19 The Lion and the Serpent

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Lion and the Serpent Harry felt as though he were carrying some kind of talisman inside his chest over the following two weeks, a glowing secret that supported him through Umbridge's classes and even made it possible for him to smile blandly as he looked into her horrible bulging eyes. He and the DA were resisting her under her very nose, doing the very thing she and the Ministry most feared, and whenever he was supposed to be reading Wilbert Slinkhard's book during her lessons he dwelled instead on satisfying memories of their most recent meetings, remembering how Neville had

第十九章狮子与蛇在接下来的两个星期里，哈利觉得自己的胸膛里好像藏着某种护身符，一个发光的秘密支撑着他上完乌姆里奇的课，甚至让他看着她那双可怕的凸出的眼睛时，露出了温和的微笑。 他和d.a.就在她的鼻子底下反抗她，做着她和魔法部最害怕的事。每当他应该在她的课上读威尔伯特·斯林卡的书时，他却老是沉浸在他们最近几次会面的愉快回忆中，想起纳威的所作所为

successfully disarmed Hermione, how Colin Creevey had mastered the Impediment Jinx after three meetings' hard effort, how Parvati Patil had produced such a good Reductor Curse that she had reduced the table carrying all the Sneakoscopes to dust. He was finding it almost impossible to fix a regular night of the week for the DA meetings, as they had to accommodate three separate teams' Quidditch practices, which were often rearranged due to bad weather conditions; but Harry was not sorry about this; he had a feeling that it was probably better to keep the timing of their meetings unpredictable. If anyone was watching them, it would be hard to make out a pattern. Hermione soon devised a very clever method of communicating the time and date of the next meeting to all the members in case they needed to change it at short notice, because it would look suspicious if people from different Houses were seen crossing the Great Hall to talk to each other too often. She gave each of the members of the DA a fake Galleon (Ron became very excited

科林·克里维经过三次会议的艰苦努力，终于掌握了障碍咒，帕瓦蒂·佩蒂尔念出了一个非常棒的还原咒，把放着所有镜镜的桌子都变成了灰尘。 他发现几乎不可能把d.a.的会议安排在一个固定的星期晚上，因为他们必须同时安排三支不同球队的魁地奇训练，而这些训练又经常因为天气恶劣而重新安排。但哈利并不为此感到难过。他有一种感觉，也许最好让他们的会面时间保持不可预测的状态。 如果有人在监视他们，很难找出规律。 赫敏很快想出了一个非常聪明的办法，把下次开会的时间和日期通知全体成员，以防他们在短时间内需要改变开会时间，因为如果看到不同学院的人太频繁地穿过礼堂互相交谈，会显得很可疑。 她给了d.a.的每个成员一个假加隆(罗恩变得非常兴奋

when he first saw the basket and was convinced she was actually giving out gold). 'You see the numerals around the edge of the coins?' Hermione said, holding one up for examination at the end of their fourth meeting. The coin gleamed fat and yellow in the light from the torches. 'On real Galleons that's just a serial number referring to the goblin who cast the coin. On these fake coins, though, the numbers will change to reflect the time and date of the next meeting. The coins will grow hot when the date changes, so if you're carrying them in a pocket you'll be able to feel them. We take one each, and when Harry sets the date of the next meeting he'll change the numbers on his coin, and because I've put a Protean Charm on them, they'll all change to mimic his.' A blank silence greeted Hermione's words. She looked around at all the faces upturned to her, rather disconcerted. 'Well– I thought it was a good idea,' she said uncertainly, 'I mean, even if Umbridge asked us to turn out our pockets, there's nothing fishy about

当他第一次看到篮子并确信她实际上是在送金子时)。 “你看到硬币边缘的数字了吗？”第四次会面结束时，赫敏说，手里拿着一张纸供检查。 那枚硬币在火把的光线下闪着又肥又黄的光。 “在真正的加隆上，那只是一个序列号，指的是铸造硬币的妖精。 不过，在这些假币上，数字会改变，以反映下次会议的时间和日期。 当日期改变时，硬币会变热，所以如果你把它们放在口袋里，你就能感觉到它们。 我们每人拿一枚，等哈利定下下次聚会的日期，他就把硬币上的数字改一改，因为我对硬币施了千变万化咒，所有的硬币都会跟着他的变。”赫敏说完之后，一片空白的沉默。 她环顾四周，看着所有仰视着她的面孔，有些不安。 “嗯——我认为这是个好主意，”她不确定地说，“我是说，即使乌姆里奇让我们把口袋翻出来，也没有什么可疑的

carrying a Galleon, is there? But… well, if you don't want to use them–' 'You can do a Protean Charm?' said Terry Boot. 'Yes,' said Hermione. 'But that's… that's N.E.W.T. standard, that is,' he said weakly. 'Oh,' said Hermione, trying to look modest. 'Oh… well… yes, I suppose it is.' 'How come you're not in Ravenclaw?' he demanded, staring at Hermione with something close to wonder. 'With brains like yours?' 'Well, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting,' said Hermione brightly, 'but it decided on Gryffindor in the end. So, does that mean we're using the Galleons?' There was a murmur of assent and everybody moved forwards to collect one from the basket. Harry looked sideways at Hermione. ikcjeo. 'You know what these remind me of?' 'No, what's that?'

拿着一艘帆船，是吗？ “你会施变形咒吗？”特里·布特说。 “是的。”赫敏说。“但那是……那是提高班。 “是标准的。”他虚弱地说。 “哦。”赫敏说，努力装出谦虚的样子。 “哦……嗯……是的，我想是的。”“你怎么不在拉文克劳？”他问，带着近乎好奇的神情盯着赫敏。 “有你这样的脑子？”“嗯，分院帽在我分院的时候确实认真考虑过把我分到拉文克劳，”赫敏高兴地说，“但最后还是决定把我分到格兰芬多。” 那么，这是不是意味着我们要用加隆了？”大家低声表示同意，于是大家都上前从篮子里捡起一颗。 哈利斜眼看着赫敏。 “你知道这让我想起了什么吗？”“不知道，那是什么？”

'The Death Eaters' scars. Voldemort touches one of them, and all their scars burn, and they know they've got to join him.' 'Well… yes,' said Hermione quietly, 'that is where I got the idea… but you'll notice I decided to engrave the date on bits of metal rather than on our members' skin.' 'Yeah… I prefer your way,' said Harry, grinning, as he slipped his Galleon into his pocket. 'I suppose the only danger with these is that we might accidentally spend them.' 'Fat chance,' said Ron, who was examining his own fake Galleon with a slightly mournful air, 'I haven't got any real Galleons to confuse it with.' As the first Quidditch match of the season, Gryffindor versus Slytherin, drew nearer, their DA meetings were put on hold because Angelina insisted on almost daily practices. The fact that the Quidditch Cup had not been held for so long added considerably to the interest and excitement surrounding the forthcoming game; the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were taking a lively interest in the outcome, for they, of course, would

“食死徒的伤疤。”伏地魔碰了他们中的一个，他们所有的伤疤都在灼烧，他们知道他们必须加入他。“嗯……是的，”赫敏平静地说，“这就是我的想法……但是你会注意到，我决定把日期刻在金属碎片上，而不是刻在会员的皮肤上。”“是啊……我更喜欢你的方式。”哈利笑着说，把他的加隆塞进口袋。 “我想，这些钱唯一的危险就是我们可能会不小心花掉它们。“不可能，”罗恩说，他带着一种略带悲哀的神情审视着自己的假加隆，“我没有真加隆和它混淆。”随着本赛季第一场魁地奇比赛——格兰芬多对斯莱特林——的临近，他们的d.a.会议被搁置了，因为安吉利娜坚持几乎每天都要训练。 魁地奇杯这么长时间没有举行，这大大增加了人们对即将到来的比赛的兴趣和兴奋。拉文克劳和赫奇帕奇的学生对比赛结果非常感兴趣，因为他们当然会感兴趣

be playing both teams over the coming year; and the Heads of House of the competing teams, though they attempted to disguise it under a decent pretence of sportsmanship, were determined to see their own side victorious. Harry realised how much Professor McGonagall cared about beating Slytherin when she abstained from giving them homework in the week leading up to the match. 'I think you've got enough to be getting on with at the moment,' she said loftily. Nobody could quite believe their ears until she looked directly at Harry and Ron and said grimly, 'I've become accustomed to seeing the Quidditch Cup in my study, boys, and I really don't want to have to hand it over to Professor Snape, so use the extra time to practise, won't you?' Snape was no less obviously partisan; he had booked the Quidditch pitch for Slytherin practice so often that the Gryffindors had difficulty getting on it to play. He was also turning a deaf ear to the many reports of Slytherin attempts to hex Gryffindor players in the corridors. When Alicia

在接下来的一年里与这两支球队比赛；参赛队伍的院长们，虽然试图以一种体面的体育精神来掩饰，但他们决心要看到自己的队伍获胜。 哈利意识到麦格教授是多么在乎打败斯莱特林，因为她在比赛前一个星期没有给他们布置家庭作业。 “我想你眼下要忙的事已经够多了，”她高傲地说。 大家都不敢相信自己的耳朵，直到她直视着哈利和罗恩，严肃地说：“我已经习惯了在书房里看到魁地奇奖杯，孩子们，我真的不想把它交给斯内普教授，所以你们可以利用这段额外的时间练习一下，好吗？”斯内普的党派性同样明显；他经常为斯莱特林队的训练预定魁地奇球场，以至于格兰芬多队很难进去比赛。 他还对斯莱特林试图在走廊里对格兰芬多队员施魔法的许多报道充耳不闻。 当艾丽西亚