11 The Sorting Hat’s New Song

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Sorting Hat's New Song Harry did not want to tell the others that he and Luna were having the same hallucination, if that was what it was, so he said nothing more about the horses as he sat down inside the carriage and slammed the door behind him. Nevertheless, he could not help watching the silhouettes of the horses moving beyond the window. 'Did everyone see that Grubbly-Plank woman?' asked Ginny. 'What's she doing back here? Hagrid can't have left, can he?' 'I'll be quite glad if he has,' said Luna, 'he isn't a very good teacher, is he?'

第十一章分院帽的新歌哈利不想告诉别人他和卢娜也产生了同样的幻觉——如果真是这样的话，所以他没有再提马的事，而是在马车里坐了下来，砰地关上了身后的门。 尽管如此，他还是忍不住看到了窗外马的身影。 “大家都看见那个格拉普兰女人了吗？”金妮问。 “她在这儿干什么？” 海格不可能走了，是不是？“如果他去了，我会很高兴的，”卢娜说，“他不是个很好的老师，是不是？”

'Yes, he is!' said Harry, Ron and Ginny angrily. Harry glared at Hermione. She cleared her throat and quickly said, 'Erm… yes… he's very good.' 'Well, we in Ravenclaw think he's a bit of a joke,' said Luna, unfazed. 'You've got a rubbish sense of humour then,' Ron snapped, as the wheels below them creaked into motion. Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme. Rattling and swaying, the carriages moved in convoy up the road. When they passed between the tall stone pillars topped with winged boars on either side of the gates to the school grounds, Harry leaned forwards to try and see whether there were any lights on in Hagrid's cabin by the Forbidden Forest, but the grounds were in complete darkness. Hogwarts Castle, however, loomed ever closer: a towering mass of turrets, jet

“是的，他是！”哈利、罗恩和金妮生气地说。 哈利怒视着赫敏。她清了清嗓子，赶紧说：“嗯……是的……他很厉害。”“嗯，我们拉文克劳的人觉得他有点可笑。”卢娜毫不在意地说。 “那你的幽默感真是垃圾。”罗恩厉声说，他们下面的轮子嘎吱嘎吱地开动起来了。 卢娜似乎并没有因为罗恩的无礼而感到不安。相反，她只是看了他一会儿，好像他是一个稍微有趣的电视节目。 马车排成一队，摇摇晃晃地在路上行驶。 当他们从通往学校场地的大门两侧的高高的石柱之间穿过时，哈利探出身子，想看看禁林边海格的小屋里有没有亮着灯，但场地上一片漆黑。 然而霍格沃茨城堡却越来越近了：一大堆高耸的塔楼

black against the dark sky, here and there a window blazing fiery bright above them. The carriages jingled to a halt near the stone steps leading up to the oak front doors and Harry got out of the carriage first. He turned again to look for lit windows down by the Forest, but there was definitely no sign of life within Hagrid's cabin. Unwillingly, because he had half-hoped they would have vanished, he turned his eyes instead upon the strange, skeletal creatures standing quietly in the chill night air, their blank white eyes gleaming. Harry had once before had the experience of seeing something that Ron could not, but that had been a reflection in a mirror, something much more insubstantial than a hundred very solid- looking beasts strong enough to pull a fleet of carriages. If Luna was to be believed, the beasts had always been there but invisible. Why, then, could Harry suddenly see them, and why could Ron not? 'Are you coming or what?' said Ron beside him.

在黑暗的天空衬托下，黑黑的，他们头顶上不时有一扇窗户在燃烧。 马车丁丁当当地停在通往橡树大门的石阶旁，哈利第一个下了车。 他又转过身去寻找禁林边有灯光的窗户，但海格的小屋里显然没有任何生命的迹象。 他不情愿地把目光转向了那些奇怪的骨骼生物，它们静静地站在夜晚寒冷的空气中，空洞的白眼睛闪闪发光。 哈利以前有过一次看见罗恩看不见的东西的经历，但那是镜子里的倒影，比一百头看起来很结实、强壮得足以拉起一队马车的野兽要虚无得多。 如果卢娜的话可信的话，那些野兽一直都在那里，只是看不见而已。 那么，为什么哈利突然能看见他们，而罗恩却看不见呢？ “你到底来不来？”罗恩在他身边问。

'Oh… yeah,' said Harry quickly and they joined the crowd hurrying up the stone steps into the castle. The Entrance Hall was ablaze with torches and echoing with footsteps as the students crossed the flagged stone floor for the double doors to the right, leading to the Great Hall and the start-of- term feast. The four long house tables in the Great Hall were filling up under the starless black ceiling, which was just like the sky they could glimpse through the high windows. Candles floated in midair all along the tables, illuminating the silvery ghosts who were dotted about the Hall and the faces of the students talking eagerly, exchanging summer news, shouting greetings at friends from other houses, eyeing one another's new haircuts and robes. Again, Harry noticed people putting their heads together to whisper as he passed; he gritted his teeth and tried to act as though he neither noticed nor cared. Luna drifted away from them at the Ravenclaw table. The moment they reached Gryffindor's,

“哦……是啊。”哈利赶紧说，他们加入了人群，匆匆走上石阶进入城堡。 门厅里灯火通明，脚步声在回荡，学生们穿过铺着石板的地板，向右边的两扇门走去，那扇门通向大礼堂和开学宴会。 大礼堂里的四张长桌子在没有星星的黑色天花板下坐满了人，就像他们透过高高的窗户瞥见的天空一样。 桌子上的蜡烛在半空中飘浮，照亮了点缀在礼堂里的银色幽灵，也照亮了学生们的脸，他们兴致勃勃地交谈着，交换着夏天的消息，大声向其他学院的朋友问好，注视着彼此的新发型和新袍子。 哈利又一次注意到，他走过的时候，人们把头凑在一起窃窃私语。他咬紧牙关，装出既没注意到也不在乎的样子。 卢娜在拉文克劳餐桌上慢慢离开了他们。 他们一来到格兰芬多的教室，

Ginny was hailed by some fellow fourth-years and left to sit with them; Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville found seats together about halfway down the table between Nearly Headless Nick, the Gryffindor house ghost, and Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, the last two of whom gave Harry airy, overly-friendly greetings that made him quite sure they had stopped talking about him a split second before. He had more important things to worry about, however: he was looking over the students' heads to the staff table that ran along the top wall of the Hall. 'He's not there.' Ron and Hermione scanned the staff table too, though there was no real need; Hagrid's size made him instantly obvious in any line-up. 'He can't have left,' said Ron, sounding slightly anxious. 'Of course he hasn't,' said Harry firmly. 'You don't think he's… hurt, or anything, do you?' said Hermione uneasily. 'No,' said Harry at once.

金妮被一个四年级的同学招呼了一下，让她和他们坐在一起。哈利、罗恩、赫敏和纳威在桌子中间找到了座位，分别坐在格兰芬多学院的幽灵差点没头的尼克、帕瓦蒂·佩蒂尔和拉文德·布朗之间。后两位向哈利亲切地、过分友好地打了个招呼，使他确信他们刚才已经不再谈论他了。 然而，他有更重要的事情要操心：他越过学生们的头顶，望向沿着礼堂顶墙延伸的教工桌子。 “他不在那儿。”罗恩和赫敏也扫视了一下教工桌子，不过其实没有这个必要。海格的身材使他在任何阵容中都很显眼。 “他不可能走了。”罗恩说，声音里有些焦急。 “他当然没有。”哈利坚定地说。 “你不会认为他……受伤了吧？”赫敏不安地说。 “不。”哈利马上说。

'But where is he, then?' There was a pause, then Harry said very quietly, so that Neville, Parvati and Lavender could not hear, 'Maybe he's not back yet. You know– from his mission– the thing he was doing over the summer for Dumbledore.' 'Yeah… yeah, that'll be it,' said Ron, sounding reassured, but Hermione bit her lip, looking up and down the staff table as though hoping for some conclusive explanation of Hagrid's absence. 'Who's that?' she said sharply, pointing towards the middle of the staff table. Harry's eyes followed hers. They lit first upon Professor Dumbledore, sitting in his high-backed golden chair at the centre of the long staff table, wearing deep-purple robes scattered with silvery stars and a matching hat. Dumbledore's head was inclined towards the woman sitting next to him, who was talking into his ear. She looked, Harry thought, like somebody's maiden aunt: squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink Alice band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her robes. Then

“那他在哪儿呢？”沉默了一会儿，哈利轻轻地说，不让纳威、帕瓦蒂和拉文德听见：“也许他还没有回来。 你知道——从他的任务来看——就是他整个夏天为邓布利多做的事情。“是……是，就这样吧。”罗恩说，听上去很放心，但赫敏咬着嘴唇，上下打量着教工桌子，似乎希望能对海格的缺席给出一个确凿的解释。 “那是谁?她指着教工桌子中央厉声说。 哈利的目光跟随她的目光。 他们首先看到了邓布利多教授，他坐在长长的教工桌子中央那把金色的高背椅上，穿着深紫色的长袍，上面撒满了银色的星星，戴着一顶相配的帽子。 邓布利多把头斜向坐在他旁边的女人，她正对着他的耳朵说话。 哈利想，她看上去就像某个人的未婚姑妈：矮胖，一头鼠棕色的短卷发，头发上扎着一条可怕的粉红色爱丽丝手环，和她长袍外面那件蓬松的粉红色开襟羊毛衫很相配。 然后