30 The Pensieve

CHAPTER THIRTY The Pensieve The door of the office opened. 'Hello, Potter,' said Moody. 'Come in, then.' Harry walked inside. He had been inside Dumbledore's office once before; it was a very beautiful, circular room, lined with pictures of previous Headmasters and mistresses of Hogwarts, all of whom were fast asleep, their chests rising and falling gently. Cornelius Fudge was standing beside Dumbledore's desk, wearing his usual pinstriped cloak and holding his lime-green bowler hat. 'Harry!' said Fudge jovially, moving forwards. 'How are you?'

第三十章沉思盆办公室的门开了。 “你好，波特。”穆迪说。 “那么进来吧。”哈利走了进去。 他以前去过邓布利多的办公室一次。这是一间非常漂亮的圆形房间，墙上挂着霍格沃茨历任男女校长的照片，他们都睡得很熟，胸部轻轻起伏。 康奈利·福吉站在邓布利多的桌子旁边，穿着他平时穿的细条纹斗篷，手里拿着他那顶酸橙绿色的圆顶硬礼帽。 “哈利!福吉高兴地说，向前走了几步。 “你好吗？”

'Fine,' Harry lied. 'We were just talking about the night when Mr Crouch turned up in the grounds,' said Fudge. 'It was you who found him, was it not?' 'Yes,' said Harry. Then, feeling it was pointless to pretend that he hadn't overheard what they had been saying, he added, 'I didn't see Madame Maxime anywhere, though, and she'd have a job hiding, wouldn't she?' Dumbledore smiled at Harry behind Fudge's back, his eyes twinkling. 'Yes, well,' said Fudge, looking embarrassed, 'we're about to go for a short walk in the grounds, Harry, if you'll excuse us… perhaps if you just go back to your class–' 'I wanted to talk to you, Professor,' Harry said quickly, looking at Dumbledore, who gave him a swift, searching look. 'Wait here for me, Harry,' he said. 'Our examination of the grounds will not take long.' They trooped out in silence past him, and closed the door. After a minute or so, Harry heard the

“很好。”哈利撒谎道。“我们正在谈论克劳奇先生出现在场地上的那个晚上。”福吉说。 “是你发现他的，是不是？”“是的。”哈利说。 然后，他觉得假装没有听到他们的谈话是没有意义的，于是又补充道：“不过，我没有看到马克西姆夫人，她躲起来很困难，不是吗？”邓布利多在福吉背后对哈利微笑，眼睛闪闪发光。 “是啊，好吧，”福吉尴尬地说，“我们要到操场上散散步，哈利，如果你不介意的话……也许你可以回到你的课堂上去——”“我想跟你谈谈，教授，”哈利赶紧说，看着邓布利多，邓布利多飞快地、搜索地看了他一眼。 “在这儿等我，哈利。”他说。 “我们检查场地的时间不会太长。”他们默默地从他身边走出去，关上了门。 过了一分钟左右，哈利听到了“……

clunks of Moody's wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. He looked around. 'Hello, Fawkes,' he said. Fawkes, Professor Dumbledore's phoenix, was standing on his golden perch beside the door. The size of a swan, with magnificent scarlet and gold plumage, he swished his long tail and blinked benignly at Harry. Harry sat down in a chair in front of Dumbledore's desk. For several minutes, he sat and watched the old Headmasters and mistresses snoozing in their frames, thinking about what he had just heard, and running his fingers over his scar. It had stopped hurting now. He felt much calmer, somehow, now he was in Dumbledore's office, knowing he would shortly be telling him about the dream. Harry looked up at the walls behind the desk. The patched and ragged Sorting Hat was standing on a shelf. A glass case next to it held a magnificent silver sword, with large rubies set into the hilt, which Harry recognised as the one he himself had pulled out of the Sorting Hat in his second year. The sword had

穆迪的木腿在走廊里发出的撞击声越来越微弱。 他环顾四周。“你好，福克斯，”他说。 邓布利多教授的凤凰福克斯站在门边的金色栖木上。 它有天鹅那么大，长着华丽的猩红色和金色羽毛，甩着长长的尾巴，亲切地朝哈利眨着眼睛。 哈利在邓布利多书桌前的椅子上坐了下来。 他坐了好几分钟，看着那些在镜框里打着盹儿的老男女校长，想着他刚才听到的话，用手指抚摸着伤疤。 现在已经不疼了。 不知怎的，现在他到了邓布利多的办公室，知道自己很快就要把梦的经过告诉邓布利多，他觉得平静多了。 哈利抬头看着桌子后面的墙壁。 那顶打了补丁的破旧分院帽放在架子上。 旁边的一个玻璃柜里放着一把华丽的银剑，剑柄上镶着大颗红宝石，哈利认出这是他二年级时从分院帽里掏出的那把。 这把剑

once belonged to Godric Gryffindor, founder of Harry's house. He was gazing at it, remembering how it had come to his aid when he had thought all hope was lost, when he noticed a patch of silvery light, dancing and shimmering on the glass case. He looked around for the source of the light, and saw a sliver of silver white shining brightly from within a black cabinet behind him, whose door had not been closed properly. Harry hesitated, glanced at Fawkes, then got up, walked across the office, and pulled the cabinet door open. A shallow stone basin lay there, with odd carvings around the edge; runes and symbols that Harry did not recognise. The silvery light was coming from the basin's contents, which were like nothing Harry had ever seen before. He could not tell whether the substance was liquid or gas. It was a bright, whitish silver, and it was moving ceaselessly; the surface of it became ruffled like water beneath wind, and then, like clouds, separated and swirled smoothly. ikcjeo. It looked like

曾经属于哈利学院的创始人戈德里克·格兰芬多。 他凝视着它，想起在他以为一切希望都破灭的时候，它是如何帮助他的。这时，他注意到玻璃柜上有一片银光在闪烁着。 他环顾四周寻找光源，看到身后一个黑色的柜子里有一道银白色的银光闪闪发光，柜子的门没有关好。 哈利犹豫了一下，看了福克斯一眼，然后站起来，穿过办公室，拉开柜门。 那里放着一个浅石盆，盆边有一些奇怪的雕刻；哈利不认识的符文和符号。 银光是从盆里的东西发出来的，这是哈利以前从未见过的。 他说不出这种物质是液体还是气体。 它是一种明亮的银白色，不停地移动着；它的表面变得像风下的水一样起伏，然后像云一样分开，平稳地旋转。 看起来像是

light made liquid–or like wind made solid–Harry couldn't make up his mind. He wanted to touch it, to find out what it felt like, but nearly four years' experience of the magical world told him that sticking his hand into a bowl full of some unknown substance was a very stupid thing to do. He therefore pulled his wand out of the inside of his robes, cast a nervous look around the office, looked back at the contents of the basin, and prodded them. The surface of the silvery stuff inside the basin began to swirl very fast. Harry bent closer, his head right inside the cabinet. The silvery substance had become transparent; it looked like glass. He looked down into it, expecting to see the stone bottom of the basin–and saw instead an enormous room below the surface of the mysterious substance, a room into which he seemed to be looking through a circular window in the ceiling. The room was dimly lit; he thought it might even be underground, for there were no windows, merely torches in brackets such as the ones that

光变成液体——或者像风变成固体一样——哈利拿不定主意。 他想摸摸它，看看它是什么感觉，但将近四年的魔法世界经验告诉他，把手伸进一个装满未知物质的碗里是一件非常愚蠢的事情。 于是他从袍子里抽出魔杖，紧张地扫视了一下办公室，又回头看了看盆里的东西，捅了捅他们。 盆里的银色物质的表面开始快速旋转。 哈利凑得更近了，他的头正好在柜子里。 那银色的东西变得透明了；它看起来像玻璃。 他往里看，以为会看到石盆的底部，却看到了这个神秘物质的表面下有一个巨大的房间，他似乎是从天花板上的一扇圆形窗户往里看。 房间里灯光昏暗；他想它甚至可能是在地下，因为里面没有窗户，只有火把插在支架上

illuminated the walls of Hogwarts. Lowering his face so that his nose was a mere inch away from the glassy substance, Harry saw that rows and rows of witches and wizards were sat around every wall on what seemed to be benches rising in levels. An empty chair stood in the very centre of the room. There was something about the chair that gave Harry an ominous feeling. Chains encircled the arms of it, as though its occupants were usually tied to it. Where was this place? It surely wasn't Hogwarts; he had never seen a room like that here in the castle. Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was composed of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts. They seemed, he thought, to be waiting for something; even though he could only see the tops of their pointed hats, they all seemed to be facing in one direction, and nobody was talking to anybody else. The basin being circular, and the room he was observing square, Harry could not make out what

照亮了霍格沃茨的墙壁。 哈利把脸垂下来，鼻子离那玻璃一样的东西只有一英寸远，他看到每面墙周围都坐着一排排的巫师，他们坐在似乎是升高的长凳上。 房间正中央放着一把空椅子。 这把椅子给了哈利一种不祥的感觉。 铁链环绕着它的手臂，好像里面的人通常是被绑在上面的。 这个地方在哪里？这肯定不是霍格沃茨；他在城堡里从未见过这样的房间。 此外，在盆底那间神秘房间里的人都是成年人，哈利知道霍格沃茨的老师远没有那么多。 他想，他们似乎在等待什么；虽然他只能看到他们尖顶的帽子，但他们似乎都面向一个方向，没有人在和别人说话。 脸盆是圆形的，他观察的房间是方形的，哈利看不清是什么