4 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

CHAPTER FOUR Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place 'What's the Order of the –?' Harry began. 'Not here, boy!' snarled Moody. 'Wait till we're inside!' He pulled the piece of parchment out of Harry's hand and set fire to it with his wand-tip. As the message curled into flames and floated to the ground, Harry looked around at the houses again. They were standing outside number eleven; he looked to the left and saw number ten; to the right, however, was number thirteen. 'But where's–?'

第四章格里莫广场12号“什么——？”哈利开始了。 “在这儿不行，孩子！”穆迪吼道。 “等我们进去了再说！”他从哈利手中夺过那张羊皮纸，用魔杖尖点着了它。 字条卷成火焰，飘到地上，哈利又环顾了一下周围的房子。 他们站在十一号房间外面；他看了看左边，看到了十号；然而，右边是13号。 “可是——在哪里?”

'Think about what you've just memorised,' said Lupin quietly. Harry thought, and no sooner had he reached the part about number twelve, Grimmauld Place, than a battered door emerged out of nowhere between numbers eleven and thirteen, followed swiftly by dirty walls and grimy windows. It was as though an extra house had inflated, pushing those on either side out of its way. Harry gaped at it. The stereo in number eleven thudded on. Apparently the Muggles inside hadn't felt anything. 'Come on, hurry,' growled Moody, prodding Harry in the back. Harry walked up the worn stone steps, staring at the newly materialised door. Its black paint was shabby and scratched. The silver doorknocker was in the form of a twisted serpent. There was no keyhole or letterbox. Lupin pulled out his wand and tapped the door once. Harry heard many loud, metallic clicks and what sounded like the clatter of a chain. The door creaked open.

“想想你刚刚记住的东西。”卢平平静地说。 哈利想。他刚念到格里莫广场12号，就在11号和13号之间突然出现了一扇破破烂烂的门，紧接着是肮脏的墙壁和肮脏的窗户。 就好像一座额外的房子膨胀起来了，把两边的房子都推开了。 哈利目瞪口呆地看着它。11号房间的音响响个不停。 里面的麻瓜显然没有感觉到什么。 “快点，快点。”穆迪吼道，在背后捅了捅哈利。 哈利走上破旧的石阶，盯着新出现的那扇门。 它的黑漆破旧不堪，有划痕。 银色的门环是一条扭曲的蛇的形状。 没有锁孔，也没有信箱。 卢平抽出魔杖，轻轻地敲了一下门。 哈利听到许多响亮的金属咔哒声，还有听起来像是链子的咔哒声。 门嘎吱一声开了。

'Get in quick, Harry,' Lupin whispered, 'but don't go far inside and don't touch anything.' Harry stepped over the threshold into the almost total darkness of the hall. He could smell damp, dust and a sweetish, rotting smell; the place had the feeling of a derelict building. He looked over his shoulder and saw the others filing in behind him, Lupin and Tonks carrying his trunk and Hedwig's cage. Moody was standing on the top step releasing the balls of light the Put-Outer had stolen from the streetlamps; they flew back to their bulbs and the square glowed momentarily with orange light before Moody limped inside and closed the front door, so that the darkness in the hall became complete. 'Here–' He rapped Harry hard over the head with his wand; Harry felt as though something hot was trickling down his back this time and knew that the Disillusionment Charm must have lifted. 'Now stay still, everyone, while I give us a bit of light in here,' Moody whispered.

“快进去，哈利，”卢平小声说，“但是不要往里面走太远，也不要碰任何东西。”哈利跨过门槛，走进了几乎一片漆黑的大厅。 他能闻到潮湿、灰尘和一股甜腻的腐烂味；这个地方给人一种废弃建筑的感觉。 他扭头一看，看见其他人在他身后鱼贯而入，卢平和唐克斯提着他的衣箱和海德薇的笼子。 穆迪站在最高的台阶上，释放熄灯器从路灯上偷来的光球。他们都飞回了灯泡，广场瞬间闪着橘黄色的光芒，穆迪一瘸一拐地走了进去，关上了前门，大厅里一片漆黑。 “这儿——”他用魔杖重重地敲了敲哈利的头。哈利觉得好像有什么热乎乎的东西顺着他的后背往下流，他知道幻身咒一定解除了。 “好了，大家都不要动，我给大家点光。”穆迪小声说。

The others' hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a dying person. He heard a soft hissing noise and then old-fashioned gas lamps sputtered into life all along the walls, casting a flickering insubstantial light over the peeling wallpaper and threadbare carpet of a long, gloomy hallway, where a cobwebby chandelier glimmered overhead and age-blackened portraits hung crooked on the walls. Harry heard something scuttling behind the skirting board. Both the chandelier and the candelabra on a rickety table nearby were shaped like serpents. There were hurried footsteps and Ron's mother, Mrs Weasley, emerged from a door at the far end of the hall. She was beaming in welcome as she hurried towards them, though Harry noticed that she was rather thinner and paler than she had been last time he had seen her. 'Oh, Harry, it's lovely to see you!' she whispered, pulling him into a rib-cracking hug before holding him at arm's length and examining him critically. ikcjeo. 'You're looking peaky; you need

其他人安静的声音给了哈利一种奇怪的不祥预感。他们仿佛走进了一个垂死的人的房子。 他听到一声微弱的嘶嘶声，然后老式的煤气灯在墙上噼里啪啦地亮了起来，在一条阴暗的长走廊上，一盏布满蜘蛛网的枝形吊灯在头顶上闪烁，墙上歪歪斜斜地挂着几幅因岁月变黑的肖像。 哈利听见有什么东西在踢脚板后面飞快地跑着。 枝形吊灯和旁边一张摇摇晃晃的桌子上的小烛台都是蛇形的。 一阵急促的脚步声传来，罗恩的母亲韦斯莱夫人从大厅尽头的一扇门里走了出来。 她朝他们匆匆走来，脸上带着欢迎的笑容，不过哈利注意到，她比上次见到她时瘦了许多，脸色也苍白了许多。 “哦，哈利，见到你真高兴！”她低声说，把他紧紧地搂在怀里，然后把他拉到一臂远的地方，仔细地打量着他。 “你看起来很憔悴；你需要

feeding up, but you'll have to wait a bit for dinner, I'm afraid.' She turned to the gang of wizards behind him and whispered urgently, 'He's just arrived, the meeting's started.' The wizards behind Harry all made noises of interest and excitement and began filing past him towards the door through which Mrs Weasley had just come. Harry made to follow Lupin, but Mrs Weasley held him back. 'No, Harry, the meeting's only for members of the Order. Ron and Hermione are upstairs, you can wait with them until the meeting's over, then we'll have dinner. And keep your voice down in the hall,' she added in an urgent whisper. 'Why?' 'I don't want anything to wake up.' 'What d'you–?' 'I'll explain later, I've got to hurry, I'm supposed to be at the meeting– I'll just show you where you're sleeping.'

吃饱了，不过恐怕你得等一会儿才能吃晚饭。”她转向哈利身后的那群巫师，急切地小声说：“他刚到，会议开始了。”哈利身后的巫师们都发出了兴趣和兴奋的声音，开始从他身边鱼贯而过，朝韦斯莱夫人刚才走过的那扇门走去。 哈利想跟着卢平，但韦斯莱夫人把他拉了回来。 “不行，哈利，这个会议只对凤凰社的成员开放。 罗恩和赫敏在楼上，你可以和他们一起等到会议结束，然后我们就去吃晚饭。 “在大厅里小声点，”她又急切地低声说。 “为什么?“我不想吵醒任何东西。”“你说什么——？”“我以后再解释，我得抓紧时间，我要去开会——我带你去你睡觉的地方。”

Pressing her finger to her lips, she led him on tiptoe past a pair of long, moth-eaten curtains, behind which Harry supposed there must be another door, and after skirting a large umbrella stand that looked as though it had been made from a severed troll's leg they started up the dark staircase, passing a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall. A closer look showed Harry that the heads belonged to house- elves. All of them had the same rather snout-like nose. Harry's bewilderment deepened with every step he took. What on earth were they doing in a house that looked as though it belonged to the Darkest of wizards? 'Mrs Weasley, why–?' 'Ron and Hermione will explain everything, dear, I've really got to dash,' Mrs Weasley whispered distractedly. 'There–' they had reached the second landing, '–you're the door on the right. I'll call you when it's over.' And she hurried off downstairs again.

她把手指贴在嘴唇上，带着他踮着脚尖走过一扇被虫蛀的长窗帘，哈利猜想帘子后面一定还有一扇门。他们绕过一个看起来像是用巨怪断腿做成的大伞架，走上黑暗的楼梯，经过墙上的饰板上挂着一排萎缩的人头。 哈利仔细一看，发现那些脑袋是家养小精灵的。 他们都长着一样的鼻子。 哈利每走一步，都更加困惑。 他们究竟在一所看上去属于最黑暗巫师的房子里做什么？ “韦斯莱夫人，为什么——？”“罗恩和赫敏会解释一切的，亲爱的，我真的得赶紧走了。”韦斯莱夫人心烦意乱地小声说。 “那儿——”他们走到二楼楼梯口，“你在右边那扇门。 结束后我会打电话给你的。”于是她又匆匆下楼去了。