9 The Woes of Mrs. Weasley

CHAPTER NINE The Woes of Mrs Weasley Dumbledore's abrupt departure took Harry completely by surprise. He remained sitting where he was in the chained chair, struggling with his feelings of shock and relief. The Wizengamot were all getting to their feet, talking, gathering up their papers and packing them away. Harry stood up. Nobody seemed to be paying him the slightest bit of attention, except the toadlike witch on Fudge's right, who was now gazing down at him instead of at Dumbledore. Ignoring her, he tried to catch Fudge's eye, or Madam Bones's, wanting to ask whether he was free to go, but Fudge seemed

邓布利多的突然离去使哈利大吃一惊。 他仍然坐在那把锁着的椅子上，挣扎着克制自己的震惊和宽慰的感觉。 威森加摩的人都站了起来，一边说着话，一边收拾文件打包走人。 哈利站了起来。似乎没有人注意到他，除了福吉右边那个癞蛤蟆模样的女巫，她现在正低头盯着他，而不是邓布利多。 他不理睬她，试图吸引福吉或博恩斯夫人的目光，想问他是否可以走了，但福吉似乎

quite determined not to notice Harry, and Madam Bones was busy with her briefcase, so he took a few tentative steps towards the exit and, when nobody called him back, broke into a very fast walk. He took the last few steps at a run, wrenched open the door and almost collided with Mr Weasley, who was standing right outside, looking pale and apprehensive. 'Dumbledore didn't say–' 'Cleared,' Harry said, pulling the door closed behind him, 'of all charges!' Beaming, Mr Weasley seized Harry by the shoulders. 'Harry, that's wonderful! Well, of course, they couldn't have found you guilty, not on the evidence, but even so, I can't pretend I wasn't–' But Mr Weasley broke off, because the courtroom door had just opened again. The Wizengamot were filing out. 'Merlin's beard!' exclaimed Mr Weasley wonderingly, pulling Harry aside to let them all

他下定决心不去注意哈利，博恩斯夫人正忙着拿她的公文包，于是他试探着朝出口走了几步，没人叫他回来，他就飞快地走了起来。 他飞快地跑出最后几步，猛地推开门，差点撞到韦斯莱先生。韦斯莱先生就站在门外，脸色苍白，忧心忡忡。 “洗脱了，”哈利说着，随手把门关上，“洗脱了所有指控！”韦斯莱先生喜气洋洋地抓住哈利的肩膀。 “哈利，太好了！”当然，根据证据，他们不可能判你有罪，但即便如此，我也不能假装自己没有——”韦斯莱先生不说话了，因为法庭的门又开了。 威森加摩的人鱼贯而出。 “梅林的胡子!韦斯莱先生惊奇地叫道，把哈利拉到一边，让他们都进来

pass. 'You were tried by the full court?' 'I think so,' said Harry quietly. One or two of the wizards nodded to Harry as they passed and a few, including Madam Bones, said, 'Morning, Arthur,' to Mr Weasley, but most averted their eyes. Cornelius Fudge and the toadlike witch were almost the last to leave the dungeon. Fudge acted as though Mr Weasley and Harry were part of the wall, but again, the witch looked almost appraisingly at Harry as she passed. Last of all to pass was Percy. Like Fudge, he completely ignored his father and Harry; he marched past clutching a large roll of parchment and a handful of spare quills, his back rigid and his nose in the air. The lines around Mr Weasley's mouth tightened slightly, but other than this he gave no sign that he had seen his third son. 'I'm going to take you straight back so you can tell the others the good news,' he said, beckoning Harry forwards as Percy's heels disappeared up the steps to Level Nine. 'I'll drop you off on the way to that toilet in Bethnal Green. Come on…'

通过。“你接受了全体法庭的审判？”“我想是的。”哈利平静地说。 有一两个巫师走过时向哈利点了点头，还有几个，包括博恩斯夫人，对韦斯莱先生说：“早上好，亚瑟。”但大多数人都把目光移开了。 康奈利·福吉和癞蛤蟆模样的女巫几乎是最后离开地下教室的。 福吉表现得好像韦斯莱先生和哈利是墙的一部分，但是女巫走过时又一次用几乎是赞赏的目光看着哈利。 最后通过的是珀西。 和福吉一样，他完全无视父亲和哈利；他大步走过，手里抓着一大卷羊皮纸和一把备用的羽毛笔，背僵直，鼻子朝天。 韦斯莱先生嘴角的皱纹稍稍绷紧了，但除此之外，他没有表现出看到他第三个儿子的迹象。 “我要直接带你回去，这样你就可以把这个好消息告诉其他人了。”他说，招手叫哈利往前走，这时珀西的脚跟消失在通往九层的台阶上了。 “我在去贝斯纳格林厕所的路上让你下车。 来吧……”

'So, what will you have to do about the toilet?' Harry asked, grinning. Everything suddenly seemed five times funnier than usual. It was starting to sink in: he was cleared, he was going back to Hogwarts. 'Oh, it's a simple enough anti-jinx,' said Mr Weasley as they mounted the stairs, 'but it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Harry. Muggle- baiting might strike some wizards as funny, but it's an expression of something much deeper and nastier, and I for one–' Mr Weasley broke off in mid-sentence. They had just reached the ninth-level corridor and Cornelius Fudge was standing a few feet away from them, talking quietly to a tall man with sleek blond hair and a pointed, pale face. The second man turned at the sound of their footsteps. He, too, broke off in mid-conversation, his cold grey eyes narrowed and fixed upon Harry's face. 'Well, well, well… Patronus Potter,' said Lucius Malfoy coolly.

“那么，你要怎么处理厕所呢？”哈利咧嘴笑着问。 突然间，一切都比平常有趣了五倍。 他开始明白了：他被证明无罪，他要回霍格沃茨了。 “哦，这是一个很简单的防恶咒，”他们上楼时韦斯莱先生说，“但问题不在于修复损坏的东西，而在于这种破坏行为背后的态度，哈利。 对一些巫师来说，戏弄麻瓜可能很有趣，但这是一种更深刻、更肮脏的表达，我就是其中之一——”韦斯莱先生说到一半就停住了。 他们刚走到九楼的走廊，康奈利·福吉站在离他们几英尺远的地方，正和一个身材高挑、一头光滑的金发、一张尖尖的苍白脸的男人轻声交谈。 第二个人听到他们的脚步声转过身来。 他也在谈话中戛然而止，他那双冰冷的灰色眼睛眯起，盯着哈利的脸。 “好吧，好吧，好吧……守护神波特。”卢修斯·马尔福冷冷地说。

Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something solid. He had last seen those cold grey eyes through slits in a Death Eater's hood, and last heard that man's voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. Harry could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater. 'The Minister was just telling me about your lucky escape, Potter,' drawled Mr Malfoy. 'Quite astonishing, the way you continue to wriggle out of very tight holes… snakelike, in fact.' Mr Weasley gripped Harry's shoulder in warning. 'Yeah,' said Harry, 'yeah, I'm good at escaping.' Lucius Malfoy raised his eyes to Mr Weasley's face. 'And Arthur Weasley too! What are you doing here, Arthur?'

哈利感到喘不过气来，好像他刚刚撞上了什么坚硬的东西。 他上次是透过食死徒兜帽的缝隙看到那双冰冷的灰眼睛，上次是在伏地魔折磨他的时候听到那个人在黑暗的墓地里嘲笑他的声音。 哈利不敢相信卢修斯·马尔福竟敢直视他的脸。他不敢相信自己在这里，在魔法部，也不敢相信康奈利·福吉在跟他说话，因为就在几个星期前，哈利还告诉福吉马尔福是个食死徒。 “部长刚刚跟我说了你侥幸逃脱的事，波特。”马尔福先生慢吞吞地说。 “真令人吃惊，你能不断地从非常狭小的洞里钻出来……实际上就像蛇一样。”韦斯莱先生抓住哈利的肩膀，警告他。 “是啊，”哈利说，“是啊，我擅长逃跑。”卢修斯·马尔福抬起眼睛望着韦斯莱先生的脸。 “还有亚瑟·韦斯莱！”你在这儿干什么，亚瑟？”

'I work here,' said Mr Weasley curtly. 'Not here, surely?' said Mr Malfoy, raising his eyebrows and glancing towards the door over Mr Weasley's shoulder. 'I thought you were up on the second floor… don't you do something that involves sneaking Muggle artefacts home and bewitching them?' 'No,' Mr Weasley snapped, his fingers now biting into Harry's shoulder. 'What are you doing here, anyway?' Harry asked Lucius Malfoy. 'I don't think private matters between myself and the Minister are any concern of yours, Potter,' said Malfoy, smoothing the front of his robes. Harry distinctly heard the gentle clinking of what sounded like a full pocket of gold. 'Really, just because you are Dumbledore's favourite boy, you must not expect the same indulgence from the rest of us… shall we go up to your office, then, Minister?' 'Certainly,' said Fudge, turning his back on Harry and Mr Weasley. 'This way, Lucius.'

“我在这里工作。”韦斯莱先生简短地说。 “肯定不是在这儿吧？”马尔福说，扬起眉毛，越过韦斯莱先生的肩膀朝门口瞥了一眼。 “我还以为你在二楼呢……你不是把麻瓜的物品偷偷带回家，然后对它们施魔法吗？”“不。”韦斯莱先生厉声说，他的手指咬住了哈利的肩膀。 “你到底在这儿干什么？”哈利问卢修斯·马尔福。 “我认为我和部长之间的私事与你无关，波特。”马尔福说着，抚平了长袍的前襟。 哈利清楚地听到了像装满金子的口袋发出的轻轻的叮当声。 “真的，不能因为你是邓布利多最宠爱的孩子，就指望我们其他人也会这样纵容你……那么，我们到你的办公室去好吗，部长？”“当然可以。”福吉说着，背对着哈利和韦斯莱先生。 “这边走，卢修斯。”