23 Horcruxes

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Horcruxes Harry could feel the Felix Felicis wearing off as he crept back into the castle. The front door had remained unlocked for him, but on the third floor he met Peeves and only narrowly avoided detection by diving sideways through one of his short cuts. By the time he got up to the portrait of the Fat Lady and pulled off his Invisibility Cloak, he was not surprised to find her in a most unhelpful mood. 'What sort of time do you call this?' 'I'm really sorry– I had to go out for something important–' 'Well, the password changed at midnight, so you'll just have to sleep in the corridor, won't

第二十三章魂器哈利蹑手蹑脚地回到城堡，感觉到福灵剂的作用在逐渐消失。 前门一直没锁，但到了三楼，他遇到了皮皮鬼，他抄了一条近路往旁边跳，才没被发现。 当他走到胖夫人的画像前，脱下隐形衣时，他发现胖夫人非常不愿意帮忙，这一点也不奇怪。 “你说这是什么时候？”“我真的很抱歉——我有重要的事情要出去——”“嗯，密码半夜改了，所以你只能睡在走廊里了，是不是？

you?' 'You're joking!' said Harry. 'Why did it have to change at midnight?' 'That's the way it is,' said the Fat Lady. 'If you're angry, go and take it up with the Headmaster, he's the one who's tightened security.' 'Fantastic,' said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor. 'Really brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if he was here, because he's the one who wanted me to–' 'He is here,' said a voice behind Harry. 'Professor Dumbledore returned to the school an hour ago.' Nearly Headless Nick was gliding towards Harry, his head wobbling as usual upon his ruff. 'I had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive,' said Nick. 'He appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a little tired, of course.' 'Where is he?' said Harry, his heart leaping.

你吗?“你在开玩笑吧！”哈利问。 “为什么要在半夜改呢？”“事情就是这样，”胖夫人说。 “如果你生气了，就去找校长说，是他加强了安全措施。“太棒了。”哈利痛苦地说，环顾着坚硬的地板。 “真聪明。是啊，如果邓布利多在这里，我就去找他，因为是他要我——”“他在这里。”哈利身后的一个声音说。 “邓布利多教授一个小时前回到学校了。”差点没头的尼克滑向哈利，他的头在颈圈上像往常一样摇晃着。 “我从血人巴罗那里得到的，他看见他来了。” 据男爵说，他看起来精神很好，当然，虽然有点累。“他在哪儿？”哈利说，他的心怦怦直跳。

'Oh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, it's a favourite pastime of his–' 'Not the Bloody Baron, Dumbledore!' 'Oh– in his office,' said Nick. 'I believe, from what the Baron said, that he had business to attend to before turning in–' 'Yeah, he has,' said Harry, excitement blazing in his chest at the prospect of telling Dumbledore he had secured the memory. He wheeled about and sprinted off again, ignoring the Fat Lady who was calling after him. 'Come back! All right, I lied! I was annoyed you woke me up! The password's still "tapeworm"!' But Harry was already hurtling back along the corridor, and, within minutes, he was saying 'toffee eclairs' to Dumbledore's gargoyle, which leapt aside, permitting Harry entrance on to the spiral staircase. 'Enter,' said Dumbledore when Harry knocked. He sounded exhausted.

“哦，在天文塔上唉声叹气，叮当作响，这是他最喜欢的消遣——”“不是那个血人巴罗，邓布利多！“哦——在他的办公室里，”尼克说。 “我相信，从男爵的话来看，他在睡觉前还有事情要处理——”“是的，他有。”哈利说，一想到要告诉邓布利多他已经得到了记忆，他就兴奋得胸膛直冒。 他转过身来，又跑开了，没有理睬在他后面喊他的胖夫人。 “回来!”好吧，我撒谎了！我很生气你把我叫醒！密码还是‘绦虫’！”但哈利已经沿着走廊飞快地跑了回来，几分钟后，他就对邓布利多的滴水嘴兽说了一句“太妃糖泡饼”，滴水嘴兽跳到了一边，哈利得以进入螺旋形楼梯。 “请进。”哈利敲门时邓布利多说。 他听起来很疲惫。

Harry pushed open the door. There was Dumbledore's office, looking the same as ever, but with black, star-strewn skies beyond the windows. 'Good gracious, Harry,' said Dumbledore in surprise. 'To what do I owe this very late pleasure?' 'Sir– I've got it. I've got the memory from Slughorn.' Harry pulled out the tiny glass bottle and showed it to Dumbledore. For a moment or two, the Headmaster looked stunned. Then his face split in a wide smile. 'Harry, this is spectacular news! Very well done indeed! I knew you could do it!' All thought of the lateness of the hour apparently forgotten, he hurried around his desk, took the bottle with Slughorn's memory in his uninjured hand and strode over to the cabinet where he kept the Pensieve. 'And now,' said Dumbledore, placing the stone basin upon his desk and emptying the contents of the bottle into it, 'now, at last, we shall see. mclhfa. Harry, quickly…'

哈利推开了门。 邓布利多的办公室还和以前一样，但窗外是布满星星的黑色天空。 “天哪，哈利。”邓布利多惊讶地说。 “是什么风把你吹来了？”“先生——我知道了。” 我从斯拉格霍恩那里得到了记忆。”哈利拿出那个小玻璃瓶，拿给邓布利多看。 有那么一会儿，校长显得很吃惊。 然后他的脸绽开，露出灿烂的笑容。 “哈利，这真是个惊人的消息！”做得非常好！我就知道你能做到！”显然，他已经忘记了已经很晚了，匆匆绕过桌子，拿起装有斯拉格霍恩记忆的瓶子，那只没有受伤的手大步走向放冥想盆的柜子。 “现在，”邓布利多说着，把石盆放在桌子上，把瓶子里的东西倒了进去，“现在，我们终于可以看到了。 哈利,快……”

Harry bowed obediently over the Pensieve and felt his feet leave the office floor… once again he fell through darkness and landed in Horace Slughorn's office many years before. There was the much younger Horace Slughorn, with his thick, shiny, straw-coloured hair and his gingery-blond moustache, sitting again in the comfortable winged armchair in his office, his feet resting upon a velvet pouffe, a small glass of wine in one hand, the other rummaging in a box of crystallised pineapple. And there were the half a dozen teenage boys sitting around Slughorn with Tom Riddle in the midst of them, Marvolo's gold and black ring gleaming on his finger. Dumbledore landed beside Harry just as Riddle asked, 'Sir, is it true that Professor Merrythought is retiring?' 'Tom, Tom, if I knew I couldn't tell you,' said Slughorn, wagging his finger reprovingly at Riddle, though winking at the same time. 'I must say, I'd like to know where you get your information, boy; more knowledgeable than half the staff, you are.'

哈利顺从地在冥想盆上鞠了一躬，感觉双脚离开了办公室的地板……他又一次在黑暗中坠落，落在许多年前霍拉斯·斯拉格霍恩的办公室里。 年轻得多的霍拉斯·斯拉格霍恩又坐在办公室那把舒适的带翼扶手椅上，一头浓密发亮的稻草色头发，留着姜黄色的小胡子，两只脚搁在天鹅绒垫子上，一只手端着一小杯酒，另一只手在一盒菠萝晶里翻找着。 六个十几岁的男孩围着斯拉格霍恩坐着，汤姆·里德尔在他们中间，马沃罗的金黑戒指在他的手指上闪闪发光。 邓布利多落在哈利身边时，里德尔问道：“先生，梅里思教授真的要退休了吗？”“汤姆，汤姆，如果我知道，我也不能告诉你。”斯拉格霍恩一边说，一边向里德尔责备地摇着手指，同时又眨着眼睛。 “我得说，我倒想知道你从哪儿得到的消息，孩子；你比一半的员工都有见识。”

Riddle smiled; the other boys laughed and cast him admiring looks. 'What with your uncanny ability to know things you shouldn't, and your careful flattery of the people who matter– thank you for the pineapple, by the way, you're quite right, it is my favourite–' Several of the boys tittered again. '–I confidently expect you to rise to Minister for Magic within twenty years. Fifteen, if you keep sending me pineapple. I have excellent contacts at the Ministry.' Tom Riddle merely smiled as the others laughed again. Harry noticed that he was by no means the eldest of the group of boys, but that they all seemed to look to him as their leader. 'I don't know that politics would suit me, sir,' he said when the laughter had died away. 'I don't have the right kind of background, for one thing.' A couple of the boys around him smirked at each other. Harry was sure they were enjoying a private joke: undoubtedly about what they knew, or suspected, regarding their gang leader's famous ancestor.

谜语笑了;其他男孩都笑了，向他投去羡慕的目光。 “你有一种不可思议的能力，知道你不该知道的事情，你对重要的人小心翼翼地奉承——顺便说一句，谢谢你的菠萝，你说得很对，它是我的最爱——”几个男孩又咯咯地笑了起来。 “我满怀信心地期望你在二十年之内升为魔法部部长。 如果你一直给我送菠萝，就给你十五。 我在魔法部有很好的关系。”汤姆·里德尔只是微微一笑，其他人又笑了起来。 哈利注意到，他绝不是这群男孩中年龄最大的，但他们似乎都把他当作领袖。 “我不知道从政是否适合我，先生，”笑声消失后他说。 “首先，我没有合适的背景。”他周围的几个男孩互相傻笑着。 哈利确信他们在享受一个私下的玩笑：毫无疑问，是关于他们知道的或怀疑的，关于他们黑帮头目著名的祖先。