18 Dobby’s Reward

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN DOBBY'S REWARD For a moment there was silence as Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart stood in the doorway, covered in muck and slime and (in Harry's case) blood. Then there was a scream. "Ginny!" It was Mrs. Weasley, who had been sitting crying in front of the fire. She leapt to her feet,

第十八章多比的奖赏哈利、罗恩、金妮和洛哈特站在门口，浑身都是烂泥和黏液，还有（哈利身上的）血，屋里顿时一片寂静。 然后是一声尖叫。“金妮!”是韦斯莱夫人，她一直坐在火炉前哭。 她跳了起来，

closely followed by Mr. Weasley, and both of them flung themselves on their daughter. Harry, however, was looking past them. Professor Dumbledore was standing by the mantelpiece, beaming, next to Professor McGonagall, who was taking great, steadying gasps, clutching her chest. Fawkes went whooshing past Harry's ear and settled on Dumbledore's shoulder, just as Harry found himself and Ron being swept into Mrs. Weasley's tight embrace. "You saved her! You saved her! How did you do it?" "I think we'd all like to know that," said Professor McGonagall weakly. Mrs. Weasley let go of Harry, who hesitated for a moment, then walked over to the desk and laid upon it the Sorting Hat, the ruby-encrusted sword, and what remained of Riddle's diary.

紧跟在后面的是韦斯莱先生，两人都扑到女儿身上。 然而，哈利的目光越过了他们。 邓布利多教授站在壁炉边，笑容满面，旁边是麦格教授，麦格教授紧紧地捂着胸口，大口大口地喘着气。 福克斯嗖嗖地从哈利耳边飞过，落在邓布利多的肩膀上，哈利发现自己和罗恩被韦斯莱夫人紧紧地搂在怀里。 “你救了她！”你救了她！你是怎么做到的？”“我想我们大家都想知道。”麦格教授虚弱地说。 韦斯莱夫人放开了哈利，哈利犹豫了一会儿，然后走到桌子前，把分院帽、镶着红宝石的宝剑和里德尔的日记放在上面。

Then he started telling them everything. For nearly a quarter of an hour he spoke into the rapt silence: He told them about hearing the disembodied voice, how Hermione had finally realized that he was hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he and Ron had followed the spiders into the forest, that Aragog had told them where the last victim of the basilisk had died; how he had guessed that Moaning Myrtle had been the victim, and that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets might be in her bathroom. "Very well," Professor McGonagall prompted him as he paused, "so you found out where the entrance was breaking a hundred school rules into pieces along the way, I might add but how on earth did you all get out of there alive, Potter?" So Harry, his voice now growing hoarse from all this talking, told them about Fawkes's timely arrival and about the Sorting Hat giving him the sword. But then he faltered. He had so far avoided

然后他开始告诉他们一切。 他在一片全神贯注的寂静中讲了将近一刻钟。他告诉大家，他听到了那个没有实体的声音，赫敏终于意识到他听到的是管道里的蛇怪。他和罗恩跟着蜘蛛进了森林，阿拉戈克告诉了他们蛇怪最后一个受害者的死亡地点；他猜到哭泣的桃金娘就是受害者，密室的入口可能在她的盥洗室里。 “很好，”他停顿了一下，麦格教授提醒他说，“这么说，你找到了入口的位置，一路上违反了一百条校规，我得补充一句，但你们到底是怎么活着出来的，波特？”哈利说了这么多话，声音变得嘶哑了，他告诉他们福克斯及时赶到了，分院帽把宝剑给了他。 但随后他就犹豫了。到目前为止，他一直回避

mentioning Riddle's diary or Ginny. She was standing with her head against Mrs. Weasley's shoulder, and tears were still coursing silently down her cheeks. What if they expelled her? Harry thought in panic. Riddle's diary didn't work anymore. How could they prove it had been he who'd made her do it all? Instinctively, Harry looked at Dumbledore, who smiled faintly, the firelight glancing off his halfmoon spectacles. "What interests me most," said Dumbledore gently, "is how Lord Voldemort managed to enchant Ginny, when my sources tell me he is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania." Relief warm, sweeping, glorious relief swept over Harry. "W-what's that?" said Mr. Weasley in a stunned voice. "You-Know-Who? En-enchant Ginny? But Ginny's not Ginny hasn't been has she?"

提到里德尔的日记和金妮。 她站在那里，把头靠在韦斯莱夫人的肩膀上，眼泪还在悄悄地顺着脸颊流下来。 如果他们把她开除了呢？ 哈利惊慌地想。里德尔的日记不再管用了。 他们怎么能证明是他让她做的这一切呢？ 哈利本能地看着邓布利多，邓布利多微微一笑，火光从他的半月形眼镜上掠过。 “我最感兴趣的是，”邓布利多温和地说，“伏地魔是怎么给金妮施了魔法的，我的消息来源告诉我，他现在躲在阿尔巴尼亚的森林里。” 暖暖的、光彩照人的、光彩照人的松了一口气，哈利浑身都松了一口气。 “那——那是什么？”韦斯莱先生惊愕地问。 “人一样吗?En-enchant金妮? 可是金妮不是——金妮没有去过，是不是？”

"It was this diary," said Harry quickly, picking it up and showing it to Dumbledore. "Riddle wrote it when he was sixteen...." Dumbledore took the diary from Harry and peered keenly down his long, crooked nose at its burnt and soggy pages. "Brilliant," he said softly. "Of course, he was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen." He turned around to the Weasleys, who were looking utterly bewildered. "Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts. He disappeared after leaving the school traveled far and wide sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable. Hardly anyone connected Lord

“是这本日记。”哈利赶紧说，把它捡起来拿给邓布利多看。 “里德尔十六岁时写的....” 邓布利多从哈利手中接过日记本，从他那长长的歪鼻子上敏锐地凝视着那烧焦的、湿透的书页。 “太棒了。”他轻声说。 “当然，他可能是霍格沃茨有史以来最聪明的学生。” 他转向韦斯莱一家，他们一脸迷惑。 “很少有人知道伏地魔曾经叫汤姆·里德尔。 五十年前，我在霍格沃茨亲自教过他。 他离开学校后就消失了，四处游荡，深深沉迷于黑魔法，与我们同类中最坏的人为伍，经历了那么多危险的魔法转变，当他以伏地魔的身份重新出现时，几乎认不出来了。 几乎没有人认为

Voldemort with the clever, handsome boy who was once Head Boy here." "But, Ginny," said Mrs. Weasley. "What's our Ginny got to do with with him?" "His d-diary!" Ginny sobbed. "I've b-been writing in it, and he's been w-writing back all year—" "Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. Why didn't you show the diary to me, or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic—" "I d-didn't know," sobbed Ginny. "I found it inside one of the books Mum got me. I th-thought someone had just left it in there and forgotten about it—" "Miss Weasley should go up to the hospital wing right away," Dumbledore interrupted in a

伏地魔和一个聪明、英俊的男孩在一起，他曾经是这里的学生会主席。” “可是，金妮。”韦斯莱夫人说。 “我们的金妮跟他有什么关系？”“他d-diary !”金妮抽泣着。 “我——我一直在——在上面写，他一整年都在——”“金妮！” “我没有教过你什么吗？” 我一直跟你说什么来着？ 永远不要相信任何能独立思考的东西，如果你看不到它的大脑藏在哪里。 你为什么不把日记给我或你母亲看？ 这么可疑的东西，显然充满了黑魔法——”“我——我不知道。”金妮抽泣着说。 “我在妈妈给我的一本书里找到的。 我——我以为有人把它忘在那儿了——”“韦斯莱小姐应该马上到医院去。”邓布利多打断了他的话