26 Seen and Unforeseen

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Seen and Unforeseen Luna said vaguely that she did not know how soon Rita's interview with Harry would appear in The Quibbler, that her father was expecting a lovely long article on recent sightings of Crumple- Horned Snorkacks, '–and of course, that'll be a very important story, so Harry's might have to wait for the following issue,' said Luna. Harry had not found it an easy experience to talk about the night when Voldemort had returned. Rita had pressed him for every little detail and he had given her everything he could remember, knowing that this was his one big opportunity to tell the world the truth. He wondered how people would react to the story. He guessed that it would

卢娜含糊地说，她不知道丽塔对哈利的采访什么时候会出现在《唱唱反调》上，她父亲还在等着一篇关于最近看到角鼾兽克鲁普尔的可爱的长文。“当然，那将是一个非常重要的故事，所以哈利的可能要等到下一期了。”卢娜说。 哈利觉得谈论伏地魔回来的那个夜晚并不容易。 丽塔向他追问每一个小细节，他把他能记得的一切都告诉了她，因为他知道这是他告诉世界真相的大好机会。 他想知道人们对这个故事会有什么反应。 他猜想会的

confirm a lot of people in the view that he was completely insane, not least because his story would be appearing alongside utter rubbish about Crumple-Horned Snorkacks. But the breakout of Bellatrix Lestrange and her fellow Death Eaters had given Harry a burning desire to do something, whether or not it worked… 'Can't wait to see what Umbridge thinks of you going public,' said Dean, sounding awestruck at dinner on Monday night. Seamus was shovelling down large amounts of chicken and ham pie on Dean's other side, but Harry knew he was listening. 'It's the right thing to do, Harry,' said Neville, who was sitting opposite him. He was rather pale, but went on in a low voice, 'It must have been… tough… talking about it… was it?' 'Yeah,' mumbled Harry, 'but people have got to know what Voldemort's capable of, haven't they?' 'That's right,' said Neville, nodding, 'and his Death Eaters, too… people should know…' Neville left his sentence hanging and returned to his baked potato. Seamus looked up, but when

这证实了很多人认为他完全疯了的看法，尤其是因为他的故事会和关于弯角鼾兽的废话一起出现。 但是贝拉特里克斯·莱斯特兰奇和她的食死徒同伙越狱后，哈利强烈地想做点什么，不管它是否奏效……“等不及想知道乌姆里奇对你把事情公诸于众会有什么看法。” 西莫正在迪安的另一边大口大口地吃鸡肉和火腿派，但哈利知道他在听。 “这么做是对的，哈利。”坐在他对面的纳威说。 他脸色相当苍白，但低声继续说道：“谈论这件事一定……很难受……是吗？”“是啊，”哈利咕哝道，“但人们总得知道伏地魔的能耐，是不是？”“对，”纳威点点头说，“还有他的食死徒……人们应该知道……”纳威放下了他的判决，继续吃他的烤土豆。 西莫抬起头来，可是

he caught Harry's eye he looked quickly back at his plate again. After a while, Dean, Seamus and Neville departed for the common room, leaving Harry and Hermione at the table waiting for Ron, who had not yet had dinner because of Quidditch practice. Cho Chang walked into the Hall with her friend Marietta. Harry's stomach gave an unpleasant lurch, but she did not look over at the Gryffindor table, and sat down with her back to him. 'Oh, I forgot to ask you,' said Hermione brightly, glancing over at the Ravenclaw table, 'what happened on your date with Cho? How come you were back so early?' 'Er… well, it was…' said Harry, pulling a dish of rhubarb crumble towards him and helping himself to seconds, 'a complete fiasco, now you mention it.' And he told her what had happened in Madam Puddifoot's teashop. '…so then,' he finished several minutes later, as the final bit of crumble disappeared, 'she jumps up, right, and says, "I'll see you around, Harry,"

他和哈利的目光相遇了，他又迅速地看了看自己的盘子。 过了一会儿，迪安、西莫和纳威去了公共休息室，留下哈利和赫敏坐在桌旁等罗恩，罗恩因为魁地奇训练还没有吃晚饭。 秋·张和她的朋友玛丽埃塔走进大厅。 哈利的肚子难受得难受，但她没有看格兰芬多的桌子，而是背对着他坐了下来。 “哦，我忘了问你，”赫敏欢快地说，扫了一眼拉文克劳的桌子，“你和秋的约会怎么样了？ 你怎么回来得这么早？“嗯……嗯，是……”哈利说着把一盘大黄碎拉到自己面前，又吃了几块，“彻底惨败，既然你这么说了。”他把帕迪富特夫人茶馆里发生的事告诉了她。 “……然后，”几分钟后他说完，最后一块面包屑消失了，“她跳起来，对我说，‘回头见，哈利。’”

and runs out of the place!' He put down his spoon and looked at Hermione. 'I mean, what was all that about? What was going on?' Hermione glanced over at the back of Cho's head and sighed. 'Oh, Harry,' she said sadly. 'Well, I'm sorry, but you were a bit tactless.' 'Me, tactless?' said Harry, outraged. 'One minute we were getting on fine, next minute she was telling me that Roger Davies asked her out and how she used to go and snog Cedric in that stupid teashop– how was I supposed to feel about that?' 'Well, you see,' said Hermione, with the patient air of someone explaining that one plus one equals two to an over-emotional toddler, 'you shouldn't have told her that you wanted to meet me halfway through your date.' 'But, but,' spluttered Harry, 'but– you told me to meet you at twelve and to bring her along, how was I supposed to do that without telling her?' 'You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air.

然后跑出了这个地方！”他放下勺子，看着赫敏。 “我是说，这是怎么回事？” 发生了什么事？”赫敏瞥了一眼秋·张的后脑勺，叹了口气。 “哦，哈利。”她伤心地说。 “嗯，我很抱歉，但你有点不圆滑。“我，不圆滑？”哈利愤怒地说。 “前一分钟我们还相处得很好，下一分钟她就告诉我罗杰·戴维斯约她出去，说她过去常常去那个愚蠢的茶馆和塞德里克接吻——我该怎么想呢？”“嗯，你知道，”赫敏耐心地说，就像有人对一个过于情绪化的小孩解释一加一等于二，“你不应该在约会进行到一半时告诉她你想和我见面。“可是，可是，”哈利语无伦次地说，“可是——你叫我十二点和你见面，把她也带来，我怎么能不告诉她就这么做呢？”“你应该用不同的方式告诉她。”赫敏说，仍然带着那种让人抓狂的耐心。

'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me and would she please, please come along with you and hopefully you'd be able to get away more quickly. And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am, too,' Hermione added as an afterthought. 'But I don't think you're ugly,' said Harry, bemused. Hermione laughed. 'Harry, you're worse than Ron… well, no, you're not,' she sighed, as Ron himself came stumping into the Hall splattered with mud and looking grumpy. 'Look– you upset Cho when you said you were going to meet me, so she tried to make you jealous. It was her way of trying to find out how much you liked her.' 'Is that what she was doing?' said Harry, as Ron dropped on to the bench opposite them and pulled every dish within reach towards him. 'Well,

“你应该说这真的很烦人，但我让你答应一起去三把扫帚，你真的不想去，你宁愿和她呆上一整天，但不幸的是，你觉得你真的应该见见我，请你请你和你一起去，希望你能快点离开。 “你也应该提一下你觉得我有多丑。”赫敏补充道。 “但我不认为你丑。”哈利困惑地说。 赫敏笑了。“哈利，你比罗恩还坏……嗯，不，你还好。”她叹了口气，这时罗恩自己也蹒跚地走进礼堂，身上溅满了泥，一副气呼呼的样子。 “听着——你说你要来见我的时候让秋·张心烦意乱，所以她想让你吃醋。 这是她想知道你有多喜欢她的方式。“这就是她在做的事吗？”哈利说，罗恩一屁股坐在他们对面的长凳上，把够得着的盘子都拉过来。 “好吧,

wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?' 'Girls don't often ask questions like that,' said Hermione. 'Well, they should!' said Harry forcefully. 'Then I could've just told her I fancy her, and she wouldn't have had to get herself all worked up again about Cedric dying!' 'I'm not saying what she did was sensible,' said Hermione, as Ginny joined them, just as muddy as Ron and looking equally disgruntled. 'I'm just trying to make you see how she was feeling at the time.' 'You should write a book,' Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, 'translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.' 'Yeah,' said Harry fervently, looking over at the Ravenclaw table. Cho had just got up, and, still not looking at him, she left the Great Hall. Feeling rather depressed, he looked back at Ron and Ginny. 'So, how was Quidditch practice?' 'It was a nightmare,' said Ron in a surly voice.

如果她直接问我，我是不是更喜欢她而不是你，不是更容易吗？“女孩子不常问这样的问题。”赫敏说。 “嗯，他们应该！”哈利有力地说。 “那样我就可以直接告诉她我喜欢她，她就不必再为塞德里克的死而激动了！”“我并不是说她的做法是明智的。”赫敏说，这时金妮也加入了他们，她和罗恩一样浑身是泥，一副同样不高兴的样子。 “我只是想让你明白她当时的感受。“你应该写一本书，”罗恩一边切土豆一边对赫敏说，“把女孩们做的疯狂的事情翻译出来，这样男孩们就能理解了。”“是啊。”哈利激动地说，望着拉文克劳的桌子。 秋·张刚刚站起来，仍然没有看他，就离开了礼堂。 他沮丧地回头看着罗恩和金妮。 “那么，魁地奇训练怎么样？”“真是一场噩梦。”罗恩粗暴地说。