19 The Hungarian Horntail

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Hungarian Horntail The prospect of talking face to face with Sirius was all that sustained Harry over the next fortnight, the only bright spot on a horizon that had never looked darker. The shock of finding himself school champion had worn off slightly now, and the fear of what was facing him was starting to sink in. The first task was drawing steadily nearer; he felt as though it was crouching ahead of him like some horrific monster, barring his path. He had never suffered nerves like these; they were way beyond anything he had felt before a Quidditch match, not even his last one against

第十九章匈牙利树蜂在接下来的两个星期里，哈利唯一的动力就是能和小天狼星面对面地交谈，这是地平线上从未如此黑暗过的唯一的亮点。 发现自己是学校的勇士，这种震惊现在已经稍微消退了，他开始对即将面临的事情感到恐惧。 第一个任务越来越近了；他觉得它就像一个可怕的怪物蹲在他前面，挡住了他的去路。 他从来没有这样紧张过；这是他在魁地奇比赛前从未有过的感觉，甚至在他最后一场比赛之前也没有过

Slytherin, which had decided who would win the Quidditch Cup. Harry was finding it hard to think about the future at all, he felt as if his whole life had been leading up to, and would finish with, the first task… Admittedly, he didn't see how Sirius was going to make him feel any better about having to perform an unknown piece of difficult and dangerous magic in front of hundreds of people, but the mere sight of a friendly face would be something at the moment. Harry wrote back to Sirius, saying that he would be beside the common-room fire at the time Sirius had suggested, and he and Hermione spent a long time going over plans for forcing any stragglers out of the common room on the night in question. If the worst came to the worst, they were going to drop a bag of Dungbombs, but they hoped they wouldn't have to resort to that– Filch would skin them alive. In the meantime, life became even worse for Harry within the confines of the castle, for Rita Skeeter had published her piece about the

斯莱特林队已经决定了谁将赢得魁地奇杯。 哈利觉得自己很难想象未来，他觉得自己的一生都在为第一个项目做准备，并将以第一个项目结束……无可否认，面对要在几百人面前表演一种未知的、困难而危险的魔法，他看不出小天狼星能给他带来什么安慰，但此刻只要看到一张友好的脸就够了。 哈利给小天狼星写了回信，说他会在小天狼星建议的时间守候在公共休息室的火炉旁。他和赫敏花了很长时间研究在那天晚上把任何逃课的人赶出公共休息室的计划。 如果实在不行，他们就扔一袋大粪炸弹，但他们希望不用这么做——费尔奇会活活剥了他们的皮。 与此同时，哈利在城堡里的生活变得更糟了，因为丽塔·斯基特发表了一篇关于

Triwizard Tournament, and it had turned out to be not so much a report on the Tournament, as a highly coloured life story of Harry. Much of the front page had been given over to a picture of Harry; the article (continuing on pages two, six and seven) had been all about Harry, the names of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang champions (misspelled) had been squashed into the last line of the article, and Cedric hadn't been mentioned at all. The article had appeared ten days ago, and Harry still got a sick, burning feeling of shame in his stomach every time he thought about it. Rita Skeeter had reported him saying an awful lot of things that he couldn't remember ever saying in his life, let alone in that broom cupboard. 'I suppose I get my strength from my parents, I know they'd be very proud of me if they could see me now… yes, sometimes at night I still cry about them, I'm not ashamed to admit it… I know nothing will hurt me

三强争霸赛，结果与其说是一篇关于争霸赛的报道，不如说是哈利精彩的人生故事。 头版的大部分篇幅都被哈利的照片占据了。那篇文章（继续在第二、第六和第七页）都是关于哈利的，布斯巴顿和德姆斯特朗两位勇士的名字（拼写错误）被挤在文章的最后一行，塞德里克根本没有被提到。 那篇文章是十天前发表的，哈利每次想起它，心里仍然有一种难受的、灼灼的羞耻感。 丽塔·斯基特报告说，他说了很多他自己都不记得说过的话，更不用说在那个扫帚柜里说了。 “我想我从父母那里得到了力量，我知道如果他们能看到我现在的样子，他们会为我感到骄傲的……是的，有时候晚上我还会为他们哭泣，我并不羞于承认这一点……我知道没有什么能伤害我。

during the Tournament, because they're watching over me…' But Rita Skeeter had gone even further than transforming his 'er's into long, sickly sentences: she had interviewed other people about him, too. Harry has at last found love at Hogwarts. His close friend, Colin Creevey, says that Harry is rarely seen out of the company of one Hermione Granger, a stunningly pretty Muggle-born girl who, like Harry, is one of the top students in the school. From the moment the article appeared, Harry had to endure people– Slytherins, mainly– quoting it at him as he passed them, and making sneering comments. 'Want a hanky, Potter, in case you start crying in Transfiguration?' 'Since when have you been one of the top students in the school, Potter? ikcjeo. Or is this a school

但是丽塔·斯基特不仅把他的名字变成了长长的、令人作呕的句子，她还采访了其他人。 哈利终于在霍格沃茨找到了真爱。 他的密友科林·克里维说，哈利很少离开一个叫赫敏·格兰杰的人。赫敏是麻瓜出身的女孩，长得非常漂亮，和哈利一样，她也是学校里的尖子生之一。 从那篇文章发表的那一刻起，哈利就不得不忍受人们——主要是斯莱特林的人——在他经过他们的时候引用这篇文章，并对他进行嘲笑。 “要手帕吗，波特，万一你在变形课上哭呢？”“你什么时候成了学校的尖子生之一了，波特？” 或者这是一所学校

you and Longbottom have set up together?' 'Hey– Harry!' 'Yeah, that's right,' Harry found himself shouting, as he wheeled around in the corridor, having had just about enough. 'I've just been crying my eyes out over my dead mum, and I'm just off to do a bit more…' 'No– it was just– you dropped your quill.' It was Cho. Harry felt the colour rising in his face. 'Oh–right–sorry,' he muttered, taking the quill back. 'Er… good luck for Tuesday,' she said. 'I really hope you do well.' Which left Harry feeling extremely stupid. Hermione had come in for her fair share of unpleasantness, too, but she hadn't yet started yelling at innocent bystanders; in fact, Harry was full of admiration for the way she was handling the situation. 'Stunningly pretty? Her?' Pansy Parkinson had shrieked, the first time she had come face to face

你和隆巴顿在一起？“嘿——哈利！”“是啊，没错。”哈利发现自己在走廊里喊道，他已经受够了，转过身来。 “我刚刚为我死去的妈妈哭得稀里糊涂，我还想再去做点什么……”“不——只是——你的羽毛笔掉了。”是秋。 哈利感到脸上泛起了红晕。 “哦——对了，对不起。”他咕哝着，拿回了羽毛笔。 “嗯……祝你星期二好运。”她说。 “我真心希望你考得好。”这让哈利觉得自己非常愚蠢。 赫敏也受到了同样的不愉快，但她还没有开始对无辜的旁观者大喊大叫；事实上，哈利对她处理这件事的方式充满了钦佩。 “惊人的漂亮吗?她吗?”潘西·帕金森尖叫了一声，这是她第一次面对面

with Hermione after Rita's article had appeared. 'What was she judging against– a chipmunk?' 'Ignore it,' Hermione said in a dignified voice, holding her head in the air and stalking past the sniggering Slytherin girls as though she couldn't hear them. 'Just ignore it, Harry.' But Harry couldn't ignore it. Ron hadn't spoken to him at all since he had told him about Snape's detentions. Harry had half hoped they would make things up during the two hours they were forced to pickle rats' brains in Snape's dungeon, but that had been the day Rita's article had appeared, which seemed to have confirmed Ron's belief that Harry was really enjoying all the attention. Hermione was furious with the pair of them; she went from one to the other, trying to force them to talk to each other, but Harry was adamant: he would talk to Ron again only if Ron admitted that Harry hadn't put his name in the Goblet of Fire, and apologised for calling him a liar. 'I didn't start this,' Harry said stubbornly. 'It's his problem.'

丽塔的文章发表后，他和赫敏在一起。 “她在评判什么——一只花栗鼠吗？”“别理它。”赫敏威严地说，她昂着头，从窃笑的斯莱特林女生身边走过，好像没听见似的。 “别理它，哈利。”但是哈利不能忽视它。 自从他把斯内普关禁闭的事告诉罗恩以后，罗恩就再也没跟他说过话。 在斯内普的地下教室里被迫腌老鼠脑的那两个小时里，哈利本来有点希望他们能和好，但那天丽塔的文章发表了，这似乎证实了罗恩的想法，哈利真的很享受大家的关注。 赫敏对他们俩大发雷霆。她从一个人走到另一个人，试图强迫他们说话，但哈利态度坚决：只要罗恩承认哈利没有把自己的名字投进火焰杯，并为骂他撒谎而道歉，他就不会再和罗恩说话。 “这不是我开始的。”哈利固执地说。 “这是他的问题。”