25 The Egg and the Eye

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The Egg and the Eye As Harry had no idea how long a bath he would need to work out the secret of the golden egg, he decided to do it at night, when he would be able to take as much time as he wanted. Reluctant though he was to accept more favours from Cedric, he also decided to use the Prefects' bathroom; far fewer people were allowed in there, so it was much less likely that he would be disturbed. Harry planned his excursion carefully, because he had been caught out of bed and out of bounds by Filch the caretaker in the middle of the night once before, and had no desire to repeat the experience. The Invisibility Cloak would, of course, be essential, and as an added precaution,

第二十五章金蛋与眼睛哈利不知道要洗多长时间的澡才能解开金蛋的秘密，所以他决定在晚上做，这样他就可以想洗多久就洗多久。 虽然他不愿意接受塞德里克的更多帮助，但他还是决定用级长的盥洗室。进去的人要少得多，所以他被打扰的可能性要小得多。 哈利仔细计划了这次旅行，因为他以前有一次在半夜从床上爬起来，在禁区里被看门人费尔奇抓住，他不想再来一次这样的经历。 隐形衣当然是必不可少的，作为额外的预防措施，

Harry thought he would take the Marauder's Map, which, next to the Cloak, was the most useful aid to rule-breaking Harry owned. The map showed the whole of Hogwarts, including its many shortcuts and secret passageways and, most importantly of all, it revealed the people inside the castle as minuscule, labelled dots, moving around the corridors, so that Harry would be forewarned if somebody was approaching the bathroom. On Thursday night, Harry sneaked up to bed, put on the Cloak, crept back downstairs and, just as he had done on the night when Hagrid had shown him the dragons, waited for the portrait hole to open. This time it was Ron who waited outside to give the Fat Lady the password ('Banana fritters'). 'Good luck,' Ron muttered, climbing into the common room as Harry crept out past him. It was awkward moving under the Cloak tonight, because Harry had the heavy egg under one arm, and the map held in front of his nose with the other. However, the moonlit corridors were empty and silent, and by checking the map at

哈利想带上活点地图，它是哈利除了隐形衣之外最有用的违纪工具。 这张地图显示了整个霍格沃茨，包括许多捷径和秘密通道，最重要的是，它把城堡里的人显示为在走廊里走动的标有记号的小点，这样，如果有人接近浴室，哈利就能事先得到警告。 星期四晚上，哈利偷偷上床，穿上隐形衣，蹑手蹑脚地走下楼，就像海格带他看火龙的那天晚上一样，等着肖像洞口打开。 这次是罗恩在外面等着给胖夫人口令（“香蕉油饼”）。 “祝你好运。”罗恩咕哝着，爬进公共休息室，哈利从他身边悄悄走了出来。 今晚在隐形衣下移动很尴尬，因为哈利一只胳膊夹着沉重的金蛋，另一只胳膊把地图举到鼻子前面。 然而，月光下的走廊空无一人，寂静无声

strategic intervals, Harry was able to ensure that he wouldn't run into anyone he wanted to avoid. When he reached the statue of Boris the Bewildered, a lost-looking wizard with his gloves on the wrong hands, he located the right door, leant close to it, and muttered the password, 'Pine- fresh', just as Cedric had told him. The door creaked open. Harry slipped inside, bolted the door behind him, and pulled off the Invisibility Cloak, looking around. His immediate reaction was that it would be worth becoming a Prefect just to be able to use this bathroom. It was softly lit by a splendid candle-filled chandelier, and everything was made of white marble, including what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming pool sunk into the middle of the floor. About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pool's edges, each with a different-coloured jewel set into its handle. There was also a diving board. Long white linen curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and there was a single golden-framed painting on the wall. It featured a

在有策略的间隔中，哈利可以确保不会碰到他想避开的人。 当他走到困惑的鲍里斯的雕像前，那是一个神情恍惚的巫师，他的手套戴错了。他找到了正确的门，凑近它，低声说出了口令：“松木——新鲜的”，就像塞德里克告诉他的那样。 门嘎吱一声开了。哈利溜了进去，闩上门，脱下隐形衣，四下张望。 他的第一反应是，只要能使用这个盥洗室，就值得当级长。 一盏灯火辉煌的枝形吊灯柔和地照亮了房间，所有的东西都是用白色大理石做的，包括一个沉入地板中央的空长方形游泳池。 大约有一百个金水龙头围绕着池边，每一个水龙头的把手上都镶着一颗不同颜色的宝石。 还有一个跳水板。 窗户上挂着长长的白色亚麻窗帘；一个角落里放着一大堆蓬松的白毛巾，墙上挂着一幅金框画。 它的特点是

blonde mermaid, who was fast asleep on a rock, her long hair fluttering over her face every time she snored. Harry put down his Cloak, the egg and the map, and moved forwards, looking around, his footsteps echoing off the walls. Magnificent though the bathroom was– and quite keen though he was to try out a few of those taps– now he was here he couldn't quite suppress the feeling that Cedric might have been having him on. How on earth was this supposed to help solve the mystery of the egg? Nevertheless, he put one of the fluffy towels, the Cloak, the map and the egg at the side of the swimming-pool-sized bath, then knelt down and turned on a few of the taps. He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water, though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced it. ikcjeo. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs, another poured ice- white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds

金发的美人鱼，她在一块岩石上睡得很熟，她的长发在她的脸上飘动，每次她打鼾。 哈利放下隐形衣、金蛋和地图，朝四周看了看，他的脚步声在墙壁上回响。 尽管盥洗室富丽堂皇——尽管他很想试试几个水龙头——但他到了这里，就忍不住觉得塞德里克可能一直在欺骗他。 这怎么可能有助于解开蛋的谜团呢？ 尽管如此，他还是把一条毛绒绒的毛巾、隐形衣、地图和鸡蛋放在游泳池大小的浴池旁，然后跪下来，打开了几个水龙头。 他一眼就看出来，他们手里拿着不同种类的泡沫浴和水混合在一起，虽然这不是哈利以前用过的那种泡沫浴。 一个水龙头喷出的是足球大小的粉色和蓝色泡泡，另一个水龙头喷出的是厚厚的冰白色泡沫，哈利觉得如果他愿意试一试，它可以支撑他的体重。第三朵送来浓重的紫云

hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs. Then, when the deep pool was full of hot water, foam and bubbles (which took a very short time considering its size), Harry turned off all the taps, pulled off his pyjamas, slippers and dressing- gown, and slid into the water. It was so deep that his feet barely touched the bottom, and he actually did a couple of lengths before swimming back to the side and treading water, staring at the egg. Highly enjoyable though it was to swim in hot and foamy water with clouds of different-coloured steam wafting all around him, no stroke of brilliance came to him, no sudden burst of understanding. Harry stretched out his arms, lifted the egg in his wet hands and opened it. The wailing, screeching sound filled the bathroom, echoing and reverberating off the marble walls, but it sounded just as incomprehensible as ever, if not more so with all the echoes. He snapped it shut again,

漂浮在水面上的。 哈利把水龙头开了又关，自娱自乐了一会儿，特别欣赏其中一个水龙头喷出的水柱在水面上弹起大弧形的效果。 然后，当深水池里满是热水、泡沫和气泡时（考虑到它的大小，这花了很短的时间），哈利关上了所有的水龙头，脱掉睡衣、拖鞋和睡袍，滑入水中。 水太深了，他的脚几乎没碰到池底，他实际上游了两段才游回池边，踩着水，盯着那只蛋。 虽然在滚烫的泡沫水里游泳，周围漂浮着五颜六色的蒸汽，是一件非常愉快的事，但他并没有灵光一现，也没有突然顿悟。 哈利伸出双臂，用湿漉漉的双手捧起金蛋，打开了它。 哀号、尖锐的声音充满了浴室，在大理石墙壁上回荡，但听起来还是那么让人难以理解，如果不是因为所有的回声而更让人难以理解的话。 他又把门关上，

worried that the sound would attract Filch, wondering whether that hadn't been Cedric's plan– and then, making him jump so badly that he dropped the egg, which clattered away across the bathroom floor, someone spoke. 'I'd try putting it in the water, if I were you.' Harry had swallowed a considerable amount of bubbles in shock. He stood up, spluttering, and saw the ghost of a very glum-looking girl sitting cross-legged on top of one of the taps. It was Moaning Myrtle, who was usually to be heard sobbing in the S-bend of a toilet three floors below. 'Myrtle!' Harry said in outrage. 'I'm– I'm not wearing anything!' The foam was so dense that this hardly mattered, but he had a nasty feeling that Myrtle had been spying on him from out of one of the taps ever since he had arrived. 'I closed my eyes when you got in,' she said, blinking at him through her thick spectacles. 'You haven't been to see me for ages.'

担心这声音会吸引费尔奇，怀疑这是不是塞德里克的计划——接着，有人说话了，他猛地一跳，把金蛋掉在地上，哗啦哗啦地滚到盥洗室的地板上。 “如果我是你，我会试着把它放进水里。”哈利吓得吞下了不少泡泡。 他噗通一声站了起来，看见一个神情忧郁的女孩的鬼魂盘腿坐在一个水龙头上。 原来是哭泣的桃金娘，她经常在楼下三层楼的厕所的弯口抽泣。 “桃金娘!”哈利愤怒地说。 “我——我什么也没穿！”泡沫很浓，这没什么关系，但他有一种不祥的感觉，觉得自从他来到这里以来，桃金娘一直在从一个水龙头里监视他。 “你进来的时候我闭上了眼睛，”她说着，透过厚厚的眼镜朝他眨了眨眼睛。 “你好久没来看我了。”