15 Aragog

CHAPTER FIFTEEN ARAGOG ummer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky and lake alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers large as cabbages burst into bloom in the greenhouses. But with no Hagrid visible from the castle windows, striding the grounds with Fang at his heels, the scene

第十五章阿拉戈克的夏天在城堡周围的地面上蔓延；天空和湖水都变成了紫红色，温室里像卷心菜一样大的花朵绽放了。 但是从城堡的窗户里看不见海格大步走在操场上，牙牙跟在他的后面，这情景真是太可怕了

didn't look right to Harry; no better, in fact, than the inside of the castle, where things were so horribly wrong. Harry and Ron had tried to visit Hermione, but visitors were now barred from the hospital wing. "We're taking no more chances," Madam Pomfrey told them severely through a crack in the infirmary door. "No, I'm sorry, there's every chance the attacker might come back to finish these people off...." With Dumbledore gone, fear had spread as never before, so that the sun warming the castle walls outside seemed to stop at the mullioned windows. There was barely a face to be seen in the school that didn't look worried and tense, and any laughter that rang through the corridors sounded shrill and unnatural and was quickly stifled. Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.... Help

哈利觉得有点不对劲。事实上，不比城堡里面好，那里的情况非常糟糕。 哈利和罗恩本来想去看赫敏，但现在医院禁止探视者进入。 “我们不能再冒险了。”庞弗雷夫人透过医务室的门缝严厉地对他们说。 “不，对不起，攻击者很有可能会回来把这些人干掉....” 邓布利多走了，恐惧前所未有地蔓延开来，以至于温暖城堡外墙的太阳似乎停在了镶着直棂的窗户上。 学校里几乎没有一张脸不显得焦虑和紧张，走廊里传来的笑声听起来刺耳而不自然，很快就被压制住了。 哈利不断地在心里重复邓布利多最后的话。 “只有当这里没有人忠于我的时候，我才会真正离开这所学校.... 帮助

will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were? Hagrid's hint about the spiders was far easier to understand — the trouble was, there didn't seem to be a single spider left in the castle to follow. Harry looked everywhere he went, helped (rather reluctantly) by Ron. They were hampered, of course, by the fact that they weren't allowed to wander off on their own but had to move around the castle in a pack with the other Gryffindors. Most of their fellow students seemed glad that they were being shepherded from class to class by teachers, but Harry found it very irksome. One person, however, seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the atmosphere of terror and suspicion. Draco Malfoy was strutting around the school as though he had just been appointed Head Boy.

在霍格沃茨总是会给那些有要求的人。” 但这些话有什么用呢？ 当每个人都和他们一样困惑和害怕的时候，他们到底应该向谁寻求帮助呢？ 海格关于蜘蛛的暗示要容易理解得多——问题是，城堡里似乎没有一只蜘蛛可以跟踪了。 哈利在罗恩的帮助下（很不情愿地）到处张望。 当然，他们受到了阻碍，因为学校不允许他们独自外出，他们必须和其他格兰芬多的学生一起成群结队地在城堡里走来走去。 大多数同学似乎都很高兴有老师领着他们从一节课走到另一节课，但哈利觉得很讨厌。 然而，有一个人似乎很享受这种恐怖和怀疑的气氛。 德拉科·马尔福在学校里趾高气扬地走来走去，好像他刚刚被任命为男生学生会主席。

Harry didn't realize what he was so pleased about until the Potions lesson about two weeks after Dumbledore and Hagrid had left, when, sitting right behind Malfoy, Harry overheard him gloating to Crabbe and Goyle. "I always thought Father might be the one who got rid of Dumbledore," he said, not troubling to keep his voice down. "I told you he thinks Dumbledore's the worst headmaster the school's ever had. Maybe we'll get a decent headmaster now. Someone who won't want the Chamber of Secrets closed. McGonagall won't last long, she's only filling in...." Snape swept past Harry, making no comment about Hermione's empty seat and cauldron. "Sir," said Malfoy loudly. "Sir, why don't you apply for the headmaster's job?" "Now, now, Malfoy," said Snape, though he couldn't suppress a thin-lipped smile. "Professor Dumbledore has only been suspended by the

哈利一直不知道自己为什么这么高兴，直到邓布利多和海格离开大约两个星期后的魔药课上，哈利坐在马尔福身后，无意中听到他对克拉布和高尔幸灾乐祸。 “我一直以为爸爸可能就是除掉邓布利多的人。”他说，懒得压低声音。 “我告诉过你，他认为邓布利多是学校有史以来最糟糕的校长。 也许我们现在该找个像样的校长了。 一个不希望密室关闭的人。 麦格干不了多久的，她只是临时代课....” 斯内普从哈利身边走过，对赫敏的空座位和坩埚只字不提。 “先生。”马尔福大声说。 “先生，你为什么不申请校长的职位呢？”“好了，好了，马尔福。”斯内普说，但他还是忍不住露出了一抹薄薄的微笑。 “邓布利多教授只是被

governors. I daresay he'll be back with us soon enough." "Yeah, right," said Malfoy, smirking. "I expect you'd have Father's vote, sir, if you wanted to apply for the job — I'll tell Father you're the best teacher here, sir—" Snape smirked as he swept off around the dungeon, fortunately not spotting Seamus Finnigan, who was pretending to vomit into his cauldron. "I'm quite surprised the Mudbloods haven't all packed their bags by now," Malfoy went on. "Bet you five Galleons the next one dies. Pity it wasn't Granger—" The bell rang at that moment, which was lucky; at Malfoy's last words, Ron had leapt off his stool, and in the scramble to collect bags and books, his attempts to reach Malfoy went unnoticed. "Let me at him," Ron growled as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. "I don't care, I don't

州长。我敢说他很快就会回来的。” “是啊，没错。”马尔福得意地笑着说。 “如果你想申请这份工作，我希望你能得到爸爸的支持，先生——我会告诉爸爸你是这里最好的老师，先生——”斯内普得意地笑着，在地牢里溜达着，幸好没有看见西莫·斐尼甘，他正假装对着坩埚呕吐。 “我很奇怪，泥巴种到现在还没有收拾好行李。”马尔福接着说。 “跟你赌五个加隆，下一个就死定了。 可惜不是格兰杰——”就在这时，铃声响了，真是幸运。听到马尔福说的最后一句话，罗恩一下子从凳子上跳了起来，在大家争抢书包和书本的时候，没有人注意到他想去找马尔福。 “让我揍他。”罗恩吼道，哈利和迪安抓住他的胳膊。 “我不在乎，我不在乎

need my wand, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands—" "Hurry up, I've got to take you all to Herbology," barked Snape over the class's heads, and off they marched, with Harry, Ron, and Dean bringing up the rear, Ron still trying to get loose. It was only safe to let go of him when Snape had seen them out of the castle and they were making their way across the vegetable patch toward the greenhouses. The Herbology class was very subdued; there were now two missing from their number, Justin and Hermione. Professor Sprout set them all to work pruning the Abyssinian Shrivelfigs. Harry went to tip an armful of withered stalks onto the compost heap and found himself face-to-face with Ernie Macmillan. Ernie took a deep breath and said, very formally, "I just want to say, Harry, that I'm sorry I ever suspected you. I know you'd never

“快点，我要带你们去上草药课。”斯内普在全班同学的头顶上吼道，然后他们就走了，哈利、罗恩和迪安走在后面，罗恩还想挣脱。 等到斯内普目送他们走出城堡，穿过菜地朝温室走去的时候，他们才放心地放开了他。 草药课很沉闷；现在他们少了两个，贾斯廷和赫敏。 斯普劳特教授让他们都去修剪阿比西尼亚干无花果。 哈利走过去，把一把枯萎的秸秆倒在堆肥堆上，发现自己和厄尼·麦克米伦面对面。 厄尼深吸了一口气，非常正式地说：“我只想说，哈利，我很抱歉曾经怀疑过你。 我知道你永远不会