25 The Beetle at Bay

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The Beetle at Bay Harry's question was answered the very next morning. When Hermione's Daily Prophet arrived she smoothed it out, gazed for a moment at the front page and gave a yelp that caused everyone in the vicinity to stare at her. 'What?' said Harry and Ron together. For answer she spread the newspaper on the table in front of them and pointed at ten black- and-white photographs that filled the whole of the front page, nine showing wizards' faces and the tenth, a witch's. Some of the people in the photographs were silently jeering; others were tapping their fingers on the frame of their pictures, looking insolent. Each picture was captioned with

第二十五章搁浅的甲虫第二天早上，哈利的问题得到了回答。 赫敏的《预言家日报》送来了，她把它弄平，在第一版上看了一会儿，大声叫了一声，周围的人都盯着她看。 “什么?哈利和罗恩同时问。 为了回答这个问题，她把报纸摊开在他们面前的桌子上，指着占据整个头版的十张黑白照片，九张是男巫的脸，第十张是女巫的脸。 照片中的一些人在默默地嘲笑；其他人则用手指敲打着相框，一副傲慢的样子。 每张照片都配有文字说明

a name and the crime for which the person had been sent to Azkaban. Antonin Dolohov, read the legend beneath a wizard with a long, pale, twisted face who was sneering up at Harry, convicted of the brutal murders of Gideon and Fabian Prewett. Augustus Rookwood, said the caption beneath a pockmarked man with greasy hair who was leaning against the edge of his picture, looking bored, convicted of leaking Ministry of Magic secrets to He Who Must Not Be Named. But Harry's eyes were drawn to the picture of the witch. Her face had leapt out at him the moment he had seen the page. She had long, dark hair that looked unkempt and straggly in the picture, though he had seen it sleek, thick and shining. She glared up at him through heavily lidded eyes, an arrogant, disdainful smile playing around her thin mouth. Like Sirius, she retained vestiges of great good looks, but something– perhaps Azkaban– had taken most of her beauty. Bellatrix Lestrange, convicted of the torture and permanent incapacitation of Frank and Alice

这个人的名字和被送进阿兹卡班的罪名。 安东宁·多洛霍夫，下面写着一个巫师的传说，他长着一张苍白扭曲的长脸，正朝哈利冷笑，被判残忍杀害吉迪恩和法比安·普威特。 “奥古斯都·卢克伍德，”一个满脸麻子、头发油腻腻的男人倚在照片边上，一副无聊的样子，他被判把魔法部的秘密泄露给了那个连名字都不能提的人。 但是哈利的眼睛被女巫的画像吸引住了。 他一看到那页纸，她的脸就映入了他的眼帘。 她长着一头又长又黑的头发，在照片上显得蓬乱而蓬乱，尽管在他的眼里，她的头发又光滑又浓密，闪闪发光。 她眯着眼睛瞪着他，薄薄的嘴唇上挂着傲慢、轻蔑的微笑。 和小天狼星一样，她也保留了一些漂亮的容貌，但是有什么东西——也许是阿兹卡班——夺走了她大部分的美貌。 贝拉特里克斯·莱斯特兰奇，因折磨弗兰克和爱丽丝而被定罪

Longbottom. Hermione nudged Harry and pointed at the headline over the pictures, which Harry, concentrating on Bellatrix, had not yet read. MASS BREAKOUT FROM AZKABAN MINISTRY FEARS BLACK IS 'RALLYING POINT' FOR OLD DEATH EATERS 'Black?' said Harry loudly. 'Not–?' 'Shhh!' whispered Hermione desperately. 'Not so loud– just read it!' The Ministry of Magic announced late last night that there has been a mass breakout from Azkaban. Speaking to reporters in his private office, Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic, confirmed that ten high-security prisoners escaped in the early hours of yesterday evening and that he has already informed the

隆巴顿。赫敏用胳膊肘推了推哈利，指着照片上方的大标题，哈利正把注意力集中在贝拉特里克斯身上，还没有看到。 阿兹卡班魔法部大规模越狱，担心黑魔法是老食死徒黑魔法的“集结点”？哈利大声说。 “不- ?“嘘!赫敏绝望地小声说。 “别那么大声——读吧！”魔法部昨天深夜宣布阿兹卡班发生了一起大规模越狱事件。 魔法部部长康奈利·福吉在他的私人办公室里对记者证实，有十名高度戒备的囚犯在昨天晚上凌晨逃走了，他已经通知了

Muggle Prime Minister of the dangerous nature of these individuals. 'We find ourselves, most unfortunately, in the same position we were two and a half years ago when the murderer Sirius Black escaped,' said Fudge last night. 'Nor do we think the two breakouts are unrelated. An escape of this magnitude suggests outside help, and we must remember that Black, as the first person ever to break out of Azkaban, would be ideally placed to help others follow in his footsteps. We think it likely that these individuals, who include Black's cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, have rallied around Black as their leader. We are, however, doing all we can to round up the criminals, and we beg the magical community to remain alert and cautious. On no account should any of these individuals be approached.' 'There you are, Harry,' said Ron, looking awestruck. ikcjeo. 'That's why he was happy last night.'

麻瓜首相对这些人的危险性十分警惕。 “最不幸的是，我们发现自己的处境和两年半前杀人犯小天狼星布莱克逃跑时一样。”福吉昨晚说。 “我们也不认为这两起痘痘是毫无关联的。 如此大规模的越狱意味着外界的帮助，我们必须记住，布莱克作为有史以来第一个从阿兹卡班越狱出来的人，他最适合帮助其他人追随他的脚步。 我们认为，包括布莱克的表妹贝拉特里克斯·莱斯特兰奇在内的这些人很可能团结在布莱克的周围，成为他们的领袖。 然而，我们正在尽一切努力追捕罪犯，我们请求魔法界保持警惕和谨慎。 无论如何都不应该接触这些人中的任何一个。“你来了，哈利。”罗恩说，满脸敬畏。 “这就是他昨晚高兴的原因。”

'I don't believe this,' snarled Harry, 'Fudge is blaming the breakout on Sirius?' 'What other options does he have?' said Hermione bitterly. 'He can hardly say, "Sorry, everyone, Dumbledore warned me this might happen, the Azkaban guards have joined Lord Voldemort"– stop whimpering, Ron– "and now Voldemort's worst supporters have broken out, too." I mean, he's spent a good six months telling everyone you and Dumbledore are liars, hasn't he?' Hermione ripped open the newspaper and began to read the report inside while Harry looked around the Great Hall. He could not understand why his fellow students were not looking scared or at least discussing the terrible piece of news on the front page, but very few of them took the newspaper every day like Hermione. There they all were, talking about homework and Quidditch and who knew what other rubbish, when outside these walls ten more Death Eaters had swollen Voldemort's ranks.

“我不相信，”哈利吼道，“福吉把越狱的事归咎于小天狼星？“他还有别的选择吗？”赫敏痛苦地说。 “他几乎不能说，‘对不起，大家，邓布利多警告过我可能会发生这种事，阿兹卡班的守卫已经加入了伏地魔。’——别呜咽了，罗恩——‘现在伏地魔最坏的支持者也出来了。’” 我是说，他花了整整六个月的时间告诉大家你和邓布利多都是骗子，是不是？”赫敏撕开报纸，开始读里面的报道，哈利则在礼堂里四处张望。 他不明白为什么同学们看起来一点也不害怕，或者至少没有在讨论头版上那条可怕的新闻，但他们中很少有人像赫敏那样每天都看报纸。 他们都在那里谈论着家庭作业和魁地奇，谁知道还有什么废话，而墙外又有十个食死徒壮大了伏地魔的队伍。

He glanced up at the staff table. It was a different story there: Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were deep in conversation, both looking extremely grave. Professor Sprout had the Prophet propped against a bottle of ketchup and was reading the front page with such concentration that she was not noticing the gentle drip of egg yolk falling into her lap from her stationary spoon. Meanwhile, at the far end of the table, Professor Umbridge was tucking into a bowl of porridge. For once her pouchy toad's eyes were not sweeping the Great Hall looking for misbehaving students. She scowled as she gulped down her food and every now and then she shot a malevolent glance up the table to where Dumbledore and McGonagall were talking so intently. 'Oh my–' said Hermione wonderingly, still staring at the newspaper. 'What now?' said Harry quickly; he was feeling jumpy. 'It's… horrible,' said Hermione, looking shaken. She folded back page ten of the

他抬头看了看教工桌子。 那里的情况就完全不同了：邓布利多和麦格教授在聚精会神地交谈，两人都显得极其严肃。 斯普劳特教授把《预言家日报》靠在一瓶番茄酱上，全神贯注地读着头版，根本没有注意到蛋黄从固定的勺子里轻轻地滴到她的腿上。 与此同时，在桌子的另一端，乌姆里奇教授正在大口大口地喝着一碗粥。 这一次，她那双肥嘟嘟的癞蛤蟆眼睛没有扫视大礼堂，寻找行为不检点的学生。 她皱着眉头狼吞虎咽地吃东西，不时恶狠狠地朝桌子上方瞥一眼，邓布利多和麦格正在聚聚会神地谈话。 “哦，天哪——”赫敏疑惑地说，眼睛仍然盯着报纸。 “现在该怎么办?哈利赶紧问。他感到紧张不安。 “这……太可怕了。”赫敏说，显得有些发抖。 她折回第十页