邓布利多及相关原文摘录（《HP》7）③
邓布利多及其相关，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，除了邓布利多本人以外，关于凤凰福克斯、阿不福思等与他重要相关的角色也会摘录进来。
博主有强迫症，侧面描写、被他人在对话间提及、被他人在回忆中想到等所有出现“邓布利多”的部分都会收录进来。
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，所以体量可能会非常冗长，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。
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Harry bent down, picked up a few of the pieces of paper, and examined them. He recognizedone as part of an old edition of A History of Magic, by Bathilda Bagshot, andanother as belonging to a motorcycle maintenance manual. The third washandwritten and crumpled. He smoothed it out.
哈利弯下腰，捡起几张纸看了看，认出有一张是巴希达·巴沙特所著《魔法史》的老版本散页，还有一张是摩托车维修手册里的;第三张是手写的字条，揉皱了，他把它抹平来看。
Dear Padfoot,
亲爱的大脚板：
Thank you,thank you, for Harry’s birthday present! It was his favorite by far. One yearold and already zooming along on a toy broomstick, he looked so pleased withhimself, I’m enclosing a picture so you can see. You know it only rises abouttwo feet off the ground, but he nearly killed the cat and he smashed a horriblevase Petunia sent me for Christmas (no complaints there). Of course, Jamesthought it was so funny, says he’s going to be a great Quidditch player, butwe’ve had to pack away all the ornaments and make sure we don’t take our eyesoff him when he gets going.
谢谢你，谢谢你送给哈利的生日礼物！这是他最喜欢的玩具了。才一岁就已经能骑着玩具扫帚飞来飞去，他看上去好开心哪。我附上一张照片给你看看。你知道小扫帚只能离地两英尺，但哈利差点撞死了小猫，还差点打碎了一只难看的花瓶，那是佩妮送给我的圣诞礼物（不是抱怨）。当然，詹姆觉得非常好玩，说这孩子会成为下一个魁地奇明星，但我们不得不把所有的装饰品都收起来，并且在他飞的时候一直看着他。
We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda, who has always beensweet to us and who dotes on Harry. We were so sorry you couldn’t come, but theOrder’s got to come first, and Harry’s not old enough to know it’s his birthdayanyway! James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show itbut I can tell — also, Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak, sono chance of little excursions. If you could visit, it would cheer him up somuch. Wormy was here last weekend, I thought he seemed down, but that wasprobably the news about the McKinnons; I cried all evening when I heard.我们搞了一个很安静的生日茶会，只有老巴希达在场，她一直对我们很好，也特别宠爱哈利。很遗憾你不能来，但凤凰社是第一位的，再说哈利这么小也不懂过生日!关在这里詹姆有些憋闷，他尽量不表现出来，可是我看得出——隐形衣还在邓布利多那里，所以没有机会出去。如果你能来，他会多么高兴埃小虫上周末来过了，我觉得他情绪低落，但也许是因为麦金农夫妇的消息吧。我听到后也哭了一夜。
Bathildadrops in most days, she’s a fascinating old thing with the most amazingstories about Dumbledore, I’m not sure he’d be pleased if he knew! I don’tknow how much to believe, actually, becauseit seems incredible that Dumbledore
巴希达经常过来，她是个有趣的老太太，讲了好些邓布利多的故事，真是想象不到。我不知道他本人听到会不会高兴！说实在的，我不知道该相信多少，很难相信邓布利多
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They had hada cat . . . perhaps it had perished, like his parents, at Godric’s Hollow . . .or else fled when there was nobody left to feed it. . . . Sirius had bought himhis first broomstick. . . . His parents had known Bathilda Bagshot; hadDumbledore introduced them? Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak . . .There was something funny there. . . .
他们有一只猫……它也许像父母一样，死在戈德里克山谷……也可能因为没人喂养而离开了……小天狼星给他买了第一把飞天扫帚……他父母认识巴希达·巴沙特，是邓布利多介绍的吗？隐形衣还在邓布利多那里……这儿有点蹊跷……
Harry paused, pondering his mother’s words. Why had Dumbledore taken James’sInvisibility Cloak? Harry distinctly remembered his headmaster telling himyears before, “I don’t need a cloak tobecome invisible.” Perhaps some less gifted Order member had needed itsassistance, and Dumbledore had acted as carrier? Harry passed on. . . .
哈利停下来，琢磨着母亲的话。邓布利多为什么拿走詹姆的隐形衣呢？哈利清楚地记得校长多年前对他说过：“我不用隐形衣就能隐身。”也许某个法术较弱的凤凰社成员需要用它，邓布利多帮着借一下？哈利又往下读……
Wormy washere . . . Pettigrew, the traitor, had seemed “down,” had he? Was he aware thathe was seeing James and Lily alive for the last time?
小虫来过……小矮星，那个叛徒，显得“情绪低落”？他是否知道这是最后一次见到詹姆和莉莉？
And finallyBathilda again, who told incrediblestories about Dumbledore. It seems incredible that Dumbledore —
最后又是巴希达，讲了关于邓布利多的惊人故事：很难相信邓布利多——
That Dumbledore what? But there wereany number of things that would seem incredible about Dumbledore; that he hadonce received bottom marks in a Transfiguration test, for instance, or hadtaken up goat-charming like Aberforth. . . .
很难相信邓布利多什么呢？可是有许多关于邓布利多的事情都会令人难以相信：比如，他有一次在变形课上得了最低分，还有像阿不福思一样对山羊念咒……
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After another quarter of an hour, however, he was forced to conclude that the rest ofhis mother’s letter was gone. Had it simply been lost in the sixteen years thathad elapsed since it had been written, or had it been taken by whoever hadsearched the room? Harry read the first sheet again, this time looking forclues as to what might have made the second sheet valuable. His toy broomstick couldhardly be considered interesting to the Death Eaters. . . . The only potentially useful thing he could see here was possible information on Dumbledore. It seems incredible that Dumbledore — what?
又过了一刻钟，他不得不断定母亲这封信的后面部分不在了。它是在十六年中遗失的，还是被搜屋子的人拿走的呢？哈利又读了读第一页，这次仔细寻找着能使第二页有价格的线索。他的玩具扫帚不大会引起食死徒的兴趣……惟一可能有用的就是关于邓布利多的内容，很难相信邓布利多——什么呢？
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“Well then,”saidHarry, keen to discuss his theory, “what about information on Dumbledore? Thesecond page of this letter, for instance. You know this Bathilda my mummentions, you know who she is?”
“那么，”哈利急于讨论他的推想，“关于邓布利多的消息呢？比如这封信的第二页，我妈妈提到的这个巴希达，你知道她是谁吗？”
“Who?”
“谁？”
“Bathilda Bagshot, the author of —”
“巴希达·巴沙特，写过——”
“A History of Magic,” said Hermione,looking interested. “So your parents knew her? She was an incredible magicalhistorian.”
“《魔法史》，”赫敏说，看上去来了兴趣，“你爸爸妈妈认识她？她是一位了不起的魔法史专家。”
“And she’s stillalive,” said Harry, “and she lives in Godric’s Hollow, Ron’s AuntieMuriel was talking about her at the wedding. She knew Dumbledore’s family too.Be pretty interesting to talk to, wouldn’t she?”
“她还活着，”哈利说，“住在戈德里克山谷。罗恩的穆丽尔姨婆在婚礼上讲到过她，她还认识邓布利多一家，跟她聊聊会很有意思，是不是？”
There was alittle too much understanding in the smile Hermione gave him for Harry’s liking.He took back the letter and the photograph and tucked them inside the poucharound his neck, so as not to have to look at her and give himself away.
赫敏的笑容中有太多心照不宣的意味。哈利觉得不大自在。他收回信纸和照片，塞进挂在脖子上的袋子里，避免与她对视，泄露自己的心思。
“I understand why you’d love to talkto her about your mum and dad, and Dumbledore too,” said Hermione. “But thatwouldn’t really help us in our search for the Horcruxes, would it?” Harry didnot answer, and she rushed on, “Harry, I know you really want to go to Godric’sHollow, but I’m scared, I’m scared at how easily those Death Eaters found usyesterday. It just makes me feel more than ever that we ought to avoid theplace where your parents are buried, I’m sure they’d be expecting you to visitit.”
“我明白你为什么想跟她聊聊你爸爸妈妈，还有邓布利多，”赫敏说，“可这对我们寻找魂器没有多大帮助，是不是?”哈利没有回答，她一口气说下去，“哈利，我知道你真的想去戈德里克山谷，可我害怕……昨天食死徒那么容易就发现我们，我很害怕。这让我更加觉得应该避开你父母长眠的地方，我相信他们会猜到你要去的。”
“It’s not justthat,” Harry said, still avoiding looking at her. “Muriel said stuff aboutDumbledore at the wedding. I want to know the truth. . . .”
“不光是那样，”哈利说，仍然不敢看她，“穆丽尔在婚礼上提到了邓布利多的一些事，我想知道真相……”
He toldHermione everything that Muriel had told him. When he had finished, Hermionesaid, “Of course, I can see why that’s upset you, Harry —”
他把穆丽尔讲的事全部告诉赫敏，赫敏听完后说：“当然，我能理解这为什么让你心烦意乱，哈利——”
“I’m not upset,” helied, “I’d just like to know whether or not it’s true or —”
“——我没有心烦意乱，”他撒了个谎，“只不过想知道是真是假——”
“Harry, do youreally think you’ll get the truth from a malicious old woman like Muriel, orfrom Rita Skeeter? How can you believe them? You knew Dumbledore!”
“哈利，你真以为能从穆丽尔这样恶毒的老太婆和丽塔·斯基特那里得到真相吗？你怎么能相信她们呢？你了解邓布利多！”
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“But . . . youcouldn’t Apparate in and out of that cave,” said Harry, “otherwise Dumbledore—”
“可是……你没法通过幻影显形进出那个岩洞，”哈利说，“不然邓布利多——”
“Elf magic isn’tlike wizard’s magic, is it?” said Ron. “I mean, they can Apparate andDisapparate in and out of Hogwarts when we can’t.”
“小精灵的魔法与巫师的魔法不同，是不是？”罗恩说，“我是说，他们可以在霍格沃茨幻影显形或移形，而我们不能。”
There wassilence as Harry digested this. How could Voldemort have made such a mistake?But even as he thought this, Hermione spoke, and her voice was icy.
一阵静默，哈利回味着这句话。伏地魔怎么会犯这样的错误？正当他想到这里时，赫敏说话了，声音冰冷。
“Of course, Voldemort would haveconsidered the ways of houseelves far beneath his notice, just like all thepurebloods who treat them like animals. . . . It would never have occurred tohim that they might have magic that he didn’t.”
“当然啦，伏地魔对家养小精灵的行为是不屑一顾的，就像所有把小精灵当畜牲的纯种巫师那样……他永远不会想到小精灵也许具备他所没有的魔法。”
“The house-elf ’shighest law is his Master’s bidding,” intoned Kreacher. “Kreacher was told tocome home, so Kreacher came home. . . .”
“家养小精灵的最高法律就是主人的命令，”克利切唱歌般地说，“主人叫克利切回家，克利切就回家了……”
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“Sirius was horribleto Kreacher, Harry, and it’s no good looking like that, you know it’s true.Kreacher had been alone for a long time when Sirius came to live here, and hewas probably starving for a bit of affection. I’m sure ‘Miss Cissy’ and ‘MissBella’ were perfectly lovely to Kreacher when he turned up, so he did them afavor and told them everything they wanted to know. I’ve said all along thatwizards would pay for how they treat house-elves. Well, Voldemort did . . . andso did Sirius.”
“小天狼星对克利切态度很恶劣，哈利。那样看着我也没有用，你知道这是事实。小天狼星住到这里来时，克利切已经独自生活了很长时间，他也许正渴望一点温情，我相信‘西茜小姐’和‘贝拉小姐’对克利切相当亲切，于是他便愿意帮忙，说出了她们想知道的一切。我一直说巫师要为他们对待家养小精灵的方式付出代价，看，伏地魔付出了代价……还有小天狼星。”
Harry had noretort. As he watched Kreacher sobbing on the floor, he remembered whatDumbledore had said to him, mere hours after Sirius’s death: I do not thinkSirius ever saw Kreacher as a being with feelings as acute as a human’s. . . .
哈利无言反驳，看着克利切躺在地上哭泣，他想起邓布利多在小天狼星刚刚去世几小时后说的话：我认为小天狼星从没把克利切看作是跟人类拥有同样敏感情绪的一种生物……
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Chapter Eleven The Bribe
第十一章 贿赂
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“Will you stop it!” she cried on the thirdevening of Kreacher’s absence, as all light was sucked from the drawing roomyet again.
“你别玩了行不行！”克利切离开后的第三个晚上，客厅的灯光又一次被吸走时，赫敏嚷道。
“Sorry, sorry!” said Ron, clicking the Deluminatorand restoring the lights. “I don’t know I’m doing it!”
“对不起，对不起！”罗恩咔哒一摁熄灯器，把灯点亮，“我没意识到自己在做什么！”
“Well, can’t you find something useful tooccupy yourself?”
“你不能找点有用的事做做吗？”
“What, like reading kids’ stories?”
“什么事？看童话书？”
“Dumbledore left me this book, Ron —”
“这本书是邓布利多留给我的，罗恩——”
“— and he left me the Deluminator,maybe I’m supposed to use it!”
“——他把熄灯器留给了我，也许我应该使用它！”
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Every nerve in his body seemed to tauten:He pulled out his wand, moved into the shadows beside the decapitated elfheads, and waited. The door opened: He saw a glimpse of the lamplit squareoutside, and a cloaked figure edged into the hall and closed the door behindit. The intruder took a step forward, and Moody’s voice asked, “Severus Snape?”Then the dust figure rose from the end of the hall and rushed him, raisingits dead hand.
哈利全身的每根神经都紧张起来，他拔出魔杖，躲进那些小精灵脑袋旁边的阴影里等待着。门开了，他瞥见外面路灯照亮的广场，一个穿斗篷的人影闪进门厅，关上了门。来人向前走了一步，穆迪的声音问道：“西弗勒斯·斯内普?”那个土灰色的身影从门厅尽头升起来向他扑去，举着枯槁的手。
“It was not I who killed you, Albus,” saida quiet voice.
“杀你的不是我，阿不思。”一个镇静的声音说道。
The jinx broke: The dust-figure explodedagain, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense graycloud it left behind.
恶咒解除了，土灰色的身影又一次爆炸了，灰尘弥漫，看不清来人。
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“And are theybothering to give an excuse for torturing Harry’s whereabouts out of people?”asked Hermione, an edge to her voice.
“他们为酷刑拷问哈利的下落找了什么借口吗?”赫敏问，声音有些尖锐。
“Well,” said Lupin.He hesitated, then pulled out a folded copy of the Daily Prophet.
“嗯，”卢平犹豫了一下，掏出了一张折叠的《预言家日报》。
“Here,” he said,pushing it across the table to Harry, “you’ll know sooner or later anyway.That’s their pretext for going after you.”
“看看吧，”他说着，把报纸从桌面推给哈利，“反正你迟早会知道的。这就是他们搜捕你的借口。”
Harrysmoothed out the paper. A huge photograph of his own face filled the frontpage. He read the headline over it:
哈利展开报纸，一张他的大照片占满了头版的篇幅。几个大字突出在照片上：
WANTED FOR QUESTIONING ABOUTTHE DEATH OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
通缉追查阿不思·邓布利多死因
Ron and Hermionegave roars of outrage, but Harry said nothing. He pushed the newspaper away; hedid not want to read any more: He knew what it would say. Nobody but those whohad been on top of the tower when Dumbledore died knew who had really killedhim and, as Rita Skeeter had already told the Wizarding world, Harry had beenseen running from the place moments after Dumbledore had fallen.
罗恩和赫敏气愤地叫了起来，但哈利没说话。他把报纸推到一边，不想再看。他知道里面会怎么说。除了当时在塔顶的人之外，没有人知道是谁杀死了邓布利多，而且丽塔·斯基特已经告诉魔法界，邓布利多坠楼后不久，便有人看到哈利逃离了现场。
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“And this dramaticchange in Ministry policy,” said Harry, “involves warning the Wizarding worldagainst me instead of Voldemort?”
魔法部政策的显著变化，”哈利说，“也包括让魔法世界警惕我而不是伏地魔吗？”
“That’s certainlypart of it,” said Lupin, “and it is a masterstroke. Now that Dumbledore isdead, you — the Boy Who Lived — were sure to be the symbol and rallying pointfor any resistance to Voldemort. But by suggesting that you had a hand inthe old hero’s death, Voldemort has not only set a price upon your head,but sown doubt and fear amongst many who would have defended you.
“这确实是其中的一部分，”卢平说，“这是一手绝招。邓布利多死后，你——大难不死的男孩——必然会成为反抗伏地魔的象征和号召。而通过暗示你与老英雄之死有干系，伏地魔不仅可以悬赏缉拿你，而且在许多本来可能维护你的人中间撒下了怀疑和恐惧的种子。”
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Lupinhesitated.
卢平迟疑一下。
“I’ll understand if you can’t confirmthis, Harry, but the Order is under the impression that Dumbledore left you amission.”
“如果你不能证实，我可以理解，哈利，但凤凰社的印象是邓布利多给你留下了一个使命。”
“He did,” Harryreplied, “and Ron and Hermione are in on it and they’re coming with me.”
“是的。”哈利答道：“罗恩和赫敏也知道，他们要跟我一起去。”
“Can you confide inme what the mission is?”
“能不能告诉我这使命是什么？”
Harry lookedinto the prematurely lined face, framed in thick but graying hair, and wishedthat he could return a different answer.
哈利望着那张过早刻上皱纹的脸庞，浓密但已花白的头发，希望自己能有别的回答。
“I can’t, Remus, I’msorry. If Dumbledore didn’t tell you I don’t think I can.”
“我不能，莱姆斯，对不起。如果邓布利多没有告诉你，我想我也不能说。”
“I thought you’d say that,” saidLupin, looking disappointed. “But I might still be of some use to you. You knowwhat I am and what I can do. I could come with you to provide protection. Therewould be no need to tell me exactly what you were up to.”
“我猜到你会这么说，”卢平显得有些失望，“但我仍然可以对你有些用处。你知道我的身份和能耐。我可以与你们同行，提供保护。不用对我说你们在干什么。”
Harryhesitated. It was a very tempting offer, though how they would be able to keeptheir mission secret from Lupin if he were with them all the time he could notimagine.
哈利犹豫着，这是个非常诱人的提议，虽然他想象不出，如果卢平整天跟着他们，怎么还能对他保密下去。
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Lupin gavean artificial smile that was more like a grimace, then said, “So . . . do youaccept my offer? Will three become four? I cannot believe that Dumbledore wouldhave disapproved, he appointed me your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher,after all. And I must tell you that I believe that we are facing magic many ofus have never encountered or imagined.”
卢平不自然地笑了笑，看上去像做了个鬼脸，又说：“那么——你们接受我的提议吗？三个人可以变成四个人吗？我不相信邓布利多会反对。毕竟，他曾任命我做你们的黑魔法防御术课的老师。我必须告诉你们，我相信此行要面对许多人从没见过的和想象不到的邪恶魔法。”
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“Don’tyou understand what I’ve done to my wife and my unborn child? I should neverhave married her, I’ve made her an outcast!”
“你不明白我对我妻子和未出生的孩子做了什么吗？我根本不该和她结婚，我把她变成了被人排斥的人！”
Lupin kickedaside the chair he had overturned.
卢平一脚踢开被他弄翻的椅子。
“You have only ever seen me amongstthe Order, or under Dumbledore’s protection at Hogwarts! You don’t know howmost of the Wizarding world sees creatures like me! When they know of myaffliction, they can barely talk to me! Don’t you see what I’ve done? Even herown family is disgusted by our marriage, what parents want their only daughterto marry a werewolf? And the child — the child —”
“你们看到我都是在凤凰社里，或者是在霍格沃茨，在邓布利多的庇护下!你们知道大多数巫师怎样看待我的同类!知道我的情况之后，他们几乎都不肯跟我说话!你们没有看见我所做过的一切吗?就连她的家人也排斥我们的婚姻，哪个父母愿意自己的独生女儿嫁给狼人呢?还有孩子——孩子——”
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“You shouldn’t havesaid that stuff to Lupin,” Ron told Harry.
“你不该对卢平说那样的话。”罗恩责备哈利说。
“He had it coming tohim,” said Harry. Broken images were racing each other through his mind: Siriusfalling through the veil; Dumbledore suspended, broken, in midair; a flash ofgreen light and his mother’s voice, begging for mercy . . .
“他自找的。”哈利说。破碎的画面在他脑海中快速：小天狼星穿过帷幔倒下；伤残的邓布利多悬在空中；一道绿光和他母亲哀求的声音……
“Parents,” said Harry, “shouldn’tleave their kids unless — unless they’ve got to.”
“身为父母，”哈利说，“不应该离开自己的孩子，除非——除非是迫不得已。”
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The silentkitchen seemed to hum with the shock of the recent scene and with Ron andHermione’s unspoken reproaches. The Daily Prophet Lupin had brought was stilllying on the table, Harry’s own face staring up at the ceiling from the front page.He walked over to it and sat down, opened the paper at random, and pretended toread. He could not take in the words; his mind was still too full of theencounter with Lupin.
寂静的厨房里似乎在嗡嗡作响，带着刚才那一幕的震动和罗恩、赫敏无言的谴责。卢平带来的《预言家日报》还搁在桌上，哈利的面孔在头版上呆望着天花板。他走过去坐下，随手翻开报纸，假装在读，可是读不进去，脑子里还满是和卢平冲突的场面。
He was surethat Ron and Hermione had resumed their silent communications on the other sideof the Prophet. He turned a page loudly, and Dumbledore’s name leapt out athim. It was a moment or two before he took in the meaning of the photograph,which showed a family group. Beneath the photograph were the words: The Dumbledore family, left to right:Albus; Percival, holding newborn Ariana; Kendra; and Aberforth.
他能肯定罗恩和赫敏在报纸的另一面又开始了无声的交流。他很响地翻动报纸，邓布利多的名字跳入了眼帘。他好一会儿才看明白那张照片，是一张全家合影。照片下面写着：邓布利多一家，左起：阿不思、珀西瓦尔(抱着刚出生的阿利安娜)、坎德拉和阿不福思。
Hisattention caught, Harry examined the picture more carefully. Dumbledore’s father, Percival, was agood-looking man with eyes that seemed to twinkle even in this faded oldphotograph. The baby, Ariana, was little longer than a loaf of bread and nomore distinctive-looking. The mother, Kendra, had jet-black hair pulled into ahigh bun. Her face had a carved quality about it. Harry thought of photos ofNative Americans he’d seen as he studied her dark eyes, high cheekbones, andstraight nose, formally composed above a high-necked silk gown.
这吸引了他的注意。哈利仔细盯着这张照片。邓布利多的父亲珀西瓦尔是个英俊的男子，一双眼睛在这张褪色的老照片上似乎仍闪着光芒。婴儿阿利安娜比一块面包大不了多少，也看不出更多的面部特征。母亲坎德拉乌黑的头发盘成一个高髻，五官有如刀刻一般。尽管她穿着高领的缎袍，但那黑眼睛、高颧骨和挺直的鼻梁令哈利联想到了印第安人。
Albus and Aberforth wore matching lacycollared jackets and had identical, shoulder-length hairstyles. Albus lookedseveral years older, but otherwise the two boys looked very alike, for this wasbefore Albus’s nose had been broken and before he started wearing glasses.
阿不思和阿不福思穿着一式的花边领短上衣，留着一式的披肩发。阿不思看上去大几岁，但其他方面两个男孩看上去非常相似，因为这是在邓布利多的鼻梁被打断和他开始戴眼镜之前。
The familylooked quite happy and normal, smiling serenely up out of the newspaper. BabyAriana’s arm waved vaguely out of her shawl. Harry looked above the picture andsaw the headline:
一家人看上去相当幸福美满，安详地在报纸上微笑。婴儿阿利安娜的胳膊在襁褓外模糊地挥舞。哈利在照片的上方看到了一行标题：
EXCLUSIVEEXTRACT FROM THE UPCOMING
独家摘录——即将出版的
BIOGRAPHY OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
邓布利多传记
by RitaSkeeter
丽塔·斯基特著
Thinking that it could hardly make him feel any worse than he already did, Harry beganto read:
哈利心想反正不可能让自己的情绪更糟了，便读了起来：
Proud and haughty, Kendra Dumbledore could not bear to remain in Mould-on-the-Woldafter her husband Percival’s well-publicized arrest and imprisonment inAzkaban. She therefore decided to uproot the family and relocate to Godric’sHollow, the village that was later to gain fame as the scene of HarryPotter’s strange escape from You-Know-Who.
坎德拉·邓布利多个性自尊而高傲，在丈夫珀西瓦尔被逮捕并关入阿兹卡班之事公之于众后，无法忍受继续居住在沃土原。于是她决定举家搬迁到戈德里克山谷，那个村子后来出了名，因为它就是哈利·波特奇迹般逃脱神秘人魔掌的地方。
Like Mould-on-the-Wold,Godric’s Hollow was home to a number of Wizarding families, but as Kendra knewnone of them, she would be spared the curiosity about her husband’s crime shehad faced in her former village. By repeatedly rebuffing the friendlyadvances of her new Wizarding neighbors, she soon ensured that her family wasleft well alone.
像沃土原一样，戈德里克山谷也聚居了许多巫师家庭，但坎德拉一户也不认识，所以不会像在原来村子里那样总有人对她丈夫的罪行感到好奇。她多次拒绝新邻居的友好表示，很快使自己一家与外界隔绝了。
“Slammed the door inmy face when I went around to welcome her with a batch of homemade CauldronCakes,” says Bathilda Bagshot. “The first year they were there I only ever sawthe two boys. Wouldn’t have known there was a daughter if I hadn’t been pickingPlangentines by moonlight the winter after they moved in, and saw Kendraleading Ariana out into the back garden. Walked her round the lawn once,keeping a firm grip on her, then took her back inside. Didn’t know what to makeof it.”
“我带了一批自己做的锅形蛋糕过去欢迎她，她当着我的面关上了门。”巴希达。巴沙特说，“他们搬来的第一年，我只见过两个男孩。要不是冬天里有一次，我在月光下摘悲啼果，看到坎德拉领着阿利安娜走进后花园，我根本不会知道她还有个女儿。她妈妈带她绕草坪走了一圈，一直紧紧抓着他，然后就领回屋里去了。搞不懂是怎么回事。”
It seems that Kendra thought the move to Godric’s Hollow was the perfect opportunityto hide Ariana once and for all, something she had probably been planning foryears. The timing was significant. Ariana was barely seven years old when shevanished from sight, and seven is the age by which most experts agree thatmagic will have revealed itself, if present. Nobody now alive remembers Arianaever demonstrating even the slightest sign of magical ability. It seems clear,therefore, that Kendra made a decision to hide her daughter’s existence ratherthan suffer the shame of admitting that she had produced a Squib.看样子坎德拉认为搬到戈德里克山谷是隐藏阿利安娜的良机，这件事她或许已经筹划了多年。时机很重要，阿利安娜消失时刚刚七岁，而许多专家认为七岁是魔法能力应该显露的年龄。没有一位在世的人记得阿利安娜显示过丝毫的魔法能力。由此可见，坎德拉决定隐瞒女儿的存在，而羞于承认她生了一个哑炮。
Moving awayfrom the friends and neighbors who knew Ariana would, of course, make imprisoningher all the easier. The tiny number of people who henceforth knew of Ariana’sexistence could be counted upon to keep the secret, including her two brothers,who deflected awkward questions with the answer their mother had taught them: “Mysister is too frail for school.”
当然，离开认识阿利安娜的朋友和邻居，囚禁她就容易得多了。此后知道阿利安娜存在的人屈指可数，都是能保守秘密的，其中包括她的两个哥哥，他们用母亲教的话挡住尴尬的问题：“我妹妹身体太弱，上不了学。”
Next week:Albus Dumbledore at Hogwarts — the Prizes and the Pretense.
下星期：阿不思·邓布利多在霍格沃茨——获奖与假象。
Harry hadbeen wrong: What he had read had indeed made him feel worse. He looked back atthe photograph of the apparently happy family. Was it true? How could he findout? He wanted to go to Godric’s Hollow, even if Bathilda was in no fit stateto talk to him; he wanted to visit the place where he and Dumbledore had both lost loved ones. He was in the process of lowering the newspaper, to ask Ron’sand Hermione’s opinions, when a deafening crack echoed around the kitchen.
哈利想错了：报上的内容实际上让他情绪更糟了。他看着照片上面那表面幸福的一家人。是真的吗？怎么才能知道？他想去戈德里克山谷，即使巴希达已经不能与他交谈，他也想去看看自己和邓布利多都曾经失去亲人的那个地方。他正在放下报纸问问罗恩和赫敏的想法，厨房里突然爆出一声震耳欲聋的巨响。
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Chapter Twelve Magic is Might
第十二章 魔法即强权
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Meanwhile, inside number twelve, Harry hadjust entered the hall. He had nearly lost his balance as he Apparated onto thetop step just outside the front door, and thought that the Death Eaters mighthave caught a glimpse of his momentarily exposed elbow. Shutting the front doorcarefully behind him, he pulled off the Invisibility Cloak, draped it over hisarm, and hurried along the gloomy hallway toward the door that led to thebasement, a stolen copy of the Daily Prophet clutched in his hand.
与此同时，在12号房中，哈利刚刚走进门厅。他刚才幻影显形到前门外台阶顶上时差点失去平稳，心想食死徒可能看到了他一时暴露在外的胳膊肘。他小心地关上前门，脱下隐形衣搭在手臂上，沿着昏暗的走廊匆匆朝通往地下室的门口走去，手中还捏着一份偷来的《预言家日报》。
The usual low whisper of “Severus Snape?”greeted him, the chill wind swept him, and his tongue rolled up for a moment.
还是那个低低的声音：“西弗勒斯。斯内普？”一阵阴风刮过，他的舌头卷缩了片刻。
“I didn’t kill you,” he said, once it hadunrolled, then held his breath as the dusty jinx-figure exploded. Hewaited until he was halfway down the stairs to the kitchen, out of earshot ofMrs. Black and clear of the dust cloud, before calling, “I’ve got news, and youwon’t like it.”
“我没有杀死你。”舌头一松开，他就说道，然后屏住呼吸，土灰色的身影爆炸了。他一直下到通往厨房的楼梯中部，远离了炸出的灰尘，布莱克夫人也听不见时，他才叫道：“有新闻，你们不喜欢的。”
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“ ‘Severus Snape, long-standing Potions master atHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was today appointed headmaster inthe most important of several staffing changes at the ancient school. Followingthe resignation of the previous Muggle Studies teacher, Alecto Carrow will takeover the post while her brother, Amycus, fills the position of Defense Againstthe Dark Arts professor.
“‘西弗勒斯。斯内普，霍格沃茨魔法学校的资深魔药课教师，今日被任命为校长，该决定系这所古老学校的几项人事变动中最重要的一项。原麻瓜研究课教师已经辞职，将由阿莱克托。卡罗接任，她的哥哥阿米库斯将出任黑魔法防御术课教师。’”
“ ‘I welcome the opportunity to upholdour finest Wizarding traditions and values —’ Like committing murder andcutting off people’s ears, I suppose! Snape, headmaster! Snape in Dumbledore’s study — Merlin’s pants!” she shrieked,making both Harry and Ron jump. She leapt up from the table and hurtled fromthe room, shouting as she went, “I’ll be back in a minute!”
“‘我很高兴有机会维护我们最优秀的魔法传统和价值观——’就是杀人和割耳朵吧，我想！斯内普，校长！斯内普坐在邓布利多的办公室里——梅林的裤子啊！”她尖声大叫，把哈利和罗恩都吓了一大跳。她从桌边蹦起来，冲出厨房，嘴里喊着：“我马上回来！”
“ ‘Merlin’s pants’?”repeated Ron, looking amused. “She must be upset.” He pulled the newspapertoward him and perused the article about Snape.
“‘梅林的裤子！’？”罗恩似乎觉得好笑，“她准是气糊涂了。”他把报纸拉到面前，细看关于斯内普的文章。
“The other teachers won’t stand forthis. McGonagall and Flitwick and Sproutall know the truth, they know how Dumbledore died. They won’t accept Snapeas headmaster. And who are these Carrows?”
“其他教师不会容忍的，麦格、弗立维和斯普劳特都知道真相，知道邓布利多是怎么死的。他们不会同意斯内普做校长的。卡罗兄妹是什么人？”
“Death Eaters,” saidHarry. “There are pictures of them inside. They were at the top of the towerwhen Snape killed Dumbledore, so it’s all friends together. And,” Harry went onbitterly, drawing up a chair, “I can’t see that the other teachers have got anychoice but to stay. If the Ministry and Voldemort are behind Snape it’ll be achoice between staying and teaching, or a nice few years in Azkaban — andthat’s if they’re lucky. I reckon they’ll stay to try and protect thestudents.”
“食死徒，”哈利说，“报纸里面有照片，斯内普杀死邓布利多时他们也在塔顶，所以都是狐朋狗党。而且，”哈利拉过一把椅子，激愤地说，“我看其他教师除了留下任教之外别无选择。如果魔法部和伏地魔都是斯内普的靠山，那么不是留下任教，就是到阿兹卡班蹲几年——这还算是运气好的。我估计他们会留下来设法保护学生。”
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She wascarrying a large, framed picture, which she now lowered to the floor beforeseizing her small, beaded bag from the kitchen sideboard. Opening it, sheproceeded to force the painting inside, and despite the fact that it was patentlytoo large to fit inside the tiny bag, within a few seconds it had vanished,like so much else, into the bag’s capacious depths
她抱来个大画框，放到地上，从厨房柜子里抓过她的串珠小包，打开来把画往里塞。虽然这画框明显太大，但几秒钟后它也像那么多东西一样，消失在小包宽敞无比的肚子里了。
“Phineas Nigellus,” Hermione explainedas she threw the bag onto the kitchen table with the usual sonorous, clankingcrash.
“菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯。”赫敏解释道，把小包扔在厨房桌子上，发出平常那种响亮沉重的撞击声。
“Sorry?” said Ron,but Harry understood. The painted image of Phineas Nigellus Black was able toflit between his portrait in Grimmauld Place and the one that hung in theheadmaster’s office at Hogwarts: the circular tower-top room where Snape was nodoubt sitting right now, in triumphant possession of Dumbledore’s collectionof delicate, silver magical instruments, the stone Pensieve, the Sorting Hatand, unless it had been moved elsewhere, the sword of Gryffindor.
“什么？”罗恩说，可是哈利懂了。菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯·布莱克的肖像能在格里莫广场和霍格沃茨校长办公室的两个画框间自由来去，斯内普现在肯定已坐在塔楼顶上那个圆形的房间，得意地占据了邓布利多那些精致的银色魔法仪器、石头冥想盆、分院帽，还有格兰芬多的宝剑——如果它未被转移的话。
“Snape could send Phineas Nigellus tolook inside this house for him,” Hermione explained to Ron as she resumed herseat. “But let him try it now, all Phineas Nigellus will be able to see is theinside of my handbag.”
“斯内普可以派菲尼亚斯。奈杰勒斯到这所房子里来打探情况。”赫敏向罗恩解释着，坐了下来，“现在让他打探去吧，菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯只能看到我手提包里的东西。”
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“Fine. I’ve justseen Voldemort murdering a woman. By now he’s probably killed her whole family.And he didn’t need to. It was Cedric all over again, they were just there. . ..”
“好吧，我刚才看到伏地魔杀死了一个女人。现在他可能已经杀死了她的全家。他不需要这么做，又像赛德里克那样，他们只是在那儿……”
“Harry, you aren’t supposedto let this happen anymore!” Hermione cried, her voice echoing through thebathroom. “Dumbledore wanted you to use Occlumency! He thought theconnection was dangerous — Voldemort can use it, Harry! What good is it towatch him kill and torture, how can it help?”
“哈利，你不应该再让这样的事发生！”赫敏嚷道，回音响彻卫生间，“邓布利多要你学会大脑封闭术！他认为这种联系是危险的——伏地魔可以利用它，哈利！看他杀人和折磨人有什么好处，有什么用呢？”
“Because it means Iknow what he’s doing,” said Harry.
“我能知道他在干什么。”哈利说。
“So you’re not evengoing to try to shut him out?”
“所以你根本不想努力断了它？”
“Hermione, I can’t. Youknow I’m lousy at Occlumency, I never got the hang of it.”
“赫敏，我做不到。你知道我大脑封闭术练得多差，一直找不到诀窍。”
“You never reallytried!” she said hotly. “I don’t get it, Harry — do you like having thisspecial connection or relationship or what — whatever —”
“你从来没有真正努力过！”她激烈地说，“我不明白，哈利——你是不是喜欢有这种特殊的联系，或感应，或——管它叫什么——”
She faltered under the look he gave her as he stood up.
看到他的目光，她嗫嚅了。哈利站了起来。
“Like it?” he saidquietly. “Would you like it?”
“喜欢？”他低声问，“你会喜欢吗？”
“I — no — I’m sorry,Harry, I didn’t mean —”
“我——不——对不起，哈利，我不是那个意思——”
“I hate it, I hatethe fact that he can get inside me, that I have to watch him when he’s mostdangerous. But I’m going to use it.”
“我讨厌它，我讨厌他闯进我的脑海，讨厌不得不在他最可怕的时候看到他，但是我要利用它。”
“Dumbledore —”
“邓布利多——”
“ForgetDumbledore. This is my choice, nobody else’s. I want to know why he’s after Gregorovitch.”
“别提邓布利多。这是我的选择，不是其他人的。我想知道他为什么要找格里戈维奇。”
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They joinedthe stream of witches and wizards moving toward the golden gates at the end ofthe hall, looking around as surreptitiously as possible, but there was no signof the distinctive figure of Dolores Umbridge. They passed through the gatesand into a smaller hall, where queues were forming in front of twenty goldengrilles housing as many lifts. They had barely joined the nearest one when avoice said, “Cattermole!”
他们汇入了男女巫师的人流，向大厅尽头的金色大门走去，一边尽可能不引人注意地扫视着四周，但没有见到多洛雷斯。乌姆里奇那特征鲜明的身影。他们穿过金色大门来到一个较小的厅里，看见人们在二十部电梯的金色栅栏门前面排队。他们刚刚排进最近的队伍中，就有一个声音说道：“卡特莫尔！”
They looked around: Harry’s stomach turned over. One of the Death Eaters whohad witnessed Dumbledore’s death was striding toward them. The Ministry workersbeside them fell silent, their eyes downcast; Harry could feel fear ripplingthrough them. The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at oddswith his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much goldthread. Someone in the crowd around the lifts called sycophantically, “Morning,Yaxley!” Yaxley ignored them.
他们回过头，哈利胃中一阵痉挛。邓布利多死时在场的一个食死徒迎面大步走来。旁边的魔法部人员都垂下眼睛，不做声了。哈利能感到恐惧正在他们中间弥漫。那人阴沉的、略显残暴的面孔与他那身镶嵌着金丝的华丽、飘逸的长袍不太相称，电梯旁的队伍中有人讨好地叫道：“早上好，亚克斯利！”他没有理睬。
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ChapterThirteen The Muggle-born RegistrationCommission
第十三章 麻瓜出身登记委员会
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Angrier than ever, he proceeded to grope inthe bottoms of the vases and baskets of dried flowers, but was not at allsurprised that the locket was not there. He gave the office one last sweepinglook, and his heart skipped a beat. Dumbledore was staring at him from asmall rectangular mirror, propped up on a bookcase beside the desk.
他更加怒火中烧，在干花的花瓶和篮子里摸索，但没摸到挂坠盒，他也并不意外。他最后扫视了一下这间办公室，突然心脏停跳了一下：桌边的书架上，邓布利多正从一面长方形的小镜子里望着他。
Harry crossed the room at a run and snatched it up, but realized the moment hetouched it that it was not a mirror at all. Dumbledore was smiling wistfullyout of the front cover of a glossy book. Harry had not immediately noticed thecurly green writing across his hat — The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore —nor the slightly smaller writing across his chest: “by Rita Skeeter,bestselling author of Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?”
哈利冲过去抓起它，但刚一摸到就发现那不是镜子，邓布利多是在一本书的光亮封皮上沉思微笑。哈利一时没有注意到他帽子上绿色花体字：阿不思·邓布利多的生平和谎言，也没有看到他胸前还有更小的字：丽塔·斯基特，畅销书《阿芒多·迪偑特：大师还是白痴？》的作者。
Harry opened the book at random and saw a full-page photograph of two teenage boys, both laughingimmoderately with their arms around each other’s shoulders. Dumbledore, nowwith elbowlength hair, had grown a tiny wispy beard that recalled the oneon Krum’s chin that had so annoyed Ron. The boy who roared in silent amusementbeside Dumbledore had a gleeful, wild look about him. His golden hair fell incurls to his shoulders. Harry wondered whether it was a young Doge, but beforehe could check the caption, the door of the office opened.
哈利随手把书打开，看到一页照片，是两个十来岁的男孩，互相搭着肩膀，放肆地大笑。邓布利多头发已长及胳膊肘，还多了一绺淡淡的小胡子，让人想到克鲁姆下巴上让罗恩那么讨厌的细须。在邓布利多旁边无声大笑的那个少年给人一种快乐狂放的感觉，金色的鬈发垂到肩头。哈利猜想他是不是年轻时的多吉，但还没来得及看说明，办公室的门开了。
IfThicknesse had not been looking over his shoulder as he entered, Harry wouldnot have had time to pull the Invisibility Cloak over himself. As it was, hethought Thicknesse might have caught a glimpse of movement, because for amoment or two he remained quite still, staring curiously at the place whereHarry had just vanished. Perhaps deciding that all he had seen was Dumbledorescratching his nose on the front of the book, for Harry had hastily replaced itupon the shelf, Thicknesse finally walked to the desk and pointed his wand atthe quill standing ready in the ink pot. It sprang out and began scribbling anote to Umbridge. Very slowly, hardly daring to breathe, Harry backed out ofthe office into the open area beyond.
要不是辛克尼斯进来时扭头望了望外面，哈利都没有时间披上隐形衣。但是，他想辛克尼斯可能还是瞥见了一点动静，因为他有那么一会儿站着一动不动，惊奇地盯着哈利刚刚消失的地方，或许断定刚才看到的是邓布利多在封面上挠了挠鼻子（哈利已经匆忙把书放回架子上）。辛克尼斯终于走到桌前，用魔杖指着插在墨水瓶里的羽毛笔，它立刻跳出来，开始给乌姆里奇写一张便条。哈利屏住呼吸，慢慢退出办公室，回到那块宽敞的区域。
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Chapter Fourteen The Thief
第十四章 小偷
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“But then, where’s he? Hang on. . . . You don’t mean he’s atGrimmauld Place? He can’t get in there?”
“可是，他在哪儿？等一等……你不会是说他们在格里莫广场吧？他进不去吧？”
Her eyes sparkled with unshed tears as she nodded.
赫敏眼眶里闪动着泪光，摇了摇头。
“Harry, I think hecan. I — I forced him to let go with a Revulsion Jinx, but I’d already takenhim inside the Fidelius Charm’s protection. Since Dumbledore died, we’reSecret-Keepers, so I’ve given him the secret, haven’t I?”
“哈利，我想他能。我——我用抽离咒迫使他放手，可是我已经把他带进了赤胆忠心咒的保护范围。邓布利多死后，我们就是保密人了，所以我泄了密，是不是？”
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“I’m sorry,” Ronsaid, moaning a little as he raised himself to look at them, “but it feels likea — a jinx or something. Can’t we call him You-Know-Who — please?”
“对不起，”罗恩撑起身子看着他们，轻轻呻吟了一声，“它让我感觉像一个——一个恶咒什么的。我们不能叫他神秘人吗，拜托？”
“Dumbledore said fear of a name —” began Harry.
“邓布利多说，对一个名字的恐惧——”哈利说。
“In case you hadn’tnoticed, mate, calling You-Know-Who by his name didn’t do Dumbledore muchgood in the end,” Ron snapped back. “Just — just show You-Know-Who somerespect, will you?”
“提醒一下，伙计，直呼神秘人的名字并没给邓布利多带来什么好下场。”罗恩抢白道，“就——就对神秘人表示一点尊重，行不行？”
“Respect?” Harry repeated, butHermione shot him a warning look; apparently he was not to argue with Ron whilethe latter was in such a weakened condition.
“尊重？”哈利重复道，赫敏警告地瞥了哈利一眼，显然，在罗恩这样虚弱的情况下，不该与他争论。
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“There isn’t anychance someone’s destroyed it since Kreacher had it?” asked Ron hopefully. “Imean, are we sure it’s still a Horcrux?”
“会不会在克利切之后已经有人把它摧毁了？”罗恩心存侥幸地问，“我是说，能确定它还是魂器吗？”
“I think so,” said Hermione, taking itback from him and looking at it closely. “There’d be some sign of damage if ithad been magically destroyed.”
“我想还是，”赫敏说，把它拿在手里细细查看，“如果用魔法破坏过上面会有痕迹的。”
She passedit to Harry, who turned it over in his fingers. The thing looked perfect,pristine. He remembered the mangled remains of the diary, and how the stone inthe Horcrux ring had been cracked open when Dumbledore destroyed it.
她把它递给哈利，哈利拿在手上翻来覆去地看，这玩意儿看上去完好无损。他想到那残缺不全的日记，还有戒指魂器被邓布利多摧毁时，宝石上出现了裂缝。
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Harry’s scarwas burning now. He thought that there was so much they did not know: Lupin hadbeen right about magic they had never encountered or imagined. Why hadn’tDumbledore explained more? Had he thought that there would be time; that hewould live for years, for centuries perhaps, like his friend Nicolas Flamel? Ifso, he had been wrong. . . . Snape had seen to that. . . . Snape, the sleepingsnake, who had struck at the top of the tower . . .
哈利的伤疤现在火烧火燎地痛。他想到还有那么多他们不知道的事，卢平说得对，那么多从没见过的和想象不到的魔法。邓布利多为什么不多说一点呢？难道他以为有的是时间，以为他能活许多年，许多世纪，像他的朋友尼克。勒梅一样？如果那样的话，他想错了……斯内普已经下手……斯内普，那条潜伏的毒蛇，在塔楼顶上发起了攻击……
And Dumbledore had fallen . . . fallen . . .
邓布利多坠落下去……坠落下去……
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Chapter Fifteen The Goblin’s Revenge
第十五章 妖精的报复
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As Dumbledore had told Harry that he believed Voldemort had hidden the Horcruxes in placesimportant to him, they kept reciting, in a sort of dreary litany, thoselocations they knew that Voldemort had lived or visited. The orphanage where hehad been born and raised; Hogwarts, where he had been educated; Borgin andBurkes, where he had worked after completing school; then Albania, where he hadspent his years of exile: These formed the basis of their speculations.
邓布利多对哈利说过，伏地魔可能把魂器藏在对他有重要意义的地方。于是他们枯燥地反复念叨据悉伏地魔曾经居住或访问过的地点。他出生和度过童年的孤儿院、他就读的霍格沃茨、他离校后工作过的博金-博克，还有他流亡多年的阿尔巴尼亚：这些构成了他们推想的依据。
“Yeah, let’s go to Albania. Shouldn’t takemore than an afternoon to search an entire country,” said Ron sarcastically.
“是啊，去阿尔巴尼亚吧，搜索整个国家只要花一下午。”罗恩讽刺地说。
“There can’t be anything there. He’dalready made five of his Horcruxes before he went into exile, and Dumbledorewas certain the snake is the sixth,” said Hermione. “We know the snake’s not inAlbania, it’s usually with Vol —”
“那儿不会有什么。他流亡前已经制作了五个魂器，邓布利多断定那条蛇是第六个，”赫敏说，“我们知道那条蛇不在阿尔巴尼亚，它一般都跟伏——”
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Ron yawnedpointedly. Repressing a strong urge to throw something at him, Harry plowed on,“I still reckon he might have hidden something at Hogwarts.”
.罗恩有意打了个哈欠，哈利忍住想朝他扔东西的强烈冲动，勉强说下去：“我仍然觉得他可能在霍格沃茨藏了什么东西。”
Hermionesighed
赫敏叹了口气。
“But Dumbledore would have found it,Harry!”
“但邓布利多会发现的呀，哈利！”
Harryrepeated the argument he kept bringing out in favor of this theory.
哈利又搬出他为支持这个理论而反复提起的观点。
“Dumbledore said in front of me that he neverassumed he knew all of Hogwarts’s secrets. I’m telling you, if there was one place Vol —”
“邓布利多当面对我说，他从不认为自己知道霍格沃茨的所有秘密，如果有一个地方是伏——”
“Oi!”
“喂！”
“YOU-KNOW-WHO, then!” Harry shouted, goadedpast endurance. “If there was one place that was really important toYou-Know-Who, it was Hogwarts!”
“神－秘－人！”哈利吼道，被刺激得忍无可忍了，“如果有一个地方真正对神秘人有重要意义，那就是霍格沃茨！”
“Oh, come on,”scoffed Ron. “His school ?”
“哦，得了，”罗恩嘲笑道，“他的学校？”
“Yeah, his school!It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meanteverything to him, and even after he left —”
“对，他的学校！这是他第一个真正的家，一个表明他很特殊的地方，对他来说意味着一切，即使在他离开之后——”
“This is You-Know-Who we’re talkingabout, right? Not you?” inquired Ron. He was tugging at the chain of theHorcrux around his neck: Harry was visited by a desire to seize it and throttlehim.
“我们说的是神秘人，对吗?不是在说你吧?”罗恩问道，他在拉扯着脖子上魂器的链子。哈利那一刻真想抓住那链子把他勒死。
“You told us thatYou-Know-Who asked Dumbledore to give him a job after he left,” said Hermione.
“你告诉过我们神秘人离校后曾请求邓布利多给他一份工作。”赫敏说。
“That’s right,” saidHarry.
“不错。”哈利说。
“And Dumbledorethought he only wanted to come back to try and find something, probablyanother founder’s object, to make into another Horcrux?”
“邓布利多认为他只是想回来找什么东西，也许是另一个创始人的遗物，用来做新的魂器，对吗？”
“Yeah,” said Harry.
“对。”哈利说。
“But he didn’t getthe job, did he?” said Hermione. “So he never got the chance to find afounder’s object there and hide it in the school!”
“可是他没有得到那份工作，是不是？”赫敏说，“所以他没有机会找到创始人的遗物，再把它藏在学校！”
“Okay, then,” said Harry,defeated. “Forget Hogwarts.”
“好吧，那么，”哈利认输地说，“忘掉霍格沃茨吧。”
Without any other leads, they traveled into London and, hidden beneath theInvisibility Cloak, searched for the orphanage in which Voldemort had beenraised. Hermione stole into a library and discovered from their records thatthe place had been demolished many years before. They visited its site andfound a tower block of offices.
没有别的线索，他们去了伦敦，披着隐形衣寻找伏地魔住过的那所孤儿院。赫敏溜进一个图书馆，从资料中发现那所孤儿院多年前就拆毁了。他们到原址转了转，发现那里已经是办公大楼。
“We could trydigging in the foundations?” Hermione suggested halfheartedly.
“我们可以试试到地基里挖一挖？”赫敏热情不高地说。
“He wouldn’t havehidden a Horcrux here,” Harry said. He had known it all along: The orphanagehad been the place Voldemort had been determined to escape; he would never havehidden a part of his soul there. Dumbledore had shown Harry that Voldemortsought grandeur or mystique in his hiding places; this dismal gray corner ofLondon was as far removed as you could imagine from Hogwarts or the Ministry ora building like Gringotts, the Wizarding bank, with its golden doors and marblefloors.
“他不会把魂器藏在这里的。”哈利说。他早就知道：孤儿院是伏地魔决心要逃离的地方，他绝不会把自己灵魂的一部分藏在那儿。邓布利多曾提示哈利，伏地魔选择藏身之处时追求庄严或神秘的气氛。伦敦的这个阴郁灰暗的角落，与霍格沃茨、魔法部或是巫师银行古灵阁的金门和大理石地面，可以说有天壤之别。
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“Lucky for them,”said Ted. “With Snape’s track record I suppose we should just be glad they’restill alive.”
“真幸运。”泰德说，“以斯内普的一贯作风，我认为那帮孩子能活下来就不错了。”
“You believe thatstory, then, do you, Ted?” asked Dirk. “You believe Snape killed Dumbledore?”
“那么你也相信那个说法了，泰德？”德克问，“你相信是斯内普杀死了邓布利多？”
“ ’Course I do,” said Ted. “You’re notgoing to sit there and tell me you think Potter had anything to do with it?”
“我当然相信，”泰德说，“你不会坐在那儿告诉我，你认为波特与这事儿有关系吧？”
“Hard to know whatto believe these days,” muttered Dirk.
“这些日子很难知道该相信什么。”德克咕哝道。
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“Here . . . we . . . are . . .” she saidbetween gritted teeth, and she pulled at something that was evidently in thedepths of the bag. Slowly the edge of an ornate picture frame came into sight.Harry hurried to help her. As they lifted the empty portrait of PhineasNigellus free of Hermione’s bag, she kept her wand pointing at it, ready tocast a spell at any moment.
“找……到……了……”她咬着牙说，用力拽着一个显然压在深处的东西。慢慢地，一个华丽画框的边缘露了出来。哈利忙过去帮她，两个人把菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯的空画像拖出赫敏的小包时，她一直用魔杖指着它，准备随时施出咒语。
“If somebody swapped the real sword for thefake while it was in Dumbledore’s office,” she panted, as they propped thepainting against the side of the tent, “Phineas Nigellus would have seen ithappen, he hangs right beside the case!”
“如果有人在邓布利多办公室里用赝品跟真宝剑掉包，”他们把画框靠在帐篷壁上时，赫敏喘着气说，“菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯会看到的，他就挂在宝剑匣子旁边！”
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Still blindfolded, he began groping the side of his frame, trying to feel hisway out of his picture and back into the one at Hogwarts. Harry had a suddeninspiration.
仍然蒙着眼睛，他开始在画框侧面摸索，想摸着走出画像，回到霍格沃茨的那一幅里去。哈利突然灵机一动。
“Dumbledore! Can’t you bring us Dumbledore?”
“邓布利多！您能把邓布利多带来吗？”
“I beg your pardon?”asked Phineas Nigellus.
“什么？”菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯问。
“ProfessorDumbledore’s portrait — couldn’t you bring him along, here, into yours?”
“邓布利多教授的肖像——您能把他带来吗，带到您的画像里？”
Phineas Nigellus turned his face in the direction of Harry’s voice.
菲尼亚斯。奈杰勒斯把脸转向哈利发声的方向。
“Evidently it is notonly Muggle-borns who are ignorant, Potter. The portraits of Hogwarts maycommune with each other, but they cannot travel outside the castle except tovisit a painting of themselves hanging elsewhere. Dumbledore cannot come herewith me, and after the treatment I have received at your hands, I can assureyou that I shall not be making a return visit!”
“显然，无知的不只是麻瓜出身的人，波特。霍格沃茨的肖像可以互相交谈，但不能离开城堡，除非是去访问他们自己在别处的肖像。邓布利多不能跟我来此，而且，在你们手中受到这种待遇之后，我可以向你们保证，本人也不会再来造访！”
Slightly crestfallen, Harry watched Phineas redouble his attempts to leave hisframe.
哈利有点沮丧，看着菲尼亚斯加倍努力要离开画框。
“Professor Black,” said Hermione,“couldn’t you just tell us, please, when was the last time the sword was takenout of its case? Before Ginny took it out, I mean?”
“布莱克教授，”赫敏说，“劳驾，能不能请您告诉我们，那把剑上一次从匣子里取出是什么时候？我是说，在金妮把它取出之前？”
Phineassnorted impatiently.
菲尼亚斯不耐烦地哼了一声。
“I believe that thelast time I saw the sword of Gryffindor leave its case was when ProfessorDumbledore used it to break open a ring.”
“我相信，上一次我看见格兰芬多的宝剑离开匣子，是邓布利多用它劈开了一枚戒指。”
Hermione whipped around to look at Harry. Neither of them dared say more infront of Phineas Nigellus, who had at last managed to locate the exit.
赫敏猛然转身望着哈利。当着菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯他们都不敢多说。菲尼亚斯终于摸到了出口。
“Well, good night toyou,” he said a little waspishly, and he began to move out of sight again. Onlythe edge of his hat brim remained in view when Harry gave a sudden shout.
“好吧，祝你们晚安。”他有点刻毒地说，开始退出。当画面上只看到到一点帽檐时，哈利突然大叫一声。
“Wait! Have you toldSnape you saw this?”
“等等！你把这告诉斯内普了吗？”
PhineasNigellus stuck his blindfolded head back into the picture.
菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯把蒙着眼睛的脑袋又探进画框。
“Professor Snape has more importantthings on his mind than the many eccentricities of Albus Dumbledore.Good-bye, Potter!”
“斯内普教授有更重要的事要操心，无暇考虑阿不思·邓布利多的种种怪癖行为。再见，波特！”
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“And Dumbledore didn’t give it to me because hestill needed it, he wanted to use it on the locket —”
“邓布利多没有把它交给我，是因为他还需要它，他想用它摧毁挂坠盒——”
“— and he must haverealized they wouldn’t let you have it if he put it in his will —”
“——他一定想到了，如果把它写进了遗嘱，他们就不会让你得到它——”
“— so he made a copy —”
“——所以他仿制了一把——”
“— and put a fake inthe glass case —”
“— and he left the realone — where?”
“——然后把真的那把放在……哪儿呢？”
They gazed at each other; Harry felt that the answer was dangling invisibly inthe air above them, tantalizingly close. Why hadn’t Dumbledore told him? Or hadhe, in fact, told Harry, but Harry had not realized it at the time?
他们瞪着对方，哈利感到答案就悬在他们头顶的空气中，那么近却就是够不到。为什么邓布利多没告诉他呢？或者告诉过，但哈利当时没意识到？
“Think!” whisperedHermione. “Think! Where would he have left it?”
“想想！”赫敏小声说，“想想！他会把它放在哪儿？”
“Not at Hogwarts,”said Harry, resuming his pacing.
“不在霍格沃茨。”哈利说，又踱起步来。
“Somewhere inHogsmeade?” suggested Hermione.
“在霍格莫德的什么地方？”赫敏猜想。
“The Shrieking Shack?” said Harry.“Nobody ever goes in there.”
“尖叫棚屋？”哈利说，“没人到那儿去。”
“But Snape knows howto get in, wouldn’t that be a bit risky?”
“可是斯内普知道怎么进去，那不是有点冒险吗？”
“Dumbledore trusted Snape,” Harry reminded her.
“邓布利多信任斯内普。”哈利提醒她。
“Not enough to tell him that he had swapped theswords,” saidHermione.
“没有信任到告诉他宝剑已经掉包。”赫敏说。
“Yeah, you’reright!” said Harry, and he felt even more cheered at the thought thatDumbledore had had some reservations, however faint, about Snape’strustworthiness.“So, would he have hidden the sword well away from Hogsmeade, then? What d’youreckon, Ron? Ron?”
“是啊，你说得对！”哈利说，想到邓布利多对斯内普的信任有所保留，他感到更加快慰，无论那是多么微弱的保留，“那么，他会不会把宝剑藏在远离霍格莫德的地方呢？你怎么想，罗恩？罗恩？”
