15 The Forbidden Forest

CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE FORBIDDEN FOREST hings couldn't have been worse. Filch took them down to Professor McGonagall's study on the first floor, where they sat and waited without saying a word to each other. Hermione was trembling. Excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last. He couldn't see how they were going to get

第十五章禁林事情再糟糕不过了。 费尔奇把他们带到一楼麦格教授的书房，他们坐在那里，一言不发地等着。 赫敏在发抖。借口、托辞和疯狂的掩盖事实的故事在哈利脑子里一个接一个地跑来跑去，一个比一个站不住脚。 他看不出他们会怎样

out of trouble this time. They were cornered. How could they have been so stupid as to forget the Cloak? There was no reason on earth that Professor McGonagall would accept for their being out of bed and creeping around the school in the dead of night, let alone being up the tallest Astronomy Tower, which was out-of-bounds except for classes. Add Norbert and the Invisibility Cloak, and they might as well be packing their bags already. Had Harry thought that things couldn't have been worse? He was wrong. When Professor McGonagall appeared, she was leading Neville. "Harry!" Neville burst out, the moment he saw the other two. "I was trying to find you to warn you, I heard Malfoy saying he was going to catch you, he said you had a drag—" Harry shook his head violently to shut Neville up, but Professor McGonagall had seen. She

这次摆脱麻烦了。他们走投无路了。 他们怎么这么蠢，竟把隐形衣给忘了呢？ 麦格教授无论如何也不能接受他们在深更半夜下床，在学校里鬼鬼祟祟地走动，更不用说爬上最高的天文塔了，那里除了上课以外是禁止入内的。 加上诺伯和隐形衣，他们可能已经在收拾行李了。 哈利是不是觉得情况不会更糟呢？ 他错了。麦格教授出现时，正领着纳威。 “哈利!”纳威一看到另外两个人，就脱口而出。 “我想找你警告你，我听见马尔福说他要抓住你，他说你有一根绳子——”哈利使劲摇了摇头，想让纳威闭嘴，可是麦格教授看见了。 她

looked more likely to breathe fire than Norbert as she towered over the three of them. "I would never have believed it of any of you. Mr. Filch says you were up in the Astronomy Tower. It's one o'clock in the morning. Explain yourselves." It was the first time Hermione had ever failed to answer a teacher's question. She was staring at her slippers, as still as a statue. "I think I've got a good idea of what's been going on," said Professor McGonagall. "It doesn't take a genius to work it out. You fed Draco Malfoy some cock-and-bull story about a dragon, trying to get him out of bed and into trouble. I've already caught him. I suppose you think it's funny that Longbottom here heard the story and believed it, too?" Harry caught Neville's eye and tried to tell him without words that this wasn't true, because Neville was looking stunned and hurt. Poor,

看起来比诺伯更可能喷火，因为她比他们三个人都高。 “我根本不相信你们会这样。 费尔奇先生说你在天文塔上。 现在是凌晨一点。 解释自己。”这是赫敏第一次没有回答老师的问题。 她盯着自己的拖鞋，像雕像一样一动不动。 “我想我很清楚发生了什么事。”麦格教授说。 “不需要天才也能解决这个问题。 你给德拉科·马尔福编了一个关于龙的无稽之谈，想把他从床上弄出来惹上麻烦。 我已经抓住他了。我想你觉得隆巴顿听到这个故事也相信很可笑吧？”哈利抓住纳威的目光，试图无声地告诉他这不是真的，因为纳威看上去又震惊又受伤。 穷,

blundering Neville Harry knew what it must have cost him to try and find them in the dark, to warn them. "I'm disgusted," said Professor McGonagall. "Four students out of bed in one night! I've never heard of such a thing before! You, Miss Granger, I thought you had more sense. As for you, Mr. Potter, I thought Gryffindor meant more to you than this. All three of you will receive detentions yes, you too, Mr. Longbottom, nothing gives you the right to walk around school at night, especially these days, it's very dangerous and fifty points will be taken from Gryffindor." "Fifty?" Harry gasped they would lose the lead, the lead he'd won in the last Quidditch match. "Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily through her long, pointed nose. "Professor pleas—" "You can't—"

笨手笨脚的纳威哈利知道，要在黑暗中找到他们，警告他们，他一定付出了多大的代价。 “我觉得恶心。”麦格教授说。 “一个晚上有四个学生不睡觉！”我从来没听说过这种事！你，格兰杰小姐，我还以为你更有见识呢。 至于你，波特先生，我以为格兰芬多对你来说比这更重要。 你们三个都要被关禁闭——是的，还有你，隆巴顿先生，你没有权利在夜里在学校里走来走去，尤其是最近，这是非常危险的，格兰芬多会被扣掉五十分。” “五十?”哈利喘着气说，他们要失去领先优势了，他在上次魁地奇比赛中赢得的领先优势。 “每人五十分。”麦格教授说，用她那又长又尖的鼻子大口地喘着气。 “教授，请你——”“你不能——”

"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. Now get back to bed, all of you. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students." A hundred and fifty points lost. That put Gryffindor in last place. In one night, they'd ruined any chance Gryffindor had had for the House Cup. Harry felt as though the bottom had dropped out of his stomach. How could they ever make up for this? Harry didn't sleep all night. He could hear Neville sobbing into his pillow for what seemed like hours. Harry couldn't think of anything to say to comfort him. He knew Neville, like himself, was dreading the dawn. What would happen when the rest of Gryffindor found out what they'd done? At first, Gryffindors passing the giant hourglasses that recorded the House points the next day thought there'd been a mistake. How could they suddenly have a hundred and fifty points fewer than yesterday? And then the story

“别告诉我能做什么，不能做什么，波特。 你们都回去睡觉吧。 我从来没有像现在这样为格兰芬多的学生感到羞耻。” 丢了150分。 格兰芬多队因此排在最后一名。 一夜之间，他们就毁了格兰芬多参加学院杯的任何机会。 哈利觉得肚子里好像掉了个底朝天。 他们怎么能弥补呢？ 哈利整夜没睡。 他听见纳威伏在枕头上啜泣了好几个小时。 哈利想不出什么话来安慰他。 他知道纳威和他自己一样，都在害怕黎明。 如果格兰芬多的其他人发现了他们的所作所为，会发生什么呢？ 第二天，当格兰芬多的学生经过记录学院分数的巨大沙漏时，他们以为出了什么差错。 他们怎么会突然比昨天少了150分呢？ 然后是故事

started to spread: Harry Potter, the famous Harry Potter, their hero of two Quidditch matches, had lost them all those points, him and a couple of other stupid first years. From being one of the most popular and admired people at the school, Harry was suddenly the most hated. Even Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs turned on him, because everyone had been longing to see Slytherin lose the House Cup. Everywhere Harry went, people pointed and didn't trouble to lower their voices as they insulted him. Slytherins, on the other hand, clapped as he walked past them, whistling and cheering, "Thanks Potter, we owe you one!" Only Ron stood by him. "They'll all forget this in a few weeks. Fred and George have lost loads of points in all the time they've been here, and people still like them." "They've never lost a hundred and fifty points in one go, though, have they?" said Harry

哈利·波特，大名鼎鼎的哈利·波特，他们两场魁地奇比赛的英雄，把他们丢了那么多分，他和另外两个愚蠢的一年级新生。 哈利从学校里最受欢迎、最受尊敬的人之一，突然变成了最招人讨厌的人。 就连拉文克劳和赫奇帕奇也反对他，因为大家都渴望看到斯莱特林输掉学院杯。 无论哈利走到哪里，人们总是指指点点，侮辱他的时候都懒得降低声音。 而斯莱特林的学生们，当他走过他们身边时，一边鼓掌，一边吹着口哨欢呼：“谢谢你，波特，我们欠你一个人情！”只有罗恩站在他旁边。 “过不了几个星期，他们就会忘记这件事。 弗雷德和乔治在这里待了这么久，丢了好多分，但人们仍然喜欢他们。” “不过，他们从来没有一次丢过一百五十分，是不是？”哈利说