想是怎么吸引了我，激励了我。麻瓜被迫臣服，我们巫师扬眉吐气。格林德沃和我就是这场革命的光荣的年轻领袖。”
“Oh, I had a few scruples. I assuagedmy conscience with empty words. It would all be for the greater good, and anyharm done would be repaid a hundredfold in benefits for wizards. Did I know, inmy heart of hearts, what Gellert Grindelwald was? I think I did, but I closedmy eyes. If the plans we were making came to fruition, all my dreams would cometrue.”
“哦，我有过一点顾虑，但我用空洞的话语安慰我的良知。一切都是为了更伟大的利益，所造成的任何伤害都能给巫师界带来一百倍的好处。我内心深处是否知道盖勒特。格林德沃是怎样一个人呢？我想我是知道的，但我睁只眼闭只眼。只要我们的计划能够实现，我所有的梦想都会成真。”
“And at the heart ofour schemes, the Deathly Hallows! How they fascinated him, how they fascinatedboth of us! The unbeatable wand, the weapon that would lead us to power! TheResurrection Stone – to him, though I pretended not to know it, it meant anarmy of Inferi! To me, I confess, it meant the return of my parents, and thelifting of all responsibility from my shoulders.”
“而我们计划的核心，就是死亡圣器！它们令他多么痴迷，令我们两个人多么痴迷啊！永不会输的魔杖，能使我们获得权力的武器！复活石——对他来说意味着阴尸的大军，但我假装并不知道！对我来说，我承认，它意味着我父母的起死回生，减轻我肩负的所有责任。”
“And the Cloak…somehow, we never discussed the Cloak much, Harry. Both of us could concealourselves well enough without the Cloak, the true magic of which, of course, isthat it can be used to protect and shield others as well as its owner. Ithought that, if we ever found it, it might be useful in hiding Ariana, but ourinterest in the Cloak was mainly that it completed the trio, for the legendsaid that the man who had united all three objects would then be truly masterof death, which we took to mean ‘invincible.’”
“还有隐形衣……不知怎么，我们始终没怎么谈论隐形衣，哈利。我们俩不用隐形衣就能把自己隐藏得很好。当然啦，隐形衣的真正魔力在于它不仅可以保护和遮蔽主人，还可以用来保护和遮蔽别人。当时我想，如果我们能找到它，或许可以用它来隐藏阿利安娜，不过我们对隐形衣的兴趣仅仅因为它是三要素之一，根据传说，同时拥有三样东西的人便是死亡的真正征服者，我们理解这意思就是‘不可战胜’。”
“Invincible mastersof death, Grindelwald and Dumbledore! Two months of insanity, of cruel dreams,and neglect of the only two members of my family left to me.”
“不可战胜的死亡征服者，格林德沃和邓布利多！两个月如痴如醉，满脑子残酷的梦想，忽视了家里仅剩的两个需要我照顾的人。”
“And then… you knowwhat happened. Reality returned in the form of my rough, unlettered, andinfinitely more admirable brother. I did not want to hear the truths he shoutedat me. I did not want to hear that I could not set forth and seek Hallows witha fragile and unstable sister in tow.”
“后来……你知道发生了什么事。现实以我那位性格粗暴、没有文化，但却优秀得多的弟弟的面貌出现了。我不愿意听他冲我叫嚷的那些实话。我不想听说我被一个虚弱的、很不稳定的妹妹拖累着，不能前去寻找圣器。”
“The argument becamea fight. Grindelwald lost control. That which I had always sensed in him,though I pretended not to, now sprang into terrible being. And Ariana… afterall my mother’s care and caution… lay dead upon the floor.”
“争吵上升为决斗。格林德沃失去了控制。他性格里的那种东西——我其实一直有所感觉，却总是假装没发现的那种东西，此刻突然可怕地爆发出来。阿利安娜……在我母亲那么精心呵护和照料之后……倒在地上死了。”
Dumbledoregave a little gasp and began to cry in earnest. Harry reached out and was gladto find that he could touch him: He gripped his arm tightly and Dumbledoregradually regained control.
邓布利多轻轻吸了口气，开始动情地哭了起来。哈利伸出手，还好，他发现自己能碰到对方。他紧紧地抓住邓布利多的胳膊，老人慢慢地控制住了自己。
“Well, Grindelwald fled, as anyone butI could have predicted. He vanished, with his plans for seizing power, and hisschemes for Muggle torture, and his dreams of the Deathly Hallows, dreams inwhich I had encouraged him and helped him. He ran, while I was left to bury mysister, and learn to live with my guilt and my terrible grief, the price of myshame.”
“后来，格林德沃逃跑了，这是除了我谁都能料到的。他消失了，带着他争权夺利的计划，他虐待麻瓜的阴谋，还有他寻找死亡圣器的梦想，而我曾经在这些梦想上鼓励和帮助过他。他逃走了，我留下来埋葬我的妹妹，学着在负罪感和极度悲伤中打发日子，那是我耻辱的代价。”
“Years passed. Therewere rumors about him. They said he had procured a wand of immense power. I,meanwhile, was offered the post of Minister of Magic, not once, but severaltimes. Naturally, I refused. I had learned that I was not to be trusted withpower.”
“许多年过去了。我听到了一些关于他的传言。据说他弄到了一根威力无比的魔杖。那个时候，魔法部部长的职位摆在我的面前，不止一次，而是多次。我当然拒绝了。我已经知道不能把权力交给我。”
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“You were the best–”
“你是最好的——”
“– you are verykind, Harry. But while I busied myself with the training of young wizards,Grindelwald was raising an army. They say he feared me, and perhaps he did, butless, I think, than I feared him.”
“——你很善良，哈利。在我忙于培养年轻巫师的时候，格林德沃召集了一支军队。人们说他怕我，也许是吧，但我认为我更怕他。”
“Oh, not death,”said Dumbledore, in answer to Harry’s questioning look. “Not what he could doto me magically. I knew that we were evenly matched, perhaps that I was a shademore skillful. It was the truth I feared. You see, I never knew which of us, inthat last, horrific fight, had actually cast the curse that killed my sister.You may call me cowardly: You would be right, Harry. I dreaded beyond allthings the knowledge that it had been I who brought about her death, not merelythrough my arrogance and stupidity, but that I actually struck the blow thatsnuffed out her life.”
“哦，不是怕死，”邓布利多回答哈利询问的目光，“不是怕他用魔法对我的加害。我知道我们势均力敌，或许我还略胜一筹。我害怕的是真相。你明白吗，我一直不知道在那场可怕的混战中，究竟是谁发了那个杀死我妹妹的咒语。你大概会说我是懦夫，你是对的。哈利，我从心底里最害怕的是得知是我造成了她的死亡，不仅是由于我的狂傲和愚蠢，而且还是我朝她发出了那致命的一击。”
“I think he knew it,I think he knew what frightened me. I delayed meeting him until finally, itwould have been too shameful to resist any longer. People were dying and heseemed unstoppable, and I had to do what I could.”
“我想他是知道的，我想他知道我害怕什么。我拖延着不见他，直到最后，我再不露面就太可耻了。人们在惨死，他似乎不可阻挡，我必须尽我的力量。”
“Well, you know what happened next. Iwon the duel. I won the wand.”
“唉，后来的事情你都知道了。决斗我胜利了。我赢得了那根魔杖。”
Anothersilence. Harry did not ask whether Dumbledore had ever found out who struckAriana dead. He did not want to know, and even less did he want Dumbledore tohave to tell him. At last he knew what Dumbledore would have seen when helooked in the mirror of Erised, and why Dumbledore had been so understanding ofthe fascination it had exercised over Harry.
又是沉默。哈利没有问邓布利多是否弄清是谁击毙了阿利安娜。他不希望知道，更不希望邓布利多不得不告诉他。他终于知道了邓布利多对面厄里斯魔镜时会看见什么，知道了邓布利多为什么那样理解魔镜对哈利的吸引力。
They sat insilence for a long time, and the whipmerings of the creature behind them barelydisturbed Harry anymore.
他们默默地坐了很久，身后那个生命的呜咽声几乎不再使哈利分神了。
At last hesaid, “Grindelwald tried to stop Voldemort going after the wand. He lied, youknow, pretended he had never had it.”
最后，哈利说：“格林德沃试图阻止伏地魔追寻那根魔杖。他撒谎了，你知道，谎称他从没得到过它。”
Dumbledore nodded, looking down at his lap, tears still glittering on thecrooked nose.
邓布利多点点头，垂眼望着膝头，泪水仍然在他的弯鼻子上闪闪发亮。
“They say he showed remorse in later years, alone in his cell at Nurmengard. I hope that is true. Iwould like to think that he did feel the horror and shame of what he had done.Perhaps that lie to Voldemort was his attempt to make amends… to prevent Voldemortfrom taking the Hallow…”
“听说他晚年独自被关在纽蒙迦德牢房里时流露出了悔恨。我希望这是真的。我希望他能感受到他的所作所为是多么恐怖和可耻。也许，他对伏地魔撒谎就是想弥补……想阻止伏地魔拿到圣器……”
“…or maybe frombreaking into your tomb?” suggested Harry, andDumbledore dabbed his eyes.
“……或者不让他闯进你的坟墓？”哈利插言道，邓布利多擦了擦眼睛。
Afteranother short pause Harry said, “You tried to use the Resurrection Stone.”
又是短暂的沉默，然后哈利说：“你试着用过复活石？”
Dumbledore nodded.
邓布利多点了点头。
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