3 The Burrow

CHAPTER THREE THE BURROW Ron!" breathed Harry, creeping to the window and pushing it up so they could talk through the bars. "Ron, how did you What the—?" Harry's mouth fell open as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him. Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old turquoise car, which was parked in midair. Grinning at Harry from the

第三章陋居罗恩！”哈利喘着气说，蹑手蹑脚地走到窗前，把它推高，这样他们就可以隔着栏杆说话了。 “罗恩，你怎么……？”哈利被眼前的景象深深震撼了一下，张大了嘴巴。 罗恩从一辆停在半空中的青绿色旧汽车的后窗探出头来。 朝哈利咧嘴一笑

front seats were Fred and George, Ron's elder twin brothers. "All right, Harry?" asked George. "What's been going on?" said Ron. "Why haven't you been answering my letters? I've asked you to stay about twelve times, and then Dad came home and said you'd got an official warning for using magic in front of Muggles—" "It wasn't me and how did he know?" "He works for the Ministry," said Ron. "You know we're not supposed to do spells outside school—" "You should talk," said Harry, staring at the floating car. "Oh, this doesn't count," said Ron. "We're only borrowing this. It's Dad's, we didn't enchant it. But doing magic in front of those Muggles you live with—" "I told you, I didn't but it'll take too long to explain now look, can you tell them at

前排坐着弗雷德和乔治，罗恩的孪生哥哥。 “怎么样，哈利？”乔治问。 “发生了什么事？”罗恩说。 “你为什么一直不给我回信？” 我请你留下来大概有十二次了，后来爸爸回来了，说你因为在麻瓜面前使用魔法而受到正式警告——”“不是我，他怎么知道的？”“他在魔法部工作。”罗恩说。 “你应该说话。”哈利盯着那辆漂浮的汽车说。 “哦，这个不算。”罗恩说。 “我们只是借这个。 这是爸爸的，我们没有施魔法。 但是在和你一起住的麻瓜面前施魔法——”“我告诉过你，我没有，但是解释太费时间了，你能告诉他们

Hogwarts that the Dursleys have locked me up and won't let me come back, and obviously I can't magic myself out, because the Ministry'll think that's the second spell I've done in three days, so—" "Stop gibbering," said Ron. "We've come to take you home with us." "But you can't magic me out either—" "We don't need to," said Ron, jerking his head toward the front seat and grinning. "You forget who I've got with me." "Tie that around the bars," said Fred, throwing the end of a rope to Harry. "If the Dursleys wake up, I'm dead," said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred revved up the car. "Don't worry," said Fred, "and stand back." Harry moved back into the shadows next to Hedwig, who seemed to have realized how important this was and kept still and silent. The

霍格沃茨，德思礼一家把我关了起来，不让我回来，显然我自己也施不了魔法，因为魔法部会认为这是我三天内施的第二个魔咒，所以——” “我们是来带你回家的。” “我们不需要。”罗恩说着，把头朝前座扭了扭，咧嘴笑了。 “你忘了和我在一起的是谁。” “把它系在栏杆上。”弗雷德说着，把一根绳子的一端扔给哈利。 “如果德思礼一家醒来，我就死定了。”哈利一边说，一边把绳子紧紧地系在一根栏杆上，弗雷德发动了汽车。 “别担心，”弗雷德说，“往后站。” 哈利回到阴影里，靠近海德薇，她似乎已经意识到这有多重要，仍然保持沉默。 的

car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a crunching noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air. Harry ran back to the window to see the bars dangling a few feet above the ground. Panting, Ron hoisted them up into the car. Harry listened anxiously, but there was no sound from the Dursleys' bedroom. When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred reversed as close as possible to Harry's window. "Get in," Ron said. "But all my Hogwarts stuff my wand my broomstick—" "Where is it?" "Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can't get out of this room—" "No problem," said George from the front passenger seat. "Out of the way, Harry."

汽车的转速越来越大，突然，随着一声嘎吱嘎吱的声音，车窗上的栏杆被掀得干干净净，弗雷德把车直冲到空中。 哈利跑回窗前，看见栏杆悬在离地面几英尺的地方。 罗恩气喘吁吁地把他们抬上车。 哈利焦急地听着，但德思礼家的卧室里一点声音也没有。 当铁条和罗恩一起安全地坐到后座上后，弗雷德把车倒到离哈利的窗户尽可能近的地方。 “上车。”罗恩说。“可是我所有的霍格沃茨的东西，我的魔杖，我的飞天扫帚——”“在哪儿？”“锁在楼梯下的碗柜里，我出不去这个房间——”“没问题。”乔治坐在副驾驶座位上说。 “让开，哈利。”

Fred and George climbed catlike through the window into Harry's room. You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary hairpin from his pocket and started to pick the lock. "A lot of wizards think it's a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick," said Fred, "but we feel they're skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow." There was a small click and the door swung open. "So we'll get your trunk you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron," whispered George. "Watch out for the bottom stair it creaks," Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark landing. Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron. Then he went to help Fred and George heave

弗雷德和乔治像猫一样从窗户爬进了哈利的房间。 “你必须把它交给他们，”哈利想，乔治从口袋里掏出一个普通的发夹，开始撬锁。 “很多巫师都认为学麻瓜的这种把戏是浪费时间，”弗雷德说，“但我们觉得这是一种值得学习的技能，尽管有些慢。” 咔哒一声，门开了。 “我们去拿你的箱子，你从房间里拿点你需要的东西给罗恩。”乔治小声说。 “小心最下面的楼梯，它吱嘎作响。”哈利小声回答，孪生兄弟消失在黑暗的楼梯平台上。 哈利在房间里跑来跑去，收拾东西，从窗口递给罗恩。 然后他去帮弗雷德和乔治搬东西

his trunk up the stairs. Harry heard Uncle Vernon cough. At last, panting, they reached the landing, then carried the trunk through Harry's room to the open window. Fred climbed back into the car to pull with Ron, and Harry and George pushed from the bedroom side. Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window. Uncle Vernon coughed again. "A bit more," panted Fred, who was pulling from inside the car. "One good push—" Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car. "Okay, let's go," George whispered. But as Harry climbed onto the windowsill there came a sudden loud screech from behind him, followed immediately by the thunder of Uncle Vernon's voice. "THAT RUDDY OWL!"

他把箱子搬到楼上。哈利听见弗农姨父咳嗽了。 最后，他们气喘吁吁地走到楼梯口，把箱子从哈利的房间搬到开着的窗前。 弗雷德爬回车里，和罗恩一起拉着车，哈利和乔治从卧室那边推着车。 一寸一寸地，箱子滑出了窗户。 弗农姨父又咳嗽了一声。 “再来一点。”弗雷德喘着气说，他正从车里拉车。 哈利和乔治用肩膀顶着箱子，箱子滑出了车窗，落在了汽车后座上。 “好吧，我们走吧。”乔治小声说。 哈利刚爬上窗台，身后突然传来一声尖叫，紧接着是弗农姨父雷鸣般的怒吼。 “那只该死的猫头鹰！”