3 The Dursleys Departing

CHAPTER THREE THE DURSLEYS DEPARTING The sound of the front door slamming echoed up the stairs and a voice yelled, "Oi! You!" Sixteen years of being addressed thus left Harry in no doubt whom his uncle was calling; nevertheless, he did not immediately respond. He was still gazing at the mirror fragment in which, for a split second, he had thought he saw

第三章德思礼一家离开前门砰的一声在楼上回荡，一个声音喊道：“喂！你!”哈利已经被这样称呼了十六年，他毫不怀疑姨父在呼唤谁。不过，他没有立即做出回应。 他仍然凝视着镜子的碎片，有那么一瞬间，他以为自己看到了那块碎片

Dumbledore's eye. It was not until his uncle bellowed, "BOY!" that Harry got slowly to his feet and headed for the bedroom door, pausing to add the piece of broken mirror to the rucksack filled with things he would be taking with him. "You took your time!" roared Vernon Dursley when Harry appeared at the top of the stairs. "Get down here, I want a word!" Harry strolled downstairs, his hands deep in his jeans pockets. When he reached the living room he found all three Dursleys. They were dressed for traveling: Uncle Vernon in a fawn zip-up jacket, Aunt Petunia in a neat salmon-colored coat, and Dudley, Harry's large, blond, muscular cousin, in his leather jacket. "Yes?" asked Harry. "Sit down!" said Uncle Vernon. Harry raised his eyebrows. "Please!" added Uncle Vernon, wincing slightly as though the word was sharp in his throat.

邓布利多的眼睛。直到姨父吼了一声：“小子！”哈利才慢慢站起来，朝卧室门口走去，他停下来把那块破碎的镜子放进背包里，背包里装满了他要带走的东西。 “你可真不慌不忙！”弗农·德思礼看到哈利出现在楼梯顶上时大吼道。 “给我下来，我有话要说！”哈利漫步下楼，双手深深插在牛仔裤口袋里。 当他走到客厅时，他发现了德思礼一家。 他们都穿着要去旅行的衣服：弗农姨父穿着一件浅黄色的拉链夹克，佩妮姨妈穿着一件整洁的鲑鱼色外套，哈利的大块头、金发、肌肉发达的堂兄达力穿着一件皮夹克。 “什么事？”哈利问。“坐下！”弗农姨父说。 哈利扬起眉毛。 “求你了！”弗农姨父补充道，微微皱起眉头，好像这个词哽在他喉咙里似的。

Harry sat. He thought he knew what was coming. His uncle began to pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley following his movements with anxious expressions. Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration, Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke. "I've changed my mind," he said. "What a surprise," said Harry. "Don't you take that tone—" began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down. "It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. "I've decided I don't believe a word of it. We're staying put, we're not going anywhere." Harry looked up at his uncle and felt a mixture of exasperation and amusement. Vernon Dursley had been changing his mind every twenty-four hours for the past four weeks, packing and unpacking and repacking the car with every

哈利坐了下来，他想他知道接下来会发生什么。 他的叔叔开始踱来踱去，佩妮姨妈和达力带着焦急的表情看着他的一举一动。 最后，弗农姨父那张紫色的大脸因为专注而皱了起来，他在哈利面前停了下来，说话了。 “我改变主意了，”他说。 “真让人吃惊。”哈利说。 “别用这种语气——”佩妮姨妈尖声说，但弗农·德思礼挥手示意她不要说话。 “都是些哗众取宠的东西。”弗农姨父说，两只猪一样的小眼睛瞪着哈利。 “我决定一个字也不相信。 我们就待在这里，哪儿也不去。” 哈利抬头看着他的叔叔，心里又恼火又好笑。 在过去的四个星期里，弗农·德思礼每隔二十四小时就改变一次主意，每次都把行李装上车，又拆上车，又重新装上车

change of heart. Harry's favorite moment had been the one when Uncle Vernon, unaware that Dudley had added his dumbbells to his case since the last time it had been unpacked, had attempted to hoist it back into the boot and collapsed with roars of pain and much swearing. "According to you," Vernon Dursley said now, resuming his pacing up and down the living room, "we— Petunia, Dudley, and I— are in danger. From— from—" "Some of 'my lot,' right," said Harry. "Well, I don't believe it," repeated Uncle Vernon, coming to a halt in front of Harry again. "I was awake half the night thinking it all over, and I believe it's a plot to get the house." "The house?" repeated Harry. "What house?" "This house!" shrieked Uncle Vernon, the vein in his forehead starting to pulse. "Our house! House prices are skyrocketing around here! You want us out of the way and then you're going to

改变心意。哈利最喜欢的时刻是，弗农姨父不知道达力上次打开箱子后又把哑铃放进了箱子里，他想把箱子抬回靴子里，却痛苦地大吼一声，大声咒骂着，瘫倒在地。 “照你说的，”弗农·德思礼说着，又在客厅里踱来踱去，“我们——佩妮、达力和我——有危险。 “来自——来自——”“我的一些人，对吧。”哈利说。 “唉，我不相信。”弗农姨父重复了一遍，又在哈利面前停了下来。 “我半夜没睡，一直在想这件事，我相信这是一个得到房子的阴谋。” “房子？”哈利重复了一遍。 “什么房子?”“这所房子！”弗农姨父尖叫道，额头上的血管开始跳动。 “我们的房子!这里的房价在飞涨！你想让我们让开，那你就得让开

do a bit of hocus-pocus and before we know it the deeds will be in your name and—" "Are you out of your mind?" demanded Harry. "A plot to get this house? Are you actually as stupid as you look?" "Don't you dare—!" squealed Aunt Petunia, but again, Vernon waved her down: Slights on his personal appearance were, it seemed, as nothing to the danger he had spotted. "Just in case you've forgotten," said Harry, "I've already got a house, my godfather left me one. So why would I want this one? All the happy memories?" There was silence. Harry thought he had rather impressed his uncle with this argument. "You claim," said Uncle Vernon, starting to pace yet again, "that this Lord Thing—" "—Voldemort," said Harry impatiently, "and we've been through this about a hundred times already. This isn't a claim, it's fact, Dumbledore

耍点花招，在我们知道之前，契约就会写在你的名下，然后——”“你疯了吗？”哈利问。 “密谋得到这所房子？” 你真的像你看起来那么笨吗？”“你敢——！”佩妮姨妈尖声叫道，但弗农又挥了挥手，示意她不要去。与他发现的危险相比，对他个人外表的轻视似乎微不足道。 “恐怕你忘了，”哈利说，“我已经有一所房子了，我教父留给我的。 那我为什么要这个？ 所有快乐的回忆？”一阵沉默。 哈利觉得他的这番话给姨父留下了相当深刻的印象。 “你说，”弗农姨父说，又开始踱步了，“这个魔王——”“——伏地魔，”哈利不耐烦地说，“我们已经说过一百遍了。 这不是声明，这是事实，邓布利多

told you last year, and Kingsley and Mr. Weasley—" Vernon Dursley hunched his shoulders angrily, and Harry guessed that his uncle was attempting to ward off recollections of the unannounced visit, a few days into Harry's summer holidays, of two fully grown wizards. The arrival on the doorstep of Kingsley Shacklebolt and Arthur Weasley had come as a most unpleasant shock to the Dursleys. Harry had to admit, however, that as Mr. Weasley had once demolished half of the living room, his reappearance could not have been expected to delight Uncle Vernon. "—Kingsley and Mr. Weasley explained it all as well," Harry pressed on remorselessly. "Once I'm seventeen, the protective charm that keeps me safe will break, and that exposes you as well as me. The Order is sure Voldemort will target you, whether to torture you to try and find out where I

去年我告诉过你，金斯莱和韦斯莱先生——”弗农·德思礼生气地耸了耸肩，哈利猜想姨父是在竭力不让自己想起，在哈利放暑假没几天的时候，有两个成年巫师突然来访。 金斯莱·沙克尔和亚瑟·韦斯莱来到德思礼家的台阶上，这对德思礼一家来说是一个非常不愉快的打击。 然而，哈利不得不承认，韦斯莱先生曾经把半个客厅都毁了，他的再次出现不可能让弗农姨父高兴。 “——金斯莱和韦斯莱先生也都解释了。”哈利无情地继续说。 “一旦我到了十七岁，保护我安全的护身符就会失效，那就会暴露你和我。 凤凰社确信伏地魔会以你为目标，折磨你，试图找出我在哪里