24 Sectumsempra

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Sectumsempra Exhausted but delighted with his night's work, Harry told Ron and Hermione everything that had happened during next morning's Charms lesson (having first cast the Muffliato spell upon those nearest them). They were both satisfyingly impressed by the way he had wheedled the memory out of Slughorn and positively awed when he told them about Voldemort's Horcruxes and Dumbledore's promise to take Harry along, should he find another one. 'Wow,' said Ron, when Harry had finally finished telling them everything; Ron was waving his wand very vaguely in the direction of the ceiling without paying the slightest bit of attention

第二十四章无神无影哈利累坏了，但对晚上的功课很满意，他在第二天早上的魔咒课上把发生的一切都告诉了罗恩和赫敏（他先对离他们最近的人施了消声咒）。 他从斯拉格霍恩嘴里套出记忆的方式给他们留下了深刻的印象。当他告诉他们伏地魔的魂器，以及邓布利多答应如果哈利能找到另一个魂器，就带他一起去的时候，他们都感到敬畏。 “哇。”哈利终于把一切都告诉了他们，罗恩说。罗恩心不在焉地朝天花板的方向挥舞着魔杖

to what he was doing. 'Wow. You're actually going to go with Dumbledore… and try and destroy… wow.' 'Ron, you're making it snow,' said Hermione patiently, grabbing his wrist and redirecting his wand away from the ceiling from which, sure enough, large white flakes had started to fall. Lavender Brown, Harry noticed, glared at Hermione from a neighbouring table through very red eyes and Hermione immediately let go of Ron's arm. 'Oh yeah,' said Ron, looking down at his shoulders in vague surprise. 'Sorry… looks like we've all got horrible dandruff now…' He brushed some of the fake snow off Hermione's shoulder. Lavender burst into tears. Ron looked immensely guilty and turned his back on her. 'We split up,' he told Harry out of the corner of his mouth. 'Last night. When she saw me coming out of the dormitory with Hermione. Obviously she couldn't see you, so she thought it had just been the two of us.'

他所做的事。“哇。 你真的要和邓布利多一起去摧毁……哇。“罗恩，你在下雪。”赫敏耐心地说，抓住他的手腕，把他的魔杖从天花板上移开，天花板上果然开始落下大片的白色雪花。 哈利注意到，拉文德·布朗站在邻桌，眼睛通红地瞪着赫敏，赫敏立刻放开了罗恩的胳膊。 “哦，是啊。”罗恩说，低头看着自己的肩膀，有点吃惊。 “对不起……看来我们现在都有可怕的头皮屑了……”他拂去赫敏肩上的一些假雪。 拉文德哭了起来。 罗恩显得非常内疚，转过身去背对着她。 “我们分开了。”他从嘴角对哈利说。 “昨晚。当她看见我和赫敏从宿舍出来的时候。 显然她看不见你，所以她以为只有我们两个人。”

'Ah,' said Harry. 'Well– you don't mind it's over, do you?' 'No,' Ron admitted. 'It was pretty bad while she was yelling, but at least I didn't have to finish it.' 'Coward,' said Hermione, though she looked amused. 'Well, it was a bad night for romance all round. Ginny and Dean split up too, Harry.' Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that, but she could not possibly know that his insides were suddenly dancing the conga: keeping his face as immobile and his voice as indifferent as he could, he asked, 'How come?' 'Oh, something really silly… she said he was always trying to help her through the portrait hole, like she couldn't climb in herself… but they've been a bit rocky for ages.' Harry glanced over at Dean on the other side of the classroom. He certainly looked unhappy. 'Of course, this puts you in a bit of a dilemma, doesn't it?' said Hermione. 'What d'you mean?' said Harry quickly.

“啊。”哈利说。“嗯——你不介意结束吧，是不是？”“没有。”罗恩承认。 “她大喊大叫的时候感觉很糟糕，但至少我不用把它吃完。”“懦夫。”赫敏说，不过她看上去很开心。 “嗯，这是一个糟糕的浪漫之夜。 金妮和迪安也分手了，哈利。”哈利觉得她对他说这话的时候，眼睛里有一种心照不挂的神情，但她不可能知道他的五官突然跳起了康加舞。他尽量保持着一动不动的脸和若无其事的声音，问：“怎么回事？“哦，一件非常愚蠢的事……她说他总是想帮她从肖像洞口爬进去，好像她自己爬不进去似的……不过他们之间的关系已经有点不太好了。”哈利瞥了一眼教室另一边的迪安。 他看上去确实很不高兴。 “当然，这让你有点左右为难，不是吗？”赫敏说。 “你这是什么意思？”哈利赶紧问。

'The Quidditch team,' said Hermione. 'If Ginny and Dean aren't speaking…' 'Oh– oh yeah,' said Harry. 'Flitwick,' said Ron in a warning tone. The tiny little Charms master was bobbing his way towards them and Hermione was the only one who had managed to turn vinegar into wine; her glass flask was full of deep crimson liquid, whereas the contents of Harry's and Ron's were still murky brown. 'Now, now, boys,' squeaked Professor Flitwick reproachfully. 'A little less talk, a little more action… let me see you try…' Together they raised their wands, concentrating with all their might, and pointed them at their flasks. Harry's vinegar turned to ice; Ron's flask exploded. 'Yes… for homework…' said Professor Flitwick, re-emerging from under the table and pulling shards of glass out of the top of his hat, 'practise.' They had one of their rare joint free periods after Charms and walked back to the common

“魁地奇球队。”赫敏说。 “哦——哦，是啊。”哈利说。 “弗立维。”罗恩用警告的语气说。 身材矮小的魔咒课老师朝他们走来，赫敏是唯一一个把醋变成酒的人。她的玻璃瓶子里装满了深红色的液体，而哈利和罗恩的瓶子里的东西仍然是暗褐色的。 “好了，好了，孩子们。”弗立维教授责备地尖声说。 “少说一点，多做一点……让我看看你怎么做……”他们一起举起魔杖，用尽全力集中精神，指着自己的瓶子。 哈利的醋变成了冰；罗恩的烧瓶爆炸了。 “是的……为了家庭作业……”弗立维教授说着，从桌子底下钻了出来，从帽子上扯出玻璃碎片，“练习。”在上完魔咒课后，他们难得有了一段共同的自由时间，然后走回了公共场所

room together. Ron seemed to be positively light- hearted about the end of his relationship with Lavender and Hermione seemed cheery, too, though when asked what she was grinning about she simply said, 'It's a nice day.' Neither of them seemed to have noticed that a fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain: She's Ron's sister. But she's ditched Dean! She's still Ron's sister. I'm his best mate! That'll make it worse. If I talked to him first– He'd hit you. What if I don't care? He's your best mate! Harry barely noticed that they were climbing through the portrait hole into the sunny common room, and only vaguely registered the small group of seventh-years clustered together there, until Hermione cried, 'Katie! You're back! Are you OK?'

房间在一起。罗恩对他和拉文德的关系结束似乎很轻松，赫敏似乎也很高兴，不过当问到她在笑什么时，她只是说：“今天天气不错。”两人似乎都没有注意到，哈利的脑子里正在进行一场激烈的斗争：她是罗恩的妹妹。 但她抛弃了迪恩！她还是罗恩的妹妹。 我是他最好的伙伴！那会使情况更糟。 如果我先跟他说-他会打你的。 如果我不在乎呢？他是你最好的朋友！哈利几乎没有注意到他们正从肖像洞口爬进阳光明媚的公共休息室，只模模糊糊地注意到那一小群七年级学生聚集在那里，直到赫敏叫道：“凯蒂！你回来!你还好吗？”

Harry stared: it was indeed Katie Bell, looking completely healthy and surrounded by her jubilant friends. 'I'm really well!' she said happily. 'They let me out of St Mungo's on Monday, I had a couple of days at home with Mum and Dad and then came back here this morning. Leanne was just telling me about McLaggen and the last match, Harry…' 'Yeah,' said Harry, 'well, now you're back and Ron's fit, we'll have a decent chance of thrashing Ravenclaw, which means we could still be in the running for the Cup. Listen, Katie…' He had to put the question to her at once; his curiosity even drove Ginny temporarily from his brain. He dropped his voice as Katie's friends started gathering up their things; apparently they were late for Transfiguration. '…that necklace… can you remember who gave it to you now?' 'No,' said Katie, shaking her head ruefully. 'Everyone's been asking me, but I haven't got a clue. The last thing I remember was walking into the ladies' in the Three Broomsticks.'

哈利瞪大了眼睛，原来是凯蒂·贝尔，看上去十分健康，周围都是兴高采烈的朋友。 “我真的很好！”她高兴地说。 “星期一他们让我离开圣芒戈医院，我在家里和爸爸妈妈呆了几天，然后今天早上回到这里。 “是啊，”哈利说，“现在你回来了，罗恩也康复了，我们很有可能痛击拉文克劳，也就是说我们还有机会争夺奖杯。” 听着，凯蒂……”他不得不立刻向她提出这个问题。他的好奇心甚至暂时把金妮赶出了他的大脑。 当凯蒂的朋友们开始收拾东西时，他压低了声音；显然他们上变形课迟到了。 “……那条项链……你还记得是谁送给你的吗？”“不，”凯蒂说，悲哀地摇着头。 “每个人都在问我，但我一点头绪都没有。 我记得的最后一件事是走进三把扫帚的女士休息室。”