35 Beyond the Veil

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Beyond the Veil Black shapes were emerging out of thin air all around them, blocking their way left and right; eyes glinted through slits in hoods, a dozen lit wand-tips were pointing directly at their hearts; Ginny gave a gasp of horror. 'To me, Potter,' repeated the drawling voice of Lucius Malfoy as he held out his hand, palm up. Harry's insides plummeted sickeningly. They were trapped, and outnumbered two to one. 'To me,' said Malfoy yet again. 'Where's Sirius?' Harry said. Several of the Death Eaters laughed; a harsh female voice from the midst of the shadowy

第三十五章帷幔外黑黑的人影从稀薄的空气中冒出来，挡住了他们左右的去路；眼睛从兜帽的缝隙里闪闪发光，十几个点着的魔杖尖正对着他们的心脏。金妮惊恐地倒吸了一口气。 “对我来说，波特。”卢修斯·马尔福用慢吞吞的声音重复道，他伸出手来，掌心朝上。 哈利的五脏六腑扑腾得难受极了。 他们被困住了，而且人数是他们的两倍。 “对我来说。”马尔福又说。 “小天狼星在哪儿?”哈利说。 几个食死徒笑了。一个刺耳的女声从阴影中传来

figures to Harry's left said triumphantly, 'The Dark Lord always knows!' 'Always,' echoed Malfoy softly. 'Now, give me the prophecy, Potter.' 'I want to know where Sirius is!' 'I want to know where Sirius is!' mimicked the woman to his left. She and her fellow Death Eaters had closed in so that they were mere feet away from Harry and the others, the light from their wands dazzling Harry's eyes. 'You've got him,' said Harry, ignoring the rising panic in his chest, the dread he had been fighting since they had first entered the ninety-seventh row. 'He's here. I know he is.' 'The little baby woke up fwightened and fort what it dweamed was twoo,' said the woman in a horrible, mock baby voice. Harry felt Ron stir beside him. 'Don't do anything,' Harry muttered. 'Not yet–'

哈利左边的人影得意地说：“黑魔王总是知道的！“总是这样。”马尔福轻声附和道。 “现在，把预言球给我，波特。“我要知道小天狼星在哪儿！”“我要知道小天狼星在哪儿！”他左边的女人模仿着说。 她和她的食死徒同伴已经逼近，离哈利和其他人只有几英尺远，他们魔杖发出的光使哈利的眼睛眼花缭乱。 “你抓住他了。”哈利说，不顾他心里不断上升的恐慌，不顾自从他们第一次进入第九十七排以来他一直在克服的恐惧。 “他在这里。我知道他是。“小婴儿被吓醒了，她以为自己梦见的是两个人，”那女人用一种可怕的、模仿婴儿的声音说。 哈利感到罗恩在他身边动了动。 “什么也别做。”哈利低声说。 “没有,”

The woman who had mimicked him let out a raucous scream of laughter. 'You hear him? You hear him? Giving instructions to the other children as though he thinks of fighting us!' 'Oh, you don't know Potter as I do, Bellatrix,' said Malfoy softly. 'He has a great weakness for heroics; the Dark Lord understands this about him. Now give me the prophecy, Potter.' 'I know Sirius is here,' said Harry, though panic was causing his chest to constrict and he felt as though he could not breathe properly. 'I know you've got him!' More of the Death Eaters laughed, though the woman laughed loudest of all. 'It's time you learned the difference between life and dreams, Potter,' said Malfoy. 'Now give me the prophecy, or we start using wands.' 'Go on, then,' said Harry, raising his own wand to chest height. As he did so, the five wands of Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny and Luna rose on either side of him. The knot in Harry's stomach

那个模仿他的女人发出一声沙哑的尖叫。 “你听见了吗？”你听到了吗？ 对其他孩子发号施令，好像他要和我们打架似的！“哦，你不如我了解波特，贝拉特里克斯。”马尔福轻声说。 “他有逞英雄的大毛病；黑魔王了解他这一点。 现在把预言球给我，波特。“我知道小天狼星在这里。”哈利说，但他的恐慌使他的胸膛开始收缩，他觉得自己好像无法正常呼吸。 “我知道你抓住他了！”更多的食死徒笑了起来，不过那个女人笑得最响。 “你是时候学会生活和梦想的区别了，波特。”马尔福说。 “现在把预言球给我，不然我们就用魔杖了。“那就继续吧。”哈利说着，把自己的魔杖举到胸口那么高。 他这样做的时候，罗恩、赫敏、纳威、金妮和卢娜的五根魔杖在他两边站了起来。 哈利的心在打结

tightened. If Sirius really was not here, he had led his friends to their deaths for no reason at all… But the Death Eaters did not strike. 'Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt,' said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. 'Yeah, right!' he said. 'I give you this– prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?' The words were hardly out of his mouth when the female Death Eater shrieked: 'Accio proph––' Harry was just ready for her: he shouted 'Protego!' before she had finished her spell, and though the glass sphere slipped to the tips of his fingers he managed to cling on to it. 'Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter,' she said, her mad eyes staring through the slits in her hood. 'Very well, then–' 'I TOLD YOU, NO!' Lucius Malfoy roared at the woman. 'If you smash it–!' Harry's mind was racing. The Death Eaters wanted this dusty spun-glass sphere. He had no

收紧。如果小天狼星真的不在这里，他就会毫无理由地把他的朋友引向死亡……但是食死徒没有动手。 “把预言球交出来，就不会有人受伤。”马尔福冷冷地说。 轮到哈利笑了。 “是啊,没错!他说。“我给你这个——预言，是吗？” 你会让我们溜回家的，是吗？”话还没说完，女食死徒就尖声叫道：“预言飞来——”哈利正准备迎接她，他喊道：“护身护身！”她的咒语还没念完，玻璃球虽然滑到了他的指尖，但他还是抓住了它。 “哦，他知道怎么玩，波特小宝贝。”她说，疯狂的眼睛透过兜帽的缝隙盯着。 “好吧，那么——”“我告诉过你，不行！”卢修斯·马尔福朝那女人吼道。 “如果你把它打碎——！”哈利的脑子飞快地转着。 食死徒想要这个满是灰尘的玻璃球。 他没有

interest in it. He just wanted to get them all out of this alive, to make sure none of his friends paid a terrible price for his stupidity… The woman stepped forward, away from her fellows, and pulled off her hood. Azkaban had hollowed Bellatrix Lestrange's face, making it gaunt and skull-like, but it was alive with a feverish, fanatical glow. 'You need more persuasion?' she said, her chest rising and falling rapidly. 'Very well– take the smallest one,' she ordered the Death Eaters beside her. 'Let him watch while we torture the little girl. I'll do it.' Harry felt the others close in around Ginny; he stepped sideways so that he was right in front of her, the prophecy held up to his chest. 'You'll have to smash this if you want to attack any of us,' he told Bellatrix. 'I don't think your boss will be too pleased if you come back without it, will he?' She did not move; she merely stared at him, the tip of her tongue moistening her thin mouth.

对它感兴趣。他只想让他们都活着离开这里，确保他的朋友们不会为他的愚蠢付出可怕的代价……那女人离开同伴，走上前，摘下兜帽。 阿兹卡班把贝拉特里克斯·莱斯特兰奇的脸掏空了，憔悴得像个骷髅，但却焕发出狂热的光芒。 “你还需要说服吗？”她说，她的胸膛迅速地起伏着。 “很好——拿最小的那个。”她命令身旁的食死徒。 “让他看着我们折磨那个小女孩。 我来做。”哈利感到其他人把金妮团团围住了。他侧身走到她的正前方，预言球举在胸前。 “如果你想攻击我们中的任何一个人，就必须把这个砸碎。”他对贝拉特里克斯说。 “我想如果你不带它回来，你的老板会不太高兴的，对吗？”她没有动；她只是盯着他，舌尖润湿了她那薄薄的嘴巴。

'So,' said Harry, 'what kind of prophecy are we talking about, anyway?' He could not think what to do but to keep talking. Neville's arm was pressed against his, and he could feel him shaking; he could feel one of the others' quickened breath on the back of his head. He was hoping they were all thinking hard about ways to get out of this, because his mind was blank. 'What kind of prophecy?' repeated Bellatrix, the grin fading from her face. 'You jest, Harry Potter.' 'Nope, not jesting,' said Harry, his eyes flicking from Death Eater to Death Eater, looking for a weak link, a space through which they could escape. 'How come Voldemort wants it?' Several of the Death Eaters let out low hisses. 'You dare speak his name?' whispered Bellatrix. 'Yeah,' said Harry, maintaining his tight grip on the glass ball, expecting another attempt to bewitch it from him. 'Yeah, I've got no problem with saying Vol––'

“那么，”哈利说，“我们到底在谈论什么样的预言呢？”他想不出该怎么办，只好继续说下去。 纳威的胳膊紧紧地贴着他的胳膊，他能感觉到他在颤抖。他能感觉到另一个人急促的呼吸吹在他的后脑勺上。 他希望他们都在努力想办法摆脱困境，因为他的脑子一片空白。 “什么样的预言？”贝拉特里克斯重复道，脸上的笑容渐渐消失了。 “你开玩笑吧，哈利·波特。“不，不是开玩笑。”哈利说，他的目光从一个食死徒转到另一个食死徒，寻找一个薄弱环节，一个他们可以逃跑的空间。 “伏地魔为什么想要它？”几个食死徒发出低沉的嘶嘶声。 “你竟敢说出他的名字？”贝拉特里克斯小声说。 “是啊。”哈利说，继续紧紧地抓着玻璃球，期待着有人用魔法把它从他手里夺走。 “是啊，我说伏——”