14 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback

CHAPTER FOURTEEN NORBERT THE NORWEGIAN RIDGEBACK uirrell, however, must have been braver than they'd thought. In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting paler and thinner, but it didn't look as though he'd cracked yet. Every time they passed the third-floor corridor, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would press their ears

第十四章挪威脊背龙诺伯特不过，威洛尔一定比他们想象的要勇敢。 在接下来的几个星期里，他看起来确实变得越来越苍白和消瘦，但看起来他还没有崩溃。 每次经过三楼的走廊时，哈利、罗恩和赫敏都紧紧地贴着耳朵

to the door to check that Fluffy was still growling inside. Snape was sweeping about in his usual bad temper, which surely meant that the Stone was still safe. Whenever Harry passed Quirrell these days he gave him an encouraging sort of smile, and Ron had started telling people off for laughing at Quirrell's stutter. Hermione, however, had more on her mind than the Sorcerer's Stone. She had started drawing up study schedules and color-coding all her notes. Harry and Ron wouldn't have minded, but she kept nagging them to do the same. "Hermione, the exams are ages away." "Ten weeks," Hermione snapped. "That's not ages, that's like a second to Nicolas Flamel." "But we're not six hundred years old," Ron reminded her. "Anyway, what are you studying for, you already know it all." "What am I studying for? Are you crazy? You realize we need to pass these exams to get into the

走到门口，看看路威是否还在里面咆哮。 斯内普像往常一样坏脾气地走来走去，这肯定意味着魔法石仍然安全。 这些天，哈利每次经过奇洛身边，都会给他一个鼓励的微笑，罗恩也开始责备那些嘲笑奇洛口吃的人。 赫敏脑子里想的可不仅仅是魔法石。 她已经开始制定学习计划，并把所有的笔记都用颜色标注出来。 哈利和罗恩本来不会介意的，但她不停地唠叨，要他们也这么做。 “赫敏，考试还早着呢。” “十个星期。”赫敏厉声说。 “这不是年龄，这就像尼古拉斯·勒梅的一秒钟。” “可我们又没有六百岁啊。”罗恩提醒她。 “不管怎样，你学什么，你已经知道了。” “我为什么而学习？”你疯了吗？ 你知道我们需要通过这些考试才能进入

second year? They're very important, I should have started studying a month ago, I don't know what's gotten into me. Unfortunately, the teachers seemed to be thinking along the same lines as Hermione. They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren't nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon's blood or practicing wand movements. Moaning and yawning, Harry and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with her, trying to get through all their extra work. "I'll never remember this," Ron burst out one afternoon, throwing down his quill and looking longingly out of the library window. It was the first really fine day they'd had in months. The sky was a clear, forget-me-not blue, and there was a feeling in the air of summer coming.

第二年?它们很重要，我一个月前就应该开始学习了，我不知道我是怎么了。 不幸的是，老师们的想法似乎和赫敏一样。 他们给孩子们布置了大量的家庭作业，复活节假期远不如圣诞节假期有趣。 赫敏在你旁边背诵龙血的十二种用法或练习魔杖的动作，你很难放松下来。 哈利和罗恩呻吟着，打着哈欠，把大部分空闲时间都花在了图书馆里，陪着她，努力完成所有的课外作业。 “我永远也记不住了。”一天下午，罗恩脱口而出，扔下羽毛笔，渴望地望着图书馆窗外。 这是他们几个月来第一个真正的好天气。 天空是晴朗的，勿忘我的蓝，空气中有一种夏天即将来临的感觉。

Harry, who was looking up "Dittany" in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, didn't look up until he heard Ron say, "Hagrid! What are you doing in the library?" Hagrid shuffled into view, hiding something behind his back. He looked very out of place in his moleskin overcoat. "Jus' lookin'," he said, in a shifty voice that got their interest at once. "An' what're you lot up ter?" He looked suddenly suspicious. "Yer not still lookin' fer Nicolas Flamel, are yeh?" "Oh, we found out who he is ages ago," said Ron impressively. "And we know what that dog's guarding, it's a Sorcerer's St—" "Shhhh!" Hagrid looked around quickly to see if anyone was listening. "Don' go shoutin' about it, what's the matter with yeh?" "There are a few things we wanted to ask you, as a matter of fact," said Harry, "about what's guarding the Stone apart from Fluffy—"

哈利正在《一千种神奇草药和菌类》中查找“白丹酊”，直到听到罗恩说：“海格！你在图书馆干什么？”海格慢吞吞地走了进来，把什么东西藏在背后。 他穿着鼹鼠皮大衣，显得很不相称。 “只是看看。”他用一种诡谲的声音说，立刻引起了他们的兴趣。 “你们在那儿干什么呢？”他突然露出怀疑的神色。 “你不会还在找尼可·勒梅吧？”“哦，我们很久以前就知道他是谁了。”罗恩令人印象深刻地说。 “而且我们知道那条狗在看守什么，那是巫师的圣——”“嘘！”海格迅速环顾四周，看看是否有人在听。 “别嚷嚷了，你怎么啦？”“事实上，我们有几件事想问你，”哈利说，“除了路威，还有什么在守卫着魔法石——”

"SHHHH!" said Hagrid again. "Listen— come an' see me later, I'm not promisin' I'll tell yeh anythin', mind, but don' go rabbitin' about it in here, students aren' s'pposed ter know. They'll think I've told yeh—" "See you later, then," said Harry. Hagrid shuffled off. "What was he hiding behind his back?" said Hermione thoughtfully. "Do you think it had anything to do with the Stone?" "I'm going to see what section he was in," said Ron, who'd had enough of working. He came back a minute later with a pile of books in his arms and slammed them down on the table. "Dragons!" he whispered. "Hagrid was looking up stuff about dragons! Look at these: Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland; From Egg to Inferno, A Dragon Keeper's Guide."

“嘘——”海格又说。 “听着——待会儿来找我吧。记住，我不保证会告诉你任何事情，但别在这里大惊小怪，学生是不应该知道的。” 他们会以为我告诉你们了——”“那就待会儿见。”哈利说。 海格慢吞吞地走开了。“他在背后藏了什么？”赫敏若有所思地问。 “你认为这和魔法石有关吗？”“我去看看他在哪个部门。”罗恩说，他已经受够了工作。 一分钟后，他抱着一堆书回来了，砰地一声把书扔在桌子上。 “龙！”他低声说。“海格在查找有关龙的资料！”看看这些：大不列颠和爱尔兰的龙；《从蛋到地狱，龙守护者指南》

"Hagrid's always wanted a dragon, he told me so the first time I ever met him," said Harry. "But it's against our laws," said Ron. "Dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709, everyone knows that. It's hard to stop Muggles from noticing us if we're keeping dragons in the back garden— anyway, you can't tame dragons, it's dangerous. You should see the burns Charlie's got off wild ones in Romania." "But there aren't wild dragons in Britain?" said Harry. "Of course there are," said Ron. "Common Welsh Green and Hebridean Blacks. The Ministry of Magic has a job hushing them up, I can tell you. Our kind have to keep putting spells on Muggles who've spotted them, to make them forget." "So what on earth's Hagrid up to?" said Hermione.

“海格一直想要一条龙，我第一次见到他的时候他就告诉我了。”哈利说。 “但这是违反我们的法律的。”罗恩说。 “1709年的《术士公约》禁止养龙，这一点大家都知道。 如果我们在后花园养龙，很难不让麻瓜注意到我们——不管怎么说，你不能驯服龙，那是危险的。 你真该看看查理在罗马尼亚被野蛇咬伤的样子。” “可是英国没有野龙？”哈利问。 “当然有。”罗恩说。 “普通威尔士绿和赫布里底黑。 我可以告诉你，魔法部的工作就是让他们闭嘴。 我们的族人必须不断地对看到他们的麻瓜施咒，让他们忘记。” “那海格到底在干什么？”赫敏问。