32 The Elder Wand

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO THE ELDER WAND The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in free fall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossibility, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying—

第三十二章老魔杖世界末日了，为什么战斗没有停止，城堡里一片恐怖的寂静，每个战士都放下了武器？ 哈利的思想像自由落体一样，失去了控制，旋转着，无法理解这是不可能的，因为弗雷德·韦斯莱不可能死了，他所有感官的证据一定在撒谎——

And then a body fell past the hole blown into the side of the school, and curses flew in at them from the darkness, hitting the wall behind their heads. "Get down!" Harry shouted, as more curses flew through the night: He and Ron had both grabbed Hermione and pulled her to the floor, but Percy lay across Fred's body, shielding it from further harm, and when Harry shouted, "Percy, come on, we've got to move!" he shook his head. "Percy!" Harry saw tear tracks streaking the grime coating Ron's face as he seized his elder brother's shoulders and pulled, but Percy would not budge. "Percy, you can't do anything for him! We're going to—" Hermione screamed, and Harry, turning, did not need to ask why. A monstrous spider the size of a small car was trying to climb through the huge hole in the wall: One of Aragog's descendants had joined the fight.

就在这时，一具尸体从学校侧面炸开的洞旁掉了下来，黑暗中有咒语朝他们飞来，打在他们脑后的墙上。 “下来!”哈利喊道，更多的咒语在夜空中飞来飞去。他和罗恩都抓住赫敏，把她拖到地板上，但珀西趴在弗雷德的身体上，挡住了它，不让它受到进一步的伤害。哈利喊道：“珀西，快点儿，我们得走了！” “珀西!”哈利看见罗恩脸上的污垢上有泪痕，他一把抓住哥哥的肩膀，使劲一拉，但珀西纹丝不动。 “珀西，你帮不了他什么！”我们要——”赫敏尖叫道，哈利转过身来，根本不用问为什么。 一只小汽车大小的大蜘蛛正试图从墙上的大洞里爬出来：阿拉戈克的一个后代加入了战斗。

Ron and Harry shouted together; their spells collided and the monster was blown backward, its legs jerking horribly, and vanished into the darkness. "It brought friends!" Harry called to the others, glancing over the edge of the castle through the hole in the wall the curses had blasted: More giant spiders were climbing the side of the building, liberated from the Forbidden Forest, into which the Death Eaters must have penetrated. Harry fired Stunning Spells down upon them, knocking the lead monster into its fellows, so that they rolled back down the building and out of sight. Then more curses came soaring over Harry's head, so close he felt the force of them blow his hair. "Let's move, NOW!" Pushing Hermione ahead of him with Ron, Harry stooped to seize Fred's body under the armpits. Percy, realizing what Harry was trying to do, stopped clinging to the body and helped;

罗恩和哈利一起喊道。他们的咒语碰撞在一起，怪物被吹向后方，腿可怕地抽搐着，消失在黑暗中。 “它带来了朋友！”哈利叫着其他人，透过魔咒炸开的墙上的洞朝城堡的边缘望去：更多的大蜘蛛从禁林里爬了出来，食死徒一定是闯进了禁林。 哈利朝他们发射了昏迷咒，把领头的怪物撞到了它的同伴身上，它们滚下了大楼，消失了。 接着，更多的咒语从哈利头顶上呼啸而过，离他很近，他感到咒语的力量吹动了他的头发。 “我们走吧，现在！”哈利把赫敏和罗恩推到前面，弯下腰抓住弗雷德的腋窝。 珀西意识到哈利的意图，不再抓着尸体，去帮忙。

together, crouching low to avoid the curses flying at them from the grounds, they hauled Fred out of the way. "Here," said Harry, and they placed him in a niche where a suit of armor had stood earlier. He could not bear to look at Fred a second longer than he had to, and after making sure that the body was well hidden, he took off after Ron and Hermione. Malfoy and Goyle had vanished, but at the end of the corridor, which was now full of dust and falling masonry, glass long gone from the windows, he saw many people running backward and forward, whether friends or foes he could not tell. Rounding the corner, Percy let out a bull-like roar: "ROOKWOOD!" and sprinted off in the direction of a tall man, who was pursuing a couple of students. "Harry, in here!" Hermione screamed. fclnef. She had pulled Ron behind a tapestry: They seemed to be wrestling together, and for one mad

他们一起蹲下身子，躲开从场地上向他们飞来的魔咒，把弗雷德拖到一边。 “在这儿。”哈利说，他们把他放在一个壁龛里，那是先前放着一套盔甲的地方。 他不能再多看弗雷德一秒钟了，在确定尸体藏得很好之后，他就跟着罗恩和赫敏走了。 马尔福和高尔已经不见了，但在走廊的尽头，他看到许多人跑来跑去，不知道是敌是友。走廊上满是灰尘和掉落的砖石，窗户上的玻璃早已脱落。 转过拐角，珀西像公牛一样吼了一声：“卢克伍德！”然后朝一个高个子男人的方向飞奔而去，那个高个子男人正在追赶两个学生。 “哈利，在这里！”赫敏尖叫。 她把罗恩拉到一块挂毯后面，他们似乎在扭打在一起，一个疯了

second Harry thought that they were embracing again; then he saw that Hermione was trying to restrain Ron, to stop him running after Percy. "Listen to me— LISTEN, RON!" "I wanna help— I wanna kill Death Eaters—" His face was contorted, smeared with dust and smoke, and he was shaking with rage and grief. "Ron, we're the only ones who can end it! Please— Ron— we need the snake, we've got to kill the snake!" said Hermione. But Harry knew how Ron felt: Pursuing another Horcrux could not bring the satisfaction of revenge; he too wanted to fight, to punish them, the people who had killed Fred, and he wanted to find the other Weasleys, and above all make sure, make quite sure, that Ginny was not— but he could not permit that idea to form in his mind— "We will fight!" Hermione said. "We'll have to, to reach the snake! But let's not lose sight now of

哈利又想到他们又拥抱在一起了；然后他看到赫敏正试图制止罗恩，不让他去追珀西。 “听我说——听我说，罗恩！”“我想帮忙——我想杀死食死徒——”他的脸扭曲了，沾满了灰尘和烟雾，由于愤怒和悲伤，他浑身发抖。 “罗恩，只有我们才能结束这一切！”求你了——罗恩——我们需要那条蛇，我们必须杀死那条蛇！”赫敏说。 但哈利明白罗恩的感受：追求另一个魂器并不能带来复仇的满足感。他也想战斗，想惩罚他们，那些杀死弗雷德的人，他想找到韦斯莱家的其他人，最重要的是要确定，要非常确定，金妮没有——但他不能允许这个想法在他的脑海里形成——“我们要战斗！”赫敏说。 “我们必须这么做，才能抓到那条蛇！”但我们现在不要忽视

what we're supposed to be d-doing! We're the only ones who can end it!" She was crying too, and she wiped her face on her torn and singed sleeve as she spoke, but she took great heaving breaths to calm herself as, still keeping a tight hold on Ron, she turned to Harry. "You need to find out where Voldemort is, because he'll have the snake with him, won't he? Do it, Harry— look inside him!" Why was it so easy? Because his scar had been burning for hours, yearning to show him Voldemort's thoughts? He closed his eyes on her command, and at once, the screams and the bangs and all the discordant sounds of the battle were drowned until they became distant, as though he stood far, far away from them.... He was standing in the middle of a desolate but strangely familiar room, with peeling paper on the walls and all the windows boarded except for one. The sounds of the assault on the castle were

我们应该做的事！我们是唯一能结束这一切的人！”她也在哭，一边说着，一边用被撕破的、烧焦的袖子擦了擦脸，但她大口大口地喘着气，让自己平静下来，一边仍然紧紧地抓着罗恩，然后转向哈利。 “你需要找出伏地魔在哪里，因为他会把那条蛇带在身边，是不是？” 动手吧，哈利——看看他的身体！”为什么这么容易？ 因为他的伤疤已经灼烧了好几个小时，渴望向他展示伏地魔的思想？ 他一听她的命令就闭上了眼睛，顿时，战斗的尖叫声、撞击声和所有不和谐的声音都被淹没了，直到它们变得遥远，仿佛他站在离它们很远很远的地方.... 他站在一间荒凉却出奇地熟悉的房间中央，墙上的纸都剥落了，除了一扇窗户外，所有的窗户都钉上了木板。 攻击城堡的声音是