10 The House of Gaunt

CHAPTER TEN The House of Gaunt For the rest of the week's Potions lessons Harry continued to follow the Half-Blood Prince's instructions wherever they deviated from Libatius Borage's, with the result that by their fourth lesson Slughorn was raving about Harry's abilities, saying that he had rarely taught anyone so talented. Neither Ron nor Hermione was delighted by this. Although Harry had offered to share his book with both of them, Ron had more difficulty deciphering the handwriting than Harry did, and could not keep asking Harry to read aloud or it might look suspicious. Hermione, meanwhile, was resolutely ploughing on with what she called the 'official' instructions, but becoming increasingly

第十章冈特学院在这一周剩下的魔药课上，哈利在任何偏离利巴修斯·波拉日的地方都继续听从混血王子的指示，结果到第四节课时，斯拉格霍恩对哈利的能力大加赞赏，说他很少教过这么有天赋的人。 罗恩和赫敏听了都不高兴。 虽然哈利提出要把他的书分享给他们俩，但罗恩辨认字迹比哈利更困难，他不能一直要求哈利大声朗读，否则会引起怀疑。 与此同时，赫敏坚决地按照她所谓的“官方”指示继续努力，但越来越吃力了

bad-tempered as they yielded poorer results than the Prince's. Harry wondered vaguely who the Half-Blood Prince had been. Although the amount of homework they had been given prevented him from reading the whole of his copy of Advanced Potion-Making, he had skimmed through it sufficiently to see that there was barely a page on which the Prince had not made additional notes, not all of them concerned with potion-making. Here and there were directions for what looked like spells that the Prince had made up himself. 'Or herself,' said Hermione irritably, overhearing Harry pointing some of these out to Ron in the common room on Saturday evening. 'It might have been a girl. I think the handwriting looks more like a girl's than a boy's.' 'The Half-Blood Prince, he was called,' Harry said. 'How many girls have been princes?' Hermione seemed to have no answer to this. She merely scowled and twitched her essay on 'The Principles of Re-Materialisation' away from Ron, who was trying to read it upside-down.

他们脾气暴躁，结果比王子的差。 哈利隐约想知道混血王子是谁。 虽然作业太多，他没能把那本《高级魔药制作》通读一遍，但他大致浏览了一下，发现王子几乎在每一页上都做了额外的注释，而且并不是所有的注释都与魔药制作有关。 到处都是指示，好像是王子自己编的咒语。 “或者是她自己。”星期六晚上，赫敏在公共休息室里无意中听到哈利把这些东西指给罗恩看。 “可能是个女孩。 我觉得这笔迹更像是女孩的，而不是男孩的。“人们叫他混血王子。”哈利说。 “有多少女孩当过王子？”赫敏似乎无言以对。 她只是皱了皱眉头，把她那篇关于“物质化原理”的文章从罗恩手里夺了过去，罗恩正试图把它倒过来读。

Harry looked at his watch and hurriedly put the old copy of Advanced Potion-Making back into his bag. 'It's five to eight, I'd better go, I'll be late for Dumbledore.' 'Ooooh!' gasped Hermione, looking up at once. 'Good luck! We'll wait up, we want to hear what he teaches you!' 'Hope it goes OK,' said Ron, and the pair of them watched Harry leave through the portrait hole. Harry proceeded through deserted corridors, though he had to step hastily behind a statue when Professor Trelawney appeared round a corner, muttering to herself as she shuffled a pack of dirty-looking playing cards, reading them as she walked. 'Two of spades: conflict,' she murmured, as she passed the place where Harry crouched, hidden. 'Seven of spades: an ill omen. Ten of spades: violence. Knave of spades: a dark young man, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the questioner–'

哈利看了看表，赶紧把那本旧的《高级魔药制作》放回书包里。 “现在是差五分八点，我得走了，见邓布利多要迟到了。“唔!赫敏喘着气说，立刻抬起头来。 “祝你好运!我们等着，我们想听听他教你什么！“希望一切顺利。”罗恩说，两人看着哈利从肖像洞口离开。 哈利穿过空无一人的走廊，但当特里劳妮教授从拐角处出现时，他不得不赶紧走到一座雕像后面，她一边喃喃自语，一边洗着一副看起来很脏的扑克牌，一边走一边看。 “黑桃2：冲突。”她走过哈利蹲着躲着的地方，低声说。 黑桃七：凶兆。 黑桃10：暴力。黑桃杰克：一个皮肤黝黑的年轻人，可能有麻烦，不喜欢问问题的人——”

She stopped dead, right on the other side of Harry's statue. 'Well, that can't be right,' she said, annoyed, and Harry heard her reshuffling vigorously as she set off again, leaving nothing but a whiff of cooking sherry behind her. Harry waited until he was quite sure she had gone, then hurried off again until he reached the spot in the seventh-floor corridor where a single gargoyle stood against the wall. 'Acid Pops,' said Harry. The gargoyle leapt aside; the wall behind it slid apart, and a moving spiral stone staircase was revealed, on to which Harry stepped, so that he was carried in smooth circles up to the door with the brass knocker that led to Dumbledore's office. Harry knocked. 'Come in,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'Good evening, sir,' said Harry, walking into the Headmaster's office. 'Ah, good evening, Harry. Sit down,' said Dumbledore, smiling. 'I hope you've had an enjoyable first week back at school?'

她突然停了下来，就在哈利雕像的另一边。 “嗯，那不可能是对的。”她恼火地说，哈利听见她使劲地挪动脚步，又出发了，身后只留下一股雪利酒的味道。 哈利一直等到他确信她已经走了，才又匆匆走开，一直走到七楼走廊的地方，只见一个石像鬼靠着墙站着。 “酸汽水。”哈利说。石像鬼跳到一边；它后面的墙裂开了，露出一道旋转的石头楼梯，哈利走上楼梯，被人轻轻地转了一圈，来到邓布利多办公室的黄铜门环门前。 哈利敲了敲门。“请进。”邓布利多的声音说。 “晚上好，先生。”哈利说着走进校长办公室。 “啊，晚上好，哈利。“坐下。”邓布利多微笑着说。 “我希望你开学的第一个星期过得愉快。”

'Yes thanks, sir,' said Harry. 'You must have been busy, a detention under your belt already!' 'Er…' began Harry awkwardly, but Dumbledore did not look too stern. 'I have arranged with Professor Snape that you will do your detention next Saturday instead.' 'Right,' said Harry, who had more pressing matters on his mind than Snape's detention, and now looked around surreptitiously for some indication of what Dumbledore was planning to do with him that evening. The circular office looked just as it always did: the delicate silver instruments stood on spindle-legged tables, puffing smoke and whirring; portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses dozed in their frames; and Dumbledore's magnificent phoenix, Fawkes, stood on his perch behind the door, watching Harry with bright interest. It did not even look as though Dumbledore had cleared a space for duelling practice. 'So, Harry,' said Dumbledore, in a businesslike voice. 'You have been wondering, I am sure, what

“好的，谢谢，先生。”哈利说。 “你一定很忙，你已经被关禁闭了！”“嗯……”哈利尴尬地说，但邓布利多看上去并不太严厉。 “我已经和斯内普教授商量好了，把你的关禁闭改到下周六。“好吧。”哈利说，他脑子里有比斯内普的关禁闭更紧迫的事情，于是偷偷地四下张望，想知道邓布利多那天晚上打算对他做些什么。 圆形办公室看上去和往常一样：细长腿的桌子上摆着精致的银器，喷着烟，呼呼作响；历届校长的肖像在相框里打瞌睡；邓布利多那只漂亮的凤凰福克斯站在门后的栖木上，兴致勃勃地望着哈利。 邓布利多甚至没有腾出地方来练习决斗。 “那么，哈利。”邓布利多用公事公办的口气说。 “我敢肯定，你一直在想什么

I have planned for you during these– for want of a better word– lessons?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Well, I have decided that it is time, now that you know what prompted Lord Voldemort to try and kill you fifteen years ago, for you to be given certain information.' There was a pause. 'You said, at the end of last term, you were going to tell me everything,' said Harry. It was hard to keep a note of accusation from his voice. 'Sir,' he added. 'And so I did,' said Dumbledore placidly. 'I told you everything I know. From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. From hereon in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.' 'But you think you're right?' said Harry.

我在这些——找不到更好的词来形容——课程中为你计划了些什么？“好吧，既然你知道了十五年前伏地魔试图杀死你的原因，我认为现在是时候告诉你一些情况了。”一阵沉默。 “上学期末，你说过要把一切都告诉我。”哈利说。 他的声音里很难不带一丝指责。 “先生，”他又说。“我就是这么做的。”邓布利多平静地说。 “我把我知道的一切都告诉你了。 从这一点开始，我们将离开坚实的事实基础，一起穿越记忆的模糊沼泽，进入最狂野的猜测丛林。 从现在开始，哈利，我可能就像汉弗莱·贝尔彻一样大错特错了，他认为是时候做一口奶酪大锅了。”“但你认为你是对的？哈利问。