14 The Unforgivable Curses

—CHAPTER FOURTEEN— The Unforgivable Curses The next two days passed without great incident, unless you counted Neville melting his sixth cauldron in Potions. Professor Snape, who seemed to have attained new levels of vindictiveness over the summer, gave Neville detention, and Neville returned from it in a state of nervous collapse, having been made to disembowel a barrelful of horned toads. 'You know why Snape's in such a foul mood, don't you?' said Ron to Harry, as they watched Hermione teaching Neville a Scouring Charm to remove the toad guts from under his fingernails.

第十四章不可饶恕的魔咒接下来的两天没有发生什么大事，除非纳威在魔药课上融化了他的第六个坩埚。 今年夏天，斯内普教授的报复心似乎达到了新的高度，他把纳威关禁闭了。纳威被勒令把一桶角蟾蜍的内脏掏出来，精神崩溃了。 “你知道斯内普为什么心情这么坏，是不是？”罗恩对哈利说，这时他们正看着赫敏教纳威一个清除咒，可以清除他指甲里的蟾蜍内脏。

'Yeah,' said Harry. 'Moody.' It was common knowledge that Snape really wanted the Dark Arts job, and he had now failed to get it for the fourth year running. Snape had disliked all of their previous Dark Arts teachers, and shown it– but he seemed strangely wary of displaying overt animosity to Mad-Eye Moody. Indeed, whenever Harry saw the two of them together– at mealtimes, or when they passed in the corridors– he had the distinct impression that Snape was avoiding Moody's eye, whether magical or normal. 'I reckon Snape's a bit scared of him, you know,' Harry said thoughtfully. 'Imagine if Moody turned Snape into a horned toad,' said Ron, his eyes misting over, 'and bounced him all around his dungeon…' The Gryffindor fourth-years were looking forward to Moody's first lesson so much that they arrived early after lunch on Thursday and queued up outside his classroom before the bell had even rung.

“是啊。”哈利说。“喜怒无常”。大家都知道斯内普很想当黑魔法老师，而他已经连续四年没能得到这个职位了。 斯内普不喜欢他们以前所有的黑魔法老师，而且表现出来了——但奇怪的是，他似乎对疯眼汉穆迪表现出了公开的敌意。 事实上，每当哈利看到他们俩在一起——吃饭的时候，或者他们在走廊里走过——他都清楚地感觉到，斯内普在避开穆迪的眼睛，无论是魔法的还是正常的。 “我想斯内普有点怕他，你知道。”哈利若有所思地说。 “想象一下，如果穆迪把斯内普变成一只长角的癞蛤蟆，”罗恩说，眼睛里充满了泪水，“把他在地牢里蹦来蹦去……”格兰芬多的四年级学生非常期待穆迪的第一节课，星期四午饭后他们早早就到了，上课铃还没响就在他的教室外面排起了队。

The only person missing was Hermione, who turned up just in time for the lesson. 'Been in the–' '–library,' Harry finished her sentence for her. 'C'mon, quick, or we won't get decent seats.' They hurried into three chairs right in front of the teacher's desk, took out their copies of The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection, and waited, unusually quiet. Soon they heard Moody's distinctive clunking footsteps coming down the corridor, and he entered the room, looking as strange and frightening as ever. They could just see his clawed, wooden foot protruding from underneath his robes. 'You can put those away,' he growled, stumping over to his desk and sitting down, 'those books. You won't need them.' They returned the books to their bags, Ron looking excited. Moody took out a register, shook his long mane of grizzled grey hair out of his twisted and scarred face and began to call out names, his normal eye moving steadily down the list while his magical

唯一没来的是赫敏，她正好赶上上课时间。 “在——图书馆。”哈利替她把话说完。 “快点，不然我们就找不到合适的座位了。”他们赶紧坐在讲台前的三把椅子上，拿出各自的《黑暗力量：自我保护指南》，等待着，异常安静。 不一会，他们就听见穆迪那独特的、沉重的脚步声从走廊上传来，他走进了房间，看上去还是那么奇怪、可怕。 他们只能看到他的爪子，木脚从长袍下面伸出来。 “你可以把那些书收起来，”他咆哮着，迈着沉重的步子走到书桌前，坐了下来，“那些书。 你不需要它们。”他们把书放回书包，罗恩显得很兴奋。 穆迪拿出一份登记簿，把花白的长头发从扭曲的、伤痕累累的脸上抖了抖，开始点名，他那正常的眼睛在名单上稳定地扫视着，同时他的魔法

eye swivelled around, fixing upon each student as he or she answered. 'Right then,' he said, when the last person had declared themselves present, 'I've had a letter from Professor Lupin about this class. Seems you've had a pretty thorough grounding in tackling Dark creatures– you've covered Boggarts, Red Caps, Hinkypunks, Grindylows, Kappas and werewolves, is that right?' There was a general murmur of assent. 'But you're behind– very behind– on dealing with curses,' said Moody. 'So I'm here to bring you up to scratch on what wizards can do to each other. I've got one year to teach you how to deal with Dark–' 'What, aren't you staying?' Ron blurted out. Moody's magical eye spun around to stare at Ron; Ron looked extremely apprehensive, but after a moment Moody smiled– the first time Harry had seen him do so. ikcjeo. The effect was to make his heavily scarred face look more twisted and contorted than ever, but it was nevertheless a relief

他或她回答的时候，眼睛四处转动，盯着每个学生。 “好了，”当最后一个人宣布到场后，他说，“我收到卢平教授关于这门课的一封信。 看来你在对付黑魔法生物方面打下了相当扎实的基础——你对付过博格特、红帽子、欣克庞克、格林迪洛、卡帕和狼人，对吗？”大家都低声表示同意。 “可是你在对付魔咒方面落后了——落后了很多。”穆迪说。 “所以我来这里是为了让你从头开始了解巫师会对彼此做些什么。 我有一年的时间教你如何对付黑——”“怎么，你不留下来吗？”罗恩脱口而出。 穆迪那只带魔法的眼睛转过来盯着罗恩。罗恩显得非常担心，但过了一会儿穆迪笑了——这是哈利第一次看到他笑。 效果是使他那张伤痕累累的脸看起来比以前更加扭曲和扭曲，但这仍然是一种解脱

to know that he ever did anything as friendly as smile. Ron looked deeply relieved. 'You'll be Arthur Weasley's son, eh?' Moody said. 'Your father got me out of a very tight corner a few days ago… yeah, I'm staying just the one year. Special favour to Dumbledore… one year, and then back to my quiet retirement.' He gave a harsh laugh, and then clapped his gnarled hands together. 'So– straight into it. Curses. They come in many strengths and forms. Now, according to the Ministry of Magic, I'm supposed to teach you counter-curses and leave it at that. I'm not supposed to show you what illegal Dark curses look like until you're in the sixth year. You're not supposed to be old enough to deal with it 'til then. But Professor Dumbledore's got a higher opinion of your nerves, he reckons you can cope, and I say, the sooner you know what you're up against, the better. How are you supposed to defend yourself against something you've never seen? A wizard who's about to put an illegal curse on you isn't going to tell you what he's about to do. He's

知道他曾经做过像微笑一样友好的事情。 罗恩看上去松了一口气。 “你是亚瑟·韦斯莱的儿子，嗯？”穆迪说。 “几天前，你父亲帮我摆脱了困境……是的，我只待一年。” 给邓布利多特别的恩惠……一年，然后我就安安静静地退休了。”他发出一声刺耳的笑声，然后拍了拍他那粗糙的双手。 “那么——直接说。诅咒。 它们有许多长处和形式。 根据魔法部的规定，我应该教你们解咒，到此为止。 在你上六年级之前，我不应该告诉你非法的黑咒是什么样子的。 在那之前，你还没到可以处理这些事的年龄。 但是邓布利多教授对你的神经很有评价，他认为你能应付，我说，你越早知道你面对的是什么，越好。 面对从未见过的东西，你该如何保护自己？ 一个要对你施非法诅咒的巫师是不会告诉你他要做什么的。 他是

not going to do it nice and polite to your face. You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking.' Lavender jumped and blushed. She had been showing Parvati her completed horoscope under the desk. Apparently Moody's magical eye could see through solid wood, as well as out of the back of his head. 'So… do any of you know which curses are most heavily punished by wizarding law?' Several hands rose tentatively into the air, including Ron's and Hermione's. Moody pointed at Ron, though his magical eye was still fixed on Lavender. 'Er,' said Ron tentatively, 'my dad told me about one… is it called the Imperius Curse, or something?' 'Ah, yes,' said Moody appreciatively. 'Your father would know that one. Gave the Ministry a lot of trouble at one time, the Imperius Curse.' Moody got heavily to his mismatched feet, opened his desk drawer, and took out a glass jar.

我不会当着你的面礼貌地说。 你需要做好准备。你需要保持警惕和警惕。 布朗小姐，我说话的时候你得把它收起来。”拉文德跳了起来，脸红了。 她一直在桌子底下给帕瓦蒂看她完成的占星术。 显然，穆迪那只带魔法的眼睛既能透过他的后脑勺，也能透过实木看东西。 “那么……你们谁知道巫师法对哪些咒语的惩罚最严厉？”几个人试探性地举了起来，包括罗恩和赫敏的手。 穆迪指着罗恩，但他那只带魔法的眼睛仍然盯着拉文德。 “嗯，”罗恩试探地说，“我爸爸告诉过我一个……是叫夺魂咒还是什么？”“啊，是的。”穆迪赞赏地说。 “你父亲会知道的。 夺魂咒一度给魔法部惹了不少麻烦。”穆迪吃力地站起身来，打开书桌抽屉，拿出一个玻璃罐子。