31 The Battle of Hogwarts

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS The enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the four long House tables were lined with disheveled students, some in traveling cloaks, others in dressing gowns. Here and there shone the pearly white figures of the school ghosts. Every eye, living and dead, was fixed upon Professor

第三十一章霍格沃茨之战礼堂里施了魔法的天花板上黑黢黢的，星星点点，下面是学院的四张长桌子，排满了衣冠不整的学生，有的穿着旅行斗篷，有的穿着睡袍。 学校里珍珠般洁白的幽灵到处闪烁。 每只眼睛，无论是活人还是死人，都盯着教授

McGonagall, who was speaking from the raised platform at the top of the Hall. Behind her stood the remaining teachers, including the palomino centaur, Firenze, and the members of the Order of the Phoenix who had arrived to fight. "...evacuation will be overseen by Mr. Filch and Madam Pomfrey. Prefects, when I give the word, you will organize your House and take your charges, in an orderly fashion, to the evacuation point." Many of the students looked petrified. However, as Harry skirted the walls, scanning the Gryffindor table for Ron and Hermione, Ernie Macmillan stood up at the Hufflepuff table and shouted, "And what if we want to stay and fight?" There was a smattering of applause. "If you are of age, you may stay," said Professor McGonagall. "What about our things?" called a girl at the Ravenclaw table. "Our trunks, our owls?"

她站在礼堂顶端的高台上说。 她身后站着剩下的老师，包括帕洛米诺马人、费伦泽和前来战斗的凤凰社成员。 “…撤离将由费尔奇先生和庞弗雷夫人监督。 级长们，我一下令，你们就组织好你们的学院，带着你们负责的人，有秩序地到疏散点去。” 许多学生都吓呆了。 然而，正当哈利绕过墙壁，在格兰芬多的桌子上寻找罗恩和赫敏时，厄尼·麦克米伦在赫奇帕奇的桌子旁站了起来，喊道：“如果我们想留下来战斗呢？”响起了零星的掌声。 “如果你成年了，就可以留下。”麦格教授说。 “我们的东西怎么办？”拉文克劳桌旁的一个女孩问。 “我们的箱子，我们的猫头鹰？”

"We have no time to collect possessions," said Professor McGonagall. "The important thing is to get you out of here safely." "Where's Professor Snape?" shouted a girl from the Slytherin table. "He has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk," replied Professor McGonagall, and a great cheer erupted from the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Harry moved up the Hall alongside the Gryffindor table, still looking for Ron and Hermione. As he passed, faces turned in his direction, and a great deal of whispering broke out in his wake. "We have already placed protection around the castle," Professor McGonagall was saying, "but it is unlikely to hold for very long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, therefore, to move quickly and calmly, and do as your prefects—"

“我们没有时间收拾东西了。”麦格教授说。 “最重要的是让你安全离开这里。” “斯内普教授在哪儿？”斯莱特林桌旁的一个女孩喊道。 “用通俗的话来说，他逃走了。”麦格教授回答道，格兰芬多、赫奇帕奇和拉文克劳的同学们爆发出一阵热烈的欢呼声。 哈利沿着格兰芬多的桌子往前走，仍然在寻找罗恩和赫敏。 当他走过的时候，人们都把脸转向他的方向，在他身后响起了一阵窃窃私语。 “我们已经在城堡周围布置了防御工事，”麦格教授说，“但除非我们加强防御，否则不太可能坚持多久。 因此，我必须要求你们迅速而冷静地行动，按照你们的级长——”

But her final words were drowned as a different voice echoed throughout the Hall. It was high, cold, and clear: There was no telling from where it came; it seemed to issue from the walls themselves. Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries. "I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood." There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls. "Give me Harry Potter," said Voldemort's voice, "and none shall be harmed. fclnef. Give me Harry

但她最后的话被淹没了，因为另一个声音在庄园里回荡。 那风很高、很冷、很清澈，看不出是从哪里来的。它似乎是从墙壁本身发出来的。 就像它曾经指挥的怪物一样，它可能已经在那里沉睡了几个世纪。 “我知道你在准备战斗。” 学生们尖叫起来，有些人紧紧抓住对方，惊恐地四下张望，寻找声音的来源。 “你的努力是徒劳的。你打不过我的。 我不想杀你。 我非常尊敬霍格沃茨的老师们。 我不想让魔法人流血。” 现在礼堂里一片寂静，那种压在耳膜上的寂静，似乎太大了，墙壁无法阻挡。 “把哈利·波特交出来，”伏地魔的声音说，“谁也不会受到伤害。 把哈利给我

Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. "You have until midnight." The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold him frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him!" Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking toward Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere,

波特，我不会动学校的。 把哈利·波特给我，你就会得到奖赏。 “到午夜为止。” 寂静又把他们吞没了。 每个人的头都转过来了，每个人的眼睛似乎都找到了哈利，都想把他冻死在成千上万束看不见的光中。 这时，一个人影从斯莱特林的桌子上站起来，哈利认出了潘西·帕金森，她举起一只颤抖的手臂，尖叫道：“可是他在那儿！波特的!谁来抓住他！”哈利还没来得及说话，就有一阵骚动。 他前面的格兰芬多学生站了起来，面朝哈利，而是斯莱特林的学生。 接着赫奇帕奇的学生们站了起来，几乎同时，拉文克劳的学生们也站了起来，他们全都背对着哈利，全都把目光转向了潘西。哈利感到敬畏和不知所措，他看到到处都是魔杖，

pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves. "Thank you, Miss Parkinson," said Professor McGonagall in a clipped voice. "You will leave the Hall first with Mr. Filch. If the rest of your House could follow." Harry heard the grinding of benches and then the sound of the Slytherins trooping out on the other side of the Hall. "Ravenclaws, follow on!" cried Professor McGonagall. Slowly the four tables emptied. The Slytherin table was completely deserted, but a number of older Ravenclaws remained seated while their fellows filed out; even more Hufflepuffs stayed behind, and half of Gryffindor remained in their seats, necessitating Professor McGonagall's descent from the teachers' platform to chivvy the underage on their way.

从斗篷下面和袖子下面扯出来。 “谢谢你，帕金森小姐。”麦格教授用急促的声音说。 “你和费尔奇先生先离开礼堂。 如果你们学院的其他人也能跟着来的话。” 哈利听见长凳的磨擦声，接着是斯莱特林们从礼堂另一边走出来的声音。 “拉文克劳，跟我来！”麦格教授喊道。 四张桌子慢慢地空了。 斯莱特林的桌子空无一人，只有一些年纪较大的拉文克劳同学坐着，同学们鱼贯而入。更多的赫奇帕奇留在后面，格兰芬多的一半学生留在座位上，麦格教授只得从讲台上下来，用马车把这些未成年学生赶过去。