14 Snape’s Grudge

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Snape's Grudge No one in Gryffindor Tower slept that night. They knew that the castle was being searched again, and the whole house stayed awake in the common room, waiting to hear whether Black had been caught. Professor McGonagall came back at dawn, to tell them that he had again escaped. Everywhere they went next day they saw signs of tighter security; Professor Flitwick could be seen teaching the front doors to recognise a large picture of Sirius Black; Filch was suddenly bustling up and down the corridors, boarding up everything from tiny cracks in the walls to mouse holes. Sir Cadogan had been sacked. His portrait had been taken back to its lonely landing on the

第十四章斯内普的怨恨那天晚上格兰芬多塔楼里没有人睡觉。 他们知道城堡又被搜查了，整个房子的人都在公共休息室里醒着，等着知道布莱克是否被抓住了。 黎明时分，麦格教授回来了，告诉他们哈利又逃走了。 第二天，他们所到之处都看到了加强安全的迹象;可以看到弗立维教授在教前门辨认小天狼星布莱克的大幅照片；费尔奇突然在走廊里跑来跑去，用木板堵住一切东西，从墙上的小裂缝到老鼠洞。 卡多根爵士被解雇了。 他的肖像被带回到那孤独的平台上

seventh floor, and the Fat Lady was back. She had been expertly restored, but was still extremely nervous, and had only agreed to return to her job on condition that she was given extra protection. A bunch of surly security trolls had been hired to guard her. They paced the corridor in a menacing group, talking in grunts and comparing the size of their clubs. Harry couldn't help noticing that the statue of the one-eyed witch on the third floor remained unguarded and unblocked. It seemed that Fred and George had been right in thinking that they–and now Harry, Ron and Hermione–were the only ones who knew about the hidden passageway within it. 'D'you reckon we should tell someone?' Harry asked Ron. 'We know he's not coming in through Honeydukes,' said Ron dismissively. 'We'd've heard if the shop had been broken into.' Harry was glad Ron took this view. If the oneeyed witch was boarded up too, he would never be able to go into Hogsmeade again.

七楼，胖夫人回来了。 她经过专业的修复，但仍然非常紧张，只有在给予额外保护的条件下才同意回去工作。 雇了一群粗暴的保安来保护她。 他们在走廊里威吓地踱来踱去，咕哝着说话，比较着手里棍棒的大小。 哈利不禁注意到，三楼的独眼女巫雕像仍然没有人看守，也没有被堵住。 弗雷德和乔治认为，只有他们——现在是哈利、罗恩和赫敏——知道里面有一条隐藏的通道，他们的想法似乎是对的。 “你觉得我们应该告诉什么人吗？”哈利问罗恩。 “我们知道他不是通过蜂蜜公爵进来的。”罗恩轻蔑地说。 “如果商店被人破门而入，我们会听到的。”哈利很高兴罗恩持这种观点。 如果独眼女巫也被用木板封起来，他就再也进不了霍格莫德村了。

Ron had become an instant celebrity. For the first time in his life, people were paying more attention to him than to Harry, and it was clear that Ron was rather enjoying the experience. Though still severely shaken by the night's events, he was happy to tell anyone who asked, what had happened, with a wealth of detail. '…I was asleep, and I heard this ripping noise, and I thought it was in my dream, you know? But then there was this draught… I woke up and one side of the hangings on my bed had been pulled down… I rolled over… and I saw him standing over me… like a skeleton, with loads of filthy hair… holding this great long knife, must've been twelve inches… and he looked at me, and I looked at him, and then I yelled, and he scarpered. 'Why, though?' Ron added to Harry, as the group of second-year girls who had been listening to his chilling tale departed. 'Why did he scarper?' Harry had been wondering the same thing. Why had Black, having got the wrong bed, not silenced Ron and proceeded to Harry? Black had proved twelve years ago that he didn't mind murdering

罗恩一下子成了名人。 这是他平生第一次，人们对他的关注超过了对哈利的关注，显然罗恩很享受这段经历。 虽然他仍然为昨晚发生的事情感到震惊，但他很高兴地告诉任何人发生了什么，并提供了大量的细节。 “我正在睡觉，然后我听到了撕裂的声音，我以为是在梦里，你知道吗？” “但是突然一阵狂风……我醒了过来，我床上的窗帘的一边被扯了下来……我翻了个身……我看见他站在我身边……像一具骷髅，满头肮脏的头发……手里拿着一把很大的长刀，大概有12英寸长……他看着我，我看着他，然后我大喊一声，他就跑开了。” “为什么呢?”罗恩对哈利说，那群一直在听他讲故事的二年级女生走了。 “他为什么逃走？”哈利也一直在想同样的事情。 布莱克走错了床，为什么不让罗恩闭嘴，然后去找哈利呢？ 布莱克十二年前就证明了他不介意杀人

innocent people, and this time he had been facing five unarmed boys, four of whom were asleep. 'He must've known he'd have a job getting back out of the castle once you'd yelled and woken people up,' said Harry thoughtfully. 'He'd've had to kill the whole house to get back through the portrait hole… then he would've met the teachers…' Neville was in total disgrace. Professor McGonagall was so furious with him she had banned him from all future Hogsmeade visits, given him a detention and forbidden anyone to give him the password into the Tower. Poor Neville was forced to wait outside the common room every night for somebody to let him in, while the security trolls leered unpleasantly at him. None of these punishments, however, came close to matching the one his grandmother had in store for him. Two days after Black's break-in, she sent Neville the very worst thing a Hogwarts student could receive over breakfast–a Howler. The school owls swooped into the Great Hall, carrying the post as usual, and Neville choked as a

无辜的人，这次他面对的是五个手无寸铁的男孩，其中四个还在睡觉。 “他一定知道，一旦你大叫把人吵醒，他就很难从城堡里出来了。”哈利若有所思地说。 “他必须杀死整个房子的人，才能从肖像洞口回去……然后他就会遇到老师们……”纳威完全丢脸了。 麦格教授对他大发雷霆，禁止他以后再去霍格莫德村，罚他关禁闭，还禁止任何人把进入塔楼的密码告诉他。 可怜的纳威每天晚上都被迫在公共休息室外面等着有人让他进去，而保安巨怪则不愉快地向他抛媚眼。 然而，这些惩罚都比不上他祖母为他准备的惩罚。 布莱克闯入两天后，她给纳威送来了霍格沃茨学生早饭时能收到的最糟糕的东西——一封吼叫信。 学校的猫头鹰像往常一样飞进了礼堂，扛着信，纳威呛得要命

huge barn owl landed in front of him, a scarlet envelope clutched in its beak. Harry and Ron, who were sitting opposite him, recognised the letter as a Howler at once–Ron had got one from his mother the year before. 'Run for it, Neville,' Ron advised. Neville didn't need telling twice. He seized the envelope and, holding it before him like a bomb, sprinted out of the Hall, while the Slytherin table exploded with laughter at the sight of him. They heard the Howler go off in the Entrance Hall–Neville's grandmother's voice, magically magnified to a hundred times its usual volume, shrieking about how he had brought shame on the whole family. Harry was too busy feeling sorry for Neville to notice immediately that he had a letter, too. Hedwig got his attention by nipping him sharply on the wrist. 'Ouch! Oh–thanks, Hedwig…' Harry tore open the envelope while Hedwig helped herself to some of Neville's cornflakes. The note inside said:

一只巨大的谷仓猫头鹰降落在他面前，嘴里叼着一个鲜红色的信封。 坐在他对面的哈利和罗恩立刻认出这是一封吼叫信——罗恩一年前从他母亲那里收到过一封。 “快跑，纳威。”罗恩建议道。 纳威不需要再说两遍。 他抓起信封，像拿炸弹一样把它举在面前，飞快地冲出礼堂，斯莱特林的桌子上的人一看到他就哄堂大笑。 他们听见那封吼叫信从门厅里发出来了——纳威祖母的声音被魔法放大了一百倍，尖叫着说他给全家蒙羞。 哈利忙着为纳威感到难过，没有立刻注意到他也有一封信。 海德薇狠狠地咬了一下他的手腕，引起了他的注意。 “哎哟!”哦——谢谢，海德薇……”哈利撕开信封，海德薇自己拿了一些纳威的玉米片。 里面的字条写道：

Dear Harry and Ron, How about having tea with me this evening round six? I'll come and collect you from the castle. WAIT FOR ME IN THE ENTRANCE HALL, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED OUT ON YOUR OWN. Cheers, Hagrid 'He probably wants to hear all about Black!' said Ron. So at six o'clock that evening, Harry and Ron left Gryffindor Tower, passed the security trolls at a run, and headed down to the Entrance Hall. Hagrid was already waiting for them. 'All right, Hagrid!' said Ron. 'S'pose you want to hear about Saturday night, do you?' 'I've already heard all abou' it,' said Hagrid, opening the front doors and leading them outside. 'Oh,' said Ron, looking slightly put out.

亲爱的哈利和罗恩：今晚六点左右和我一起喝茶怎么样？ 我会去城堡接你。 在门厅等我，你不能单独出去。 干杯，海格。他可能想听听布莱克的事！罗恩说。 于是，那天晚上六点钟，哈利和罗恩离开格兰芬多塔楼，跑着越过保安巨怪，朝门厅走去。 海格已经在等他们了。 “好吧，海格！”罗恩说。 “我想你想听听星期六晚上的事，是吗？”“我早就听说了。”海格说着打开前门，把他们领了出去。 “哦。”罗恩说，看上去有点生气。