14 Felix Felicis

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Felix Felicis Harry had Herbology first thing the following morning. He had been unable to tell Ron and Hermione about his lesson with Dumbledore over breakfast for fear of being overheard, but he filled them in as they walked across the vegetable patch towards the greenhouses. The weekend's brutal wind had died out at last; the weird mist had returned and it took them a little longer than usual to find the correct greenhouse. 'Wow, scary thought, the boy You-Know-Who,' said Ron quietly, as they took their places around one of the gnarled Snargaluff stumps that formed that term's project, and began pulling on their protective gloves. 'But I still don't get why

第十四章福灵剂第二天早上，哈利第一件事就是上草药课。 吃早饭的时候，他没能把邓布利多给他上的课告诉罗恩和赫敏，怕被他们听到，但当他们穿过菜地走向温室的时候，他给他们讲了一遍。 周末的狂风终于停了；奇怪的雾又回来了，他们花了比平时稍长的时间才找到正确的温室。 “哇，真是可怕的想法，那个神秘人。”罗恩轻声说，这时他们在一棵多节的疙瘩疙瘩树桩周围坐了下来，开始戴上防护手套，那是本学期的项目。 但我还是不明白为什么

Dumbledore's showing you all this. I mean, it's really interesting and everything, but what's the point?' 'Dunno,' said Harry, inserting a gum shield. 'But he says it's all important and it'll help me survive.' 'I think it's fascinating,' said Hermione earnestly. 'It makes absolute sense to know as much about Voldemort as possible. How else will you find out his weaknesses?' 'So how was Slughorn's latest party?' Harry asked her thickly through the gum shield. 'Oh, it was quite fun, really,' said Hermione, now putting on protective goggles. 'I mean, he drones on about famous ex-pupils a bit, and he absolutely fawns on McLaggen because he's so well-connected, but he gave us some really nice food and he introduced us to Gwenog Jones.' 'Gwenog Jones?' said Ron, his eyes widening under his own goggles. 'The Gwenog Jones? Captain of the Holyhead Harpies?' 'That's right,' said Hermione. 'Personally, I thought she was a bit full of herself, but

邓布利多给你看了这些。 我是说，这真的很有趣，但有什么意义呢？“不知道。”哈利说着，插进了一个口香糖护盾。 但他说这些都很重要，能帮我活下去。“我觉得很有意思。”赫敏认真地说。 “尽可能多地了解伏地魔是绝对有意义的。 不然你怎么找出他的弱点？“斯拉格霍恩最近的聚会怎么样？”哈利隔着口香糖保护罩问她。 “哦，真的很有趣。”赫敏说着，戴上了护目镜。 “我的意思是，他喋喋不休地谈论一些著名的前学生，他绝对是在讨好麦克拉根，因为他关系很好，但他给了我们一些非常美味的食物，并把我们介绍给了格温诺格·琼斯。”“格韦诺格·琼斯？”罗恩说，他的眼睛在护目镜下面睁得大大的。 “格温诺格·琼斯？”霍利黑德哈比的队长？“没错。”赫敏说。 “就我个人而言，我觉得她有点自以为是，但是

'Quite enough chat over here!' said Professor Sprout briskly, bustling over and looking stern. 'You're lagging behind, everybody else has started and Neville's already got his first pod!' They looked round; sure enough, there sat Neville with a bloody lip and several nasty scratches along the side of his face, but clutching an unpleasantly pulsating green object about the size of a grapefruit. 'OK, Professor, we're starting now!' said Ron, adding quietly, when she had turned away again, 'Should've used Muffliato, Harry.' 'No, we shouldn't!' said Hermione at once, looking, as she always did, intensely cross at the thought of the Half-Blood Prince and his spells. 'Well, come on… we'd better get going…' She gave the other two an apprehensive look; they all took deep breaths and then dived at the gnarled stump between them. It sprang to life at once; long, prickly, bramble- like vines flew out of the top and whipped through the air. One tangled itself in Hermione's hair and Ron beat it back with a pair of secateurs; Harry

“这里的谈话够多了！”斯普劳特教授轻快地说，匆匆走过来，神情严肃。 “你落在后面了，其他人都开始了，纳威已经拿到了他的第一个荚果！”他们环顾四周；果然，纳威坐在那里，嘴唇流血，脸侧面有几处令人讨厌的抓痕，但手里抓着一个葡萄柚大小的、令人讨厌的、跳动着的绿色物体。 “好了，教授，我们现在开始！”罗恩说，等她又转过身去，他又轻声补充道，“应该用消音器的，哈利。“不，我们不应该！”赫敏立刻说，一想到混血王子和他的魔咒，她就像往常一样怒不可遏。 “好了，走吧……我们最好走吧……”她忧虑地看了另外两个孩子一眼。他们都深吸了一口气，然后扑向他们之间那根粗糙的树桩。 它立刻活了起来；长长的、带刺的、像荆棘一样的藤蔓从树顶飞了出来，在空中疾驰。 其中一只缠在赫敏的头发上，罗恩用一把剪发剪刀把它打了回去。哈利

succeeded in trapping a couple of vines and knotting them together; a hole opened in the middle of all the tentacle-like branches; Hermione plunged her arm bravely into this hole, which closed like a trap around her elbow; Harry and Ron tugged and wrenched at the vines, forcing the hole to open again and Hermione snatched her arm free, clutching in her fingers a pod just like Neville's. At once, the prickly vines shot back inside and the gnarled stump sat there looking like an innocently dead lump of wood. 'You know, I don't think I'll be having any of these in my garden when I've got my own place,' said Ron, pushing his goggles up on to his forehead and wiping sweat from his face. 'Pass me a bowl,' said Hermione, holding the pulsating pod at arm's length; Harry handed one over and she dropped the pod into it with a look of disgust on her face. 'Don't be squeamish, squeeze it out, they're best when they're fresh!' called Professor Sprout. 'Anyway,' said Hermione, continuing their interrupted conversation as though a lump of

成功地捕获了几根藤蔓，并把它们结在一起；在所有触手状的树枝中间开了一个洞；赫敏勇敢地把胳膊伸进去，洞口像陷阱一样把她的胳膊肘围了起来。哈利和罗恩又拉又扭藤蔓，洞口又打开了，赫敏挣脱了胳膊，手里抓着一个和纳威一样的荚果。 多刺的藤蔓立刻窜回了树里，那根多节的树桩坐在那里，看起来就像一堆无辜的死木头。 “你知道，我想等我有了自己的房子，我的花园里就不会有这种东西了。”罗恩说着，把护目镜推到额头上，擦去脸上的汗水。 “递给我一个碗。”赫敏说，把跳动的荚果拿在一臂远的地方。哈利递给她一只，她把荚果扔了进去，脸上带着厌恶的表情。 “别娇气，挤出来吧，新鲜的是最好的！”斯普劳特教授叫道。 “不管怎样，”赫敏说，继续他们被打断的谈话，好像一团

wood had not just attacked them, 'Slughorn's going to have a Christmas party, Harry, and there's no way you'll be able to wriggle out of this one because he actually asked me to check your free evenings, so he could be sure to have it on a night you can come.' Harry groaned. Ron, meanwhile, who was attempting to burst the pod in the bowl by putting both hands on it, standing up and squashing it as hard as he could, said angrily, 'And this is another party just for Slughorn's favourites, is it?' 'Just for the Slug Club, yes,' said Hermione. The pod flew out from under Ron's fingers and hit the greenhouse glass, rebounding on to the back of Professor Sprout's head and knocking off her old patched hat. Harry went to retrieve the pod; when he got back, Hermione was saying, 'Look, I didn't make up the name "Slug Club"–' '"Slug Club",' repeated Ron with a sneer worthy of Malfoy. 'It's pathetic. Well, I hope you enjoy your party. Why don't you try getting off with McLaggen, then Slughorn can make you King and Queen Slug–'

“斯拉格霍恩要举办一个圣诞晚会，哈利，这次你是逃不掉的，因为他让我查一下你晚上的空闲时间，这样他就能保证在你能来的那天晚上办晚会。”哈利呻吟着。 与此同时，罗恩正试图用双手按住荚果，站起来使劲把它压扁。他生气地说：“这又是为斯拉格霍恩最喜欢的人举办的派对，是吗？“只参加鼻涕虫俱乐部，是的。”赫敏说。 荚果从罗恩的手指底下飞了出来，撞在温室的玻璃上，反弹到斯普劳特教授的后脑勺上，撞掉了她那顶打着补丁的旧帽子。 哈利去拿荚果。他回来时，赫敏正在说：“瞧，‘鼻涕虫俱乐部’这个名字不是我编的——”“鼻涕虫俱乐部。”罗恩重复了一遍，脸上带着马尔福特有的冷笑。 这是可悲的。希望你玩得开心。 你为什么不试着和麦克拉根一起离开，这样斯拉格霍恩就可以封你们为鼻涕虫国王和王后——”

'We're allowed to bring guests,' said Hermione, who for some reason had turned a bright, boiling scarlet, 'and I was going to ask you to come, but if you think it's that stupid then I won't bother!' Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little further, so that he need not have been sitting there with the pair of them. Unnoticed by either, he seized the bowl that contained the pod and began to try and open it by the noisiest and most energetic means he could think of; unfortunately, he could still hear every word of their conversation. 'You were going to ask me?' asked Ron, in a completely different voice. 'Yes,' said Hermione angrily. 'But obviously if you'd rather I got off with McLaggen…' There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel. 'No, I wouldn't,' said Ron, in a very quiet voice. Harry missed the pod, hit the bowl and it shattered.

“我们可以带客人来，”赫敏说，不知什么原因，她的脸涨得通红，“我本来想请你来的，但如果你认为这很愚蠢，那我就不麻烦了！”哈利突然希望荚果能飞得更远一点，这样他就不用和他们俩坐在一起了。 两人都没注意到，他抓起装荚果的碗，开始用他能想到的最吵、最有力的方法打开荚果。不幸的是，他仍然能听到他们谈话的每一个字。 “你要问我吗？”罗恩用一种完全不同的声音问。 “是的。”赫敏生气地说。 “但显然，如果你希望我和麦克拉根一起下车的话……”沉默了一会儿，哈利继续用铲子敲着那颗有弹性的荚果。 “不，我不会。”罗恩用非常平静的声音说。 哈利没打中荚果，撞到了碗，碗碎了。