25 Shell Cottage

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE SHELL COTTAGE Bill and Fleur's cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed. It was a lonely and beautiful place. Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. He

第二十五章贝壳小屋比尔和芙蓉的小屋孤零零地矗立在悬崖上，俯瞰大海，墙壁上嵌着贝壳，粉刷得雪白。 这是一个孤独而美丽的地方。 无论哈利走到那间小茅屋或它的花园里的什么地方，他都能听到海水不断的潮起潮落，就像某种沉睡的大动物的呼吸声。 他

spent much of the next few days making excuses to escape the crowded cottage, craving the cliff- top view of open sky and wide, empty sea, and the feel of cold, salty wind on his face. The enormity of his decision not to race Voldemort to the wand still scared Harry. He could not remember, ever before, choosing not to act. He was full of doubts, doubts that Ron could not help voicing whenever they were together. "What if Dumbledore wanted us to work out the symbol in time to get the wand?" "What if working out what the symbol meant made you 'worthy' to get the Hallows?" "Harry, if that really is the Elder Wand, how the hell are we supposed to finish off You-Know-Who?" Harry had no answers: There were moments when he wondered whether it had been outright madness not to try to prevent Voldemort breaking open the tomb. He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it: Every

接下来的几天里，他花了很多时间找借口逃离拥挤的小屋，渴望看到悬崖上开阔的天空和空旷的大海，以及吹在脸上的冰冷的咸味风。 他决定不让伏地魔抢先拿到魔杖，这一重大决定仍然使哈利感到害怕。 他不记得自己曾经选择不采取行动。 他心里充满了怀疑，每当他们在一起的时候，罗恩都会忍不住说出这种怀疑。 “如果邓布利多想让我们及时找出那个符号，拿到魔杖呢？”“如果弄明白了这个符号的含义，你就‘有资格’得到圣器呢？”“哈利，如果那真的是老魔杖，我们怎么才能干掉神秘人呢？”哈利没有答案，有时他在想，不去阻止伏地魔打开坟墓是不是太疯狂了。 他甚至不能令人满意地解释为什么他决定不这样做

time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. The odd thing was that Hermione's support made him feel just as confused as Ron's doubts. Now forced to accept that the Elder Wand was real, she maintained that it was an evil object, and that the way Voldemort had taken possession of it was repellent, not to be considered. "You could never have done that, Harry," she said again and again. "You couldn't have broken into Dumbledore's grave." But the idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions. He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. From time to time, anger at Dumbledore

当他试图重新思考导致他做出这一决定的内部论据时，他觉得这些论据听起来更无力了。 奇怪的是，赫敏的支持让他感到困惑，就像罗恩的怀疑一样。 现在她不得不承认老魔杖是真的，她坚持认为那是一件邪恶的东西，伏地魔占有它的方式令人厌恶，根本不用考虑。 “你不可能那样做的，哈利。”她一遍又一遍地说。 “你不可能闯进邓布利多的坟墓。” 但是想到邓布利多的尸体，哈利害怕的远没有想到他可能误解了活着的邓布利多的意图。 他觉得自己仍在黑暗中摸索；他选择了自己的路，但一直回头看，怀疑自己是否看错了指示，是否不该走另一条路。 不时地对邓布利多发火

crashed over him again, powerful as the waves slamming themselves against the cliff beneath the cottage, anger that Dumbledore had not explained before he died. "But is he dead?" said Ron, three days after they had arrived at the cottage. Harry had been staring out over the wall that separated the cottage garden from the cliff when Ron and Hermione had found him; he wished they had not, having no wish to join in with their argument. "Yes, he is, Ron, please don't start that again!" "Look at the facts, Hermione," said Ron, speaking across Harry, who continued to gaze at the horizon. "The silver doe. The sword. The eye Harry saw in the mirror—" "Harry admits he could have imagined the eye! Don't you, Harry?" "I could have," said Harry without looking at her.

又一次从他身上扑了过来，就像海浪猛烈地撞击着小屋下面的悬崖一样，这是邓布利多临死前没有向他解释的愤怒。 “可是他死了吗？”罗恩说，那是在他们到达小屋三天后。 当罗恩和赫敏发现他时，哈利正望着小屋花园和悬崖之间的那堵墙外。他希望他们没有这样做，因为他不想加入他们的争论。 “不，他是，罗恩，求你别再说了！”“看看事实吧，赫敏。”罗恩隔着哈利说，哈利继续凝视着地平线。 “那只银母鹿。剑。 哈利在镜子里看到的那只眼睛——”“哈利承认那只眼睛可能是他想象出来的！是不是，哈利？”“我本来可以的。”哈利说，没有看她。

"But you don't think you did, do you?" asked Ron. "No, I don't," said Harry. "There you go!" said Ron quickly, before Hermione could carry on. "If it wasn't Dumbledore, explain how Dobby knew we were in the cellar, Hermione?" "I can't— but can you explain how Dumbledore sent him to us if he's lying in a tomb at Hogwarts?" "I dunno, it could've been his ghost!" "Dumbledore wouldn't come back as a ghost," said Harry. There was little about Dumbledore he was sure of now, but he knew that much. "He would have gone on." "What d'you mean, 'gone on'?" asked Ron, but before Harry could say any more, a voice behind them said, "'Arry?" Fleur had come out of the cottage, her long silver hair flying in the breeze.

“但你认为你没有，是吗？”罗恩问。 “不，我不知道。”哈利说。 “这就对了！”赫敏还没来得及说下去，罗恩赶紧说。 “如果不是邓布利多，解释一下多比是怎么知道我们在地窖里的，赫敏？”“我不能——但是如果他躺在霍格沃茨的坟墓里，你能解释一下邓布利多是怎么把他送到我们这里来的吗？”“我不知道，可能是他的鬼魂！”“邓布利多不会变成鬼魂回来的。”哈利说。 关于邓布利多，他现在几乎没有什么可以肯定的了，但他知道的就这么多。 “他会继续下去的。”“你说‘继续’是什么意思？”罗恩问，但哈利还没来得及说下去，他们身后一个声音说：“哈利？”芙蓉从小屋里走了出来，长长的银发在微风中飞舞。

"'Arry, Grip'ook would like to speak to you. 'E eez in ze smallest bedroom, 'e says 'e does not want to be over' eard." Her dislike of the goblin sending her to deliver messages was clear; she looked irritable as she walked back around the house. Griphook was waiting for them, as Fleur had said, in the tiniest of the cottage's three bedrooms, in which Hermione and Luna slept by night. He had drawn the red cotton curtains against the bright, cloudy sky, which gave the room a fiery glow at odds with the rest of the airy, light cottage. "I have reached my decision, Harry Potter," said the goblin, who was sitting cross-legged in a low chair, drumming its arms with his spindly fingers. "Though the goblins of Gringotts will consider it base treachery, I have decided to help you—" "That's great!" said Harry, relief surging through him. "Griphook, thank you, we're really

“哈利，哈利有话要对你说。 ‘他在最小的卧室里睡觉，’他说‘他不想被别人听见’。” 她很明显不喜欢妖精派她去送信；她绕着房子走回来时，显得很烦躁。 正如芙蓉所说，拉环正在小屋三间卧室中最小的一间里等着他们，赫敏和卢娜晚上就睡在那里。 他拉上了红色的棉质窗帘，映衬着明亮多云的天空，这使房间散发出一种火红的光芒，与这间通风明亮的小屋的其他部分形成了鲜明的对比。 “我已经决定了，哈利·波特。”妖精盘腿坐在一张矮椅子上，用细长的手指敲打着椅子的胳膊。 “虽然古灵阁的妖精会认为这是卑鄙的背叛，但我还是决定帮助你——”“太好了！”哈利说，浑身涌起一股如释重负的感觉。 “拉环，谢谢你，我们真的