31 The Third Task

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The Third Task 'Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger again as well?' Ron whispered. Everything Harry had seen in the Pensieve, nearly everything Dumbledore had told and shown him afterwards, he had now shared with Ron and Hermione–and, of course, with Sirius, to whom Harry had sent an owl the moment he had left Dumbledore's office. Harry, Ron and Hermione sat up late in the common room once again that night, talking it all over until Harry's mind was reeling, until he understood what Dumbledore had meant about a head becoming so full of thoughts that it would have been a relief to siphon them off.

第三个项目“邓布利多认为神秘人又变强大了？”罗恩低声说。 哈利在冥想盆里看到的一切，以及邓布利多后来告诉他和给他看的几乎所有事情，现在都告诉了罗恩和赫敏——当然还有小天狼星，哈利一离开邓布利多的办公室就派了一只猫头鹰去找他。 那天晚上，哈利、罗恩和赫敏又在公共休息室里坐到很晚，他们把这件事从头到尾讨论了一遍，直到哈利的脑子昏昏沉沉的，直到他明白了邓布利多所说的脑袋里满是思想，只要把它们吸走就会松一口气的意思。

Ron stared into the common-room fire. Harry thought he saw Ron shiver slightly, even though the evening was warm. 'And he trusts Snape?' Ron said. 'He really trusts Snape, even though he knows he was a Death Eater?' 'Yes,' said Harry. Hermione had not spoken for ten minutes. She was sitting with her forehead in her hands, staring at her knees. Harry thought she, too, looked as though she could have done with a Pensieve. 'Rita Skeeter,' she muttered finally. 'How can you be worrying about her now?' said Ron, indisbelief. 'I'm not worrying about her,' Hermione said to her knees. 'I'm just thinking… remember what she said to me in the Three Broomsticks? "I know things about Ludo Bagman that would make your hair curl." This is what she meant, isn't it? She reported his trial, she knew he'd passed information to the Death Eaters. And Winky, too, remember… "Mr Bagman is a bad wizard." Mr

罗恩盯着公共休息室的炉火。 哈利觉得他看见罗恩在微微发抖，尽管晚上很暖和。 “他信任斯内普？”罗恩说道。 “他真的相信斯内普，尽管他知道斯内普是个食死徒？”“是的。”哈利说。 赫敏已经十分钟没说话了。 她坐在那里，双手捂着额头，眼睛盯着膝盖。 哈利觉得她看上去也很需要冥想盆。 “丽塔·斯基特。” “你现在怎么还在担心她呢？”罗恩难以置信地问。 “我不担心她。”赫敏对着膝盖说。 “我只是在想……还记得她在三把扫帚里对我说的话吗？” “我知道卢多·巴格曼的一些事，会让你毛骨悚然的。” 她是这个意思，对吧？ 她报告了对他的审判，她知道他向食死徒传递了情报。 还有闪闪，记住……“巴格曼先生是个坏巫师。” 先生

Crouch would have been furious he got off, he would have talked about it at home.' 'Yeah, but Bagman didn't pass information on purpose, did he?' Hermione shrugged. 'And Fudge reckons Madame Maxime attacked Crouch?' Ron said, turning back to Harry. 'Yeah,' said Harry, 'but he's only saying that because Crouch disappeared near the Beauxbatons carriage.' 'We never thought of her, did we?' said Ron, slowly. 'Mind you, she's definitely got giant blood, and she doesn't want to admit it–' 'Of course she doesn't,' said Hermione sharply, looking up. 'Look what happened to Hagrid when Rita found out about his mother. Look at Fudge, jumping to conclusions about her, just because she's part giant. Who needs that sort of prejudice? I'd probably say I had big bones if I knew that's what I'd get for telling the truth.' Hermione looked at her watch.

他被罚下了，克劳奇一定会生气的，他会在家里谈论这件事的。“是啊，但巴格曼不是故意传递情报的吧？”赫敏耸耸肩。 “福吉认为马克西姆夫人袭击了克劳奇？”罗恩转身对哈利说。 “是啊，”哈利说，“但他这么说是因为克劳奇在布斯巴顿的马车附近消失了。“我们从来没有想到过她，是吗？”罗恩慢慢地说。 “请注意，她肯定有巨人血统，而且她不想承认——”“她当然不想承认。”赫敏抬起头，严厉地说。 “看看丽塔发现海格母亲的事后，他发生了什么事。 看看福吉，就因为她有一半是巨人，就对她妄下结论。 谁需要那种偏见？ 如果我知道我说真话的后果是什么，我可能会说我的骨头很大。”赫敏看了看表。

'We haven't done any practising!' she said, looking shocked. 'We were going to do the Impediment Jinx! We'll have to really get down to it tomorrow! Come on, Harry, you need to get some sleep.' Harry and Ron went slowly upstairs to their dormitory. As Harry pulled on his pyjamas, he looked over at Neville's bed. True to his word to Dumbledore, he had not told Ron and Hermione about Neville's parents. As Harry took off his glasses and climbed into his four-poster, he imagined how it must feel to have parents still living, but unable to recognise you. He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville's snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did. Lying in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate towards the people who had tortured Mr and Mrs Longbottom… he remembered the jeers of the crowd as Crouch's son and his companions had been dragged from the court by the Dementors… he understood how they had felt… then he remembered the milk-white face of the screaming

“我们还没有练习呢！”她说，显得很震惊。 “我们要施障碍咒！”我们明天得认真做这件事了！来吧，哈利，你需要睡一会儿。”哈利和罗恩慢慢地上楼回宿舍去了。 哈利穿上睡衣，朝纳威的床看去。 他信守了对邓布利多的诺言，没有把纳威父母的事告诉罗恩和赫敏。 哈利摘下眼镜，爬进他的四柱床，想象着父母还活着，却认不出自己是什么感觉。 他经常因为自己是孤儿而得到陌生人的同情，但当他听到纳威的鼾声时，他觉得纳威比他更应该得到同情。 躺在黑暗中，哈利对那些折磨隆巴顿夫妇的人产生了一股愤怒和仇恨……他想起了当克劳奇的儿子和他的同伴被摄魂怪拖出法庭时人们的嘲笑……他理解了他们的感受……然后他想起了尖叫者那张乳白色的脸

boy, and realised with a jolt that he had died a year later… It was Voldemort, Harry thought, staring up at the canopy of his bed in the darkness, it all came back to Voldemort… he was the one who had torn these families apart, who had ruined all these lives… Ron and Hermione were supposed to be revising for their exams, which would finish on the day of the third task, but they were putting most of their efforts into helping Harry prepare. 'Don't worry about it,' Hermione said shortly, when Harry pointed this out to them, and said he didn't mind practising on his own for a while. 'At least we'll get top marks in Defence Against the Dark Arts, we'd never have found out about all these hexes in class.' 'Good training for when we're all Aurors,' said Ron excitedly, attempting the Impediment Jinx on a wasp that had buzzed into the room, and making it stop dead in mid-air.

男孩,意识到大惊之下,他已经死了一年之后…这是伏地魔,哈利想,抬头看着他床上的树冠在黑暗中,这一切都回到伏地魔……他是这些家庭破裂,他毁了所有这些生活……罗恩和赫敏应该修改他们的考试,这将完成第三当天的任务,但他们把他们的大部分努力帮助哈利准备。 “别担心。”赫敏简短地说，这时哈利把这一点指给他们看，并说他不介意自己练习一会儿。 “至少我们能在黑魔法防御术课上拿高分，我们在课堂上就不会知道这些魔咒了。“当我们都是傲罗的时候，这是很好的训练。”罗恩兴奋地说，一边试着对一只嗡嗡地飞进房间的黄蜂施障碍咒，让它停在半空中。

The mood in the castle as they entered June became excited and tense again. Everyone was looking forward to the third task, which would take place a week before the end of term. Harry was practising hexes in every available moment. He felt more confident about this task than either of the others. Difficult and dangerous though it would undoubtedly be, Moody was right: Harry had managed to find his way past monstrous creatures and enchanted barriers before now, and this time he had some notice, some chance to prepare himself for what lay ahead. Tired of walking in on them all over the school, Professor McGonagall had given Harry permission to use the empty Transfiguration classroom at lunchtimes. He had soon mastered the Impediment Jinx, a spell to slow down and obstruct attackers, the Reductor curse, which would enable him to blast solid objects out of his way, and the Four-Point Spell, a useful discovery of Hermione's which would make his wand point due north, therefore enabling him to check whether he was going in the right direction within

当他们进入六月时，城堡里的气氛又变得兴奋和紧张起来。 每个人都在期待着第三项任务，它将在学期结束前一周进行。 哈利一有机会就练习咒语。 他对这项任务比其他人都更有信心。 虽然这无疑是困难和危险的，但穆迪是对的：哈利之前已经设法越过了怪物和施了魔法的障碍，这次他得到了一些通知，有机会为即将到来的事情做好准备。 麦格教授厌倦了在学校里到处撞见他们，于是允许哈利在午饭时间使用那间空着的变形课教室。 他很快就掌握了阻碍咒，这是一种减缓和阻挡攻击者的咒语，还有减少咒，它能使他炸开路上的固体物体，还有四点咒，这是赫敏的一个有用的发现，它能使他的魔杖指向正北，这样他就能检查自己内部的方向是否正确