30 The White Tomb

CHAPTER THIRTY The White Tomb All lessons were suspended, all examinations postponed. Some students were hurried away from Hogwarts by their parents over the next couple of days– the Patil twins were gone before breakfast on the morning following Dumbledore's death and Zacharias Smith was escorted from the castle by his haughty-looking father. Seamus Finnigan, on the other hand, refused point-blank to accompany his mother home; they had a shouting match in the Entrance Hall which was resolved when she agreed that he could remain behind for the funeral. She had difficulty in finding a bed in Hogsmeade, Seamus told Harry and Ron, for wizards and

第三十章白墓所有的课都停课了，所有的考试都推迟了。 在接下来的几天里，有些学生被他们的父母赶出了霍格沃茨——邓布利多死后的第二天早上，帕蒂尔双胞胎还没吃早饭就走了，扎卡赖斯·史密斯被他那一脸傲慢的父亲护送出了城堡。 另一方面，西莫·斐尼甘直截了当地拒绝陪他母亲回家。他们在门厅里大吵了一架，后来她同意让他留下来参加葬礼，才解决了问题。 西莫告诉哈利和罗恩，她在霍格莫德村很难找到巫师和巫师的床位

witches were pouring into the village, preparing to pay their last respects to Dumbledore. Some excitement was caused among the younger students, who had never seen it before, when a powder-blue carriage the size of a house, pulled by a dozen giant winged palominos, came soaring out of the sky in the late afternoon before the funeral and landed on the edge of the Forest. Harry watched from a window as a gigantic and handsome olive-skinned, black-haired woman descended the carriage steps and threw herself into the waiting Hagrid's arms. Meanwhile a delegation of Ministry officials, including the Minister for Magic himself, was being accommodated within the castle. Harry was diligently avoiding contact with any of them; he was sure that, sooner or later, he would be asked again to account for Dumbledore's last excursion from Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were spending all of their time together. The beautiful weather seemed to mock them; Harry could imagine how it would have been if Dumbledore

女巫们纷纷涌进村子，准备向邓布利多作最后的告别。 葬礼前的傍晚时分，一辆房子那么大的粉蓝色马车，由十几只巨大的带翅膀的帕洛米诺拉着，从天空中呼啸而来，停在禁林的边缘，这让那些以前从未见过的年轻学生们有些兴奋。 哈利从一扇窗户里看到一个高大英俊的女人走下马车的台阶，一头扑进等候在那里的海格怀里。 与此同时，一个由魔法部官员组成的代表团，包括魔法部部长本人，被安排在城堡里。 哈利努力避免与他们中的任何一个接触。他确信，迟早会有人再次要求他解释邓布利多最后一次离开霍格沃茨的原因。 哈利、罗恩、赫敏和金妮整天呆在一起。 美丽的天气似乎在嘲笑他们；哈利可以想象，如果邓布利多

had not died, and they had had this time together at the very end of the year, Ginny's examinations finished, the pressure of homework lifted… and hour by hour, he put off saying the thing that he knew he must say, doing what he knew it was right to do, because it was too hard to forgo his best source of comfort. They visited the hospital wing twice a day: Neville had been discharged, but Bill remained under Madam Pomfrey's care. His scars were as bad as ever; in truth, he now bore a distinct resemblance to Mad-Eye Moody, though thankfully with both eyes and legs, but in personality he seemed just the same as ever. All that appeared to have changed was that he now had a great liking for very rare steaks. '…so eet ees lucky 'e is marrying me,' said Fleur happily, plumping up Bill's pillows, 'because ze British overcook their meat, I 'ave always said this.' 'I suppose I'm just going to have to accept that he really is going to marry her,' sighed Ginny later that evening, as she, Harry, Ron and Hermione sat

金妮的考试结束了，家庭作业的压力减轻了……他一个小时一个小时地推迟说他知道必须说的话，推迟做他知道应该做的事，因为放弃他最好的安慰来源实在是太难受了。 他们每天去医院两次，纳威已经出院了，但比尔仍然由庞弗雷夫人照顾。 他的伤疤和以前一样严重；事实上，他现在和疯眼汉穆迪长得很像，不过谢天谢地，他的眼睛和腿都长得很像，但他的性格似乎和以前一样。 唯一似乎发生了变化的是，他现在非常喜欢吃非常嫩的牛排。 “……所以他能娶我真是幸运，”芙蓉高兴地说，一边把比尔的枕头拍得鼓鼓的，“因为英国人把肉煮得太熟了，我一直这么说。“我想我只能接受他真的要娶她了。”那天晚上晚些时候，金妮叹了口气，她和哈利、罗恩、赫敏坐在一起

beside the open window of the Gryffindor common room, looking out over the twilit grounds. 'She's not that bad,' said Harry. 'Ugly, though,' he added hastily, as Ginny raised her eyebrows, and she let out a reluctant giggle. 'Well, I suppose if Mum can stand it, I can.' 'Anyone else we know died?' Ron asked Hermione, who was perusing the Evening Prophet. Hermione winced at the forced toughness in his voice. 'No,' she said reprovingly, folding up the newspaper. 'They're still looking for Snape, but no sign…' 'Of course there isn't,' said Harry, who became angry every time this subject cropped up. 'They won't find Snape till they find Voldemort, and seeing as they've never managed to do that in all this time…' 'I'm going to go to bed,' yawned Ginny. 'I haven't been sleeping that well since… well… I

站在格兰芬多公共休息室敞开的窗户旁，望着暮色中的场地。 “她没那么坏。”哈利说。 “不过很丑。”他看到金妮扬起眉毛，赶紧补充了一句，金妮不情愿地咯咯笑了起来。 “好吧，我想如果妈妈能受得了，我也能。“还有我们认识的人死了吗？”罗恩问正在看《预言家晚报》的赫敏。 赫敏听了他声音里勉强的强硬，不禁皱起了眉头。 “不，”她把报纸叠起来，责备地说。 “当然没有。”哈利说，每次提到这个话题，他都很生气。 “在找到伏地魔之前，他们是找不到斯内普的，既然他们这么长时间都没能找到斯内普……” “自从……嗯……我……我……

could do with some sleep.' She kissed Harry (Ron looked away pointedly), waved at the other two and departed for the girls' dormitories. The moment the door had closed behind her, Hermione leaned forwards towards Harry with a most Hermione-ish look on her face. 'Harry, I found something out this morning, in the library…' 'R.A.B.?' said Harry, sitting up straight. He did not feel the way he had so often felt before, excited, curious, burning to get to the bottom of a mystery; he simply knew that the task of discovering the truth about the real Horcrux had to be completed before he could move a little further along the dark and winding path stretching ahead of him, the path that he and Dumbledore had set out upon together, and which he now knew he would have to journey alone. There might still be as many as four Horcruxes out there somewhere and each would need to be found and eliminated before there was even a possibility that Voldemort could be killed. He kept reciting their names to himself, as though by listing them he

我该睡一会儿了。”她吻了吻哈利（罗恩故意把目光移开），向另外两个人挥了挥手，就向女生宿舍走去了。 门在她身后一关上，赫敏就朝哈利探过身来，脸上带着一种赫敏特有的神情。 “哈利，今天早上我在图书馆里发现了一些东西……”哈利说着坐直了身子。 他不再像以前那样感到兴奋、好奇，渴望弄清一个谜的真相；他只知道，他必须先弄清真正的魂器的真相，然后才能在他面前那条黑暗而曲折的道路上再往前走一点，这条道路是他和邓布利多一起踏上的，现在他知道他必须一个人走了。 可能还有多达四个魂器在某处，在伏地魔有可能被杀死之前，必须找到并消灭每一个魂器。 他不停地背诵着他们的名字，仿佛把他们一一列出来

could bring them within reach: 'the locket… the cup… the snake… something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's… the locket… the cup… the snake… something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's…' This mantra seemed to pulse through Harry's mind as he fell asleep at night, and his dreams were thick with cups, lockets and mysterious objects that he could not quite reach, though Dumbledore helpfully offered Harry a rope ladder that turned to snakes the moment he began to climb… He had shown Hermione the note inside the locket the morning after Dumbledore's death, and although she had not immediately recognised the initials as belonging to some obscure wizard about whom she had been reading, she had since been rushing off to the library a little more often than was strictly necessary for somebody who had no homework to do. 'No,' she said sadly, 'I've been trying, Harry, but I haven't found anything… there are a couple of reasonably well-known wizards with those initials– Rosalind Antigone Bungs… Rupert

能让他们触手可及；“挂坠盒……杯子……那条蛇……格兰芬多或拉文克劳的东西……挂坠盒……杯子……那条蛇……格兰芬多或拉文克劳的东西……”这句咒语似乎在哈利夜里入睡时在他的脑海里跳动，他的梦里充斥着杯子、挂坠盒和他够不着的神秘物品。邓布利多在邓布利多死后的第二天早上把挂坠盒里的纸条拿给赫敏看，虽然她没有立刻认出上面的首字母是某个不知名的巫师的名字，但从那以后，对于一个没有家庭作业要做的人来说，她匆匆忙忙地去图书馆的次数要多一些。 “没有，”她伤心地说，“我一直在努力，哈利，但什么也没找到……有两个相当有名的巫师名字的首字母都是这样的——罗莎琳德·安提戈涅·邦斯……鲁帕特……