4 At Flourish and Blotts

CHAPTER FOUR AT FLOURISH AND BLOTTS Life at the Burrow was as different as possible from life on Privet Drive. The Dursleys liked everything neat and ordered; the Weasleys' house burst with the strange and unexpected. Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the kitchen mantelpiece and it shouted, "Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!" The

第四章在丽痕庄园陋居的生活与女贞路的生活截然不同。 德思礼一家喜欢一切都整洁有序；韦斯莱家突然发生了奇怪而意想不到的事情。 哈利第一次照镜子时，吓了一跳，镜子在喊道：“把衬衫塞好，邋遢鬼！”的

ghoul in the attic howled and dropped pipes whenever he felt things were getting too quiet, and small explosions from Fred and George's bedroom were considered perfectly normal. What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron's, however, wasn't the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul: It was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him. Mrs. Weasley fussed over the state of his socks and tried to force him to eat fourth helpings at every meal. Mr. Weasley liked Harry to sit next to him at the dinner table so that he could bombard him with questions about life with Muggles, asking him to explain how things like plugs and the postal service worked. "Fascinating!" he would say as Harry talked him through using a telephone. "Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic."

阁楼上的食尸鬼每当觉得太安静时就会嚎叫，掉下水管，弗雷德和乔治卧室里的小爆炸声也被认为是再正常不过的事。 然而，哈利觉得罗恩家的生活最不寻常的不是会说话的镜子，也不是叮当作响的食尸鬼，而是那里的每个人似乎都喜欢他。 韦斯莱夫人对他袜子的状况大惊小怪，还强迫他每顿饭都吃第四份。 韦斯莱先生喜欢哈利在饭桌上坐在他旁边，这样他就可以不停地问他关于麻瓜生活的问题，让他解释一下插头和邮政服务是如何运作的。 “太棒了！”哈利告诉他如何使用电话时，他会说。 “真是天才，麻瓜们想出了多少不用魔法的办法啊。”

Harry heard from Hogwarts one sunny morning about a week after he had arrived at the Burrow. He and Ron went down to breakfast to find Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Ginny already sitting at the kitchen table. The moment she saw Harry, Ginny accidentally knocked her porridge bowl to the floor with a loud clatter. Ginny seemed very prone to knocking things over whenever Harry entered a room. She dived under the table to retrieve the bowl and emerged with her face glowing like the setting sun. Pretending he hadn't noticed this, Harry sat down and took the toast Mrs. Weasley offered him. "Letters from school," said Mr. Weasley, passing Harry and Ron identical envelopes of yellowish parchment, addressed in green ink. "Dumbledore already knows you're here, Harry doesn't miss a trick, that man. You two've got them, too," he added, as Fred and George ambled in, still in their pajamas.

哈利来到陋居大约一个星期后的一个晴朗的早晨收到了霍格沃茨的来信。 他和罗恩下楼吃早饭，发现韦斯莱夫妇和金妮已经坐在厨房的桌子旁了。 金妮一看见哈利，就不小心把她的粥碗碰在地上，发出一声巨响。 每当哈利走进房间，金妮似乎就很容易把东西打翻。 她钻到桌子底下去拿碗，出来时脸上容光焕发，像夕阳一样。 哈利假装没有注意到这一点，坐了下来，接过韦斯莱夫人递给他的祝酒。 “学校来的信。”韦斯莱先生递给哈利和罗恩两个一模一样的淡黄色羊皮纸信封，上面用绿墨水写着地址。 “邓布利多已经知道你在这里，哈利不会错过任何机会的，那个人。 你们俩也有。”他补充道，这时弗雷德和乔治还穿着睡衣慢悠悠地走了进来。

For a few minutes there was silence as they all read their letters. Harry's told him to catch the Hogwarts Express as usual from King's Cross station on September first. There was also a list of the new books he'd need for the coming year. ikcjeo. SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE: The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 by Miranda Goshawk Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart Wanderings with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart Fred, who had finished his own list, peered over at Harry's.

大家读着各自的信，沉默了几分钟。 哈利告诉他九月一日像往常一样从国王十字车站赶霍格沃茨特快列车。 还有一张他来年需要的新书清单。 二年级学生要求：《标准咒语（二年级）》，Miranda Goshawk与女妖分手吉德罗洛哈特与食尸鬼一起游荡吉德罗洛哈特与食人妖一起旅行吉德罗洛哈特与吸血鬼一起旅行吉德罗洛哈特与狼人一起流浪吉德罗洛哈特与雪人一起生活弗雷德已经完成了自己的单子，他朝哈利的单子上望了一眼。

"You've been told to get all Lockhart's books, too!" he said. "The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher must be a fan bet it's a witch." At this point, Fred caught his mother's eye and quickly busied himself with the marmalade. "That lot won't come cheap," said George, with a quick look at his parents. "Lockhart's books are really expensive...." "Well, we'll manage," said Mrs. Weasley, but she looked worried. "I expect we'll be able to pick up a lot of Ginny's things secondhand." "Oh, are you starting at Hogwarts this year?" Harry asked Ginny. She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Fortunately no one saw this except Harry, because just then Ron's elder brother Percy walked in. He was already dressed, his Hogwarts prefect badge pinned to his sweater vest.

“他们叫你把洛哈特所有的书也带走！”他说。 “新来的黑魔法防御术课老师一定是他的粉丝，肯定是个女巫。” 这时，弗雷德引起了妈妈的注意，赶紧忙着做橘子酱。 “那批货可不便宜。”乔治说，匆匆看了他的父母一眼。 “洛哈特的书真的很贵....” “好吧，我们会想办法的。”韦斯莱夫人说，但她看上去很担心。 “我想金妮的很多东西我们都能买到。” “哦，你今年要去霍格沃茨上学吗？”哈利问金妮。 她点了点头，火红的发根都涨红了，把胳膊肘放在黄油盘子里。 幸好除了哈利没有人看见，因为就在这时，罗恩的哥哥珀西走了进来。 他已经穿好了衣服，他的霍格沃茨级长徽章别在毛衣背心上。

"Morning, all," said Percy briskly. "Lovely day." He sat down in the only remaining chair but leapt up again almost immediately, pulling from underneath him a molting, gray feather duster at least, that was what Harry thought it was, until he saw that it was breathing. "Errol!" said Ron, taking the limp owl from Percy and extracting a letter from under its wing. "Finally he's got Hermione's answer. I wrote to her saying we were going to try and rescue you from the Dursleys." He carried Errol to a perch just inside the back door and tried to stand him on it, but Errol flopped straight off again so Ron laid him on the draining board instead, muttering, "Pathetic." Then he ripped open Hermione's letter and read it out loud: "'Dear Ron, and Harry if you're there, "'I hope everything went all right and that Harry is okay and that you didn't do anything

“大家早上好。”珀西轻快地说。 “可爱的一天。”他在仅剩的那把椅子上坐了下来，但几乎立刻又跳了起来，从身下抽出一把正在蜕皮的灰色鸡毛掸子，哈利以为那是一把，直到他看到它在呼吸。 “埃罗尔！”罗恩说，从珀西手里接过那只软弱无力的猫头鹰，从它的翅膀底下抽出一封信。 他终于得到了赫敏的回答。 我给她写信说，我们要设法把你从德思礼家救出来。” 他把埃罗尔抱到后门里面的一根栖木上，想让他站在上面，但埃罗尔又直接摔倒了，罗恩只好把他放在排水板上，嘴里嘟囔着：“可怜。” 然后他撕开赫敏的信，大声读了起来：“亲爱的罗恩，还有哈利，如果你在的话。”“我希望一切都好，哈利没事，你什么也没做。