6 The Ghoul in Pajamas

CHAPTER SIX THE GHOUL IN PAJAMAS The shock of losing Mad-Eye hung over the house in the days that followed; Harry kept expecting to see him stumping in through the back door like the other Order members, who passed in and out to relay news. Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and

六穿睡衣的食尸鬼在接下来的日子里，失去疯眼汉的震惊笼罩着整座房子；哈利一直以为他会像凤凰社的其他成员一样，从后门大步走进来，进进出出地传递消息。 哈利觉得只有行动才能减轻他的罪恶感

grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible. "Well, you can't do anything about the" —Ron mouthed the word Horcruxes— "till you're seventeen. You've still got the Trace on you. And we can plan here as well as anywhere, can't we? Or," he dropped his voice to a whisper, "d'you reckon you already know where the You-Know- Whats are?" "No," Harry admitted. "I think Hermione's been doing a bit of research," said Ron. "She said she was saving it for when you got here." They were sitting at the breakfast table; Mr. Weasley and Bill had just left for work. Mrs. Weasley had gone upstairs to wake Hermione and Ginny, while Fleur had drifted off to take a bath. "The Trace'll break on the thirty-first," said Harry. "That means I only need to stay here four days. Then I can—"

他很悲伤，他应该尽快开始寻找并摧毁魂器的任务。 “嗯，你不能对——”罗恩口口说出魂器这个词，“直到十七岁。 你身上还带着踪丝。 我们在这里也可以做计划，不是吗？ 或者，”他压低声音说，“你认为你已经知道神秘物在哪里了吗？”“没有。”哈利承认。 “我想赫敏做了一些研究。”罗恩说。 “她说她留着等你来的时候再喝。” 他们正坐在早餐桌旁；韦斯莱先生和比尔刚去上班。 韦斯莱夫人上楼去叫醒赫敏和金妮，芙蓉则迷迷糊糊地去洗澡了。 “痕迹会在31号断裂。”哈利说。 “那就是说我只需要在这里待四天。 然后我就可以——”

"Five days," Ron corrected him firmly. "We've got to stay for the wedding. They'll kill us if we miss it." Harry understood "they" to mean Fleur and Mrs. Weasley. "It's one extra day," said Ron, when Harry looked mutinous. "Don't they realize how important—?" "'Course they don't," said Ron. "They haven't got a clue. And now you mention it, I wanted to talk to you about that." Ron glanced toward the door into the hall to check that Mrs. Weasley was not returning yet, then leaned in closer to Harry. "Mum's been trying to get it out of Hermione and me. What we're off to do. She'll try you next, so brace yourself. Dad and Lupin've both asked as well, but when we said Dumbledore told you not to tell anyone except us, they dropped it. Not Mum, though. She's determined."

“五天。”罗恩坚决地纠正他。 “我们必须留下来参加婚礼。 如果我们错过了，他们会杀了我们的。” 哈利明白“他们”指的是芙蓉和韦斯莱夫人。 “又多了一天。”罗恩看到哈利露出反抗的神情，说道。 “难道他们没有意识到有多重要——？”“他们当然不知道。”罗恩说。 “他们毫无头绪。既然你提到了，我正想跟你谈谈呢。” 罗恩朝通向门厅的门瞥了一眼，看看韦斯莱夫人是否还没有回来，然后凑近了哈利。 “妈妈一直想把它从赫敏和我嘴里套出来。 我们要做的事。下一个就是你了，打起精神来。 爸爸和卢平也问过，但是当我们说邓布利多告诉你除了我们之外不要告诉任何人的时候，他们就放弃了。 但妈妈不会。她决定。”

Ron's prediction came true within hours. Shortly before lunch, Mrs. Weasley detached Harry from the others by asking him to help identify a lone man's sock that she thought might have come out of his rucksack. Once she had him cornered in the tiny scullery off the kitchen, she started. "Ron and Hermione seem to think that the three of you are dropping out of Hogwarts," she began in a light, casual tone. "Oh," said Harry. "Well, yeah. We are." The mangle turned of its own accord in a corner, wringing out what looked like one of Mr. Weasley's vests. "May I ask why you are abandoning your education?" said Mrs. Weasley. "Well, Dumbledore left me... stuff to do," mumbled Harry. "Ron and Hermione know about it, and they want to come too." mclhfa. "What sort of 'stuff'?"

几个小时后，罗恩的预言就成真了。 午饭前不久，韦斯莱夫人让哈利帮忙辨认一只孤零零的男人的袜子，她认为那只袜子可能是从他的背包里拿出来的，把哈利从其他人身边拉开了。 当她把他逼进厨房旁边的小洗碗室时，她开始行动了。 “罗恩和赫敏似乎认为你们三个要从霍格沃茨退学了。”她用一种轻松、随意的语气说。 “哦。”哈利说。“嗯,是的。 我们。”轧衣机在一个角落里自动转了个身，拧出了一件像是韦斯莱先生的背心的东西。 “我可以问一下你为什么放弃学业吗？”韦斯莱夫人说。 “嗯，邓布利多离开了我…… 有事情要做。”哈利咕哝道。 “罗恩和赫敏知道了，他们也想去。” “什么样的‘东西’？”

"I'm sorry, I can't—" "Well, frankly, I think Arthur and I have a right to know, and I'm sure Mr. and Mrs. Granger would agree!" said Mrs. Weasley. Harry had been afraid of the "concerned parent" attack. He forced himself to look directly into her eyes, noticing as he did so that they were precisely the same shade of brown as Ginny's. This did not help. "Dumbledore didn't want anyone else to know, Mrs. Weasley. I'm sorry. Ron and Hermione don't have to come, it's their choice—" "I don't see that you have to go either!" she snapped, dropping all pretense now. "You're barely of age, any of you! It's utter nonsense, if Dumbledore needed work doing, he had the whole Order at his command! Harry, you must have misunderstood him. Probably he was telling you something he wanted done, and you took it to mean that he wanted you—"

“嗯，坦白地说，我认为亚瑟和我有权知道，我相信格兰杰夫妇也会同意的！”韦斯莱夫人说。 哈利一直害怕“忧心忡忡的家长”的攻击。 他强迫自己直视她的眼睛，注意到那双眼睛和金妮的眼睛是一模一样的棕色。 但这无济于事。“邓布利多不想让别人知道，韦斯莱夫人。 我很抱歉。罗恩和赫敏不必去，这是他们自己的选择——”“我看你也不必去！”她厉声说，放下了所有的伪装。 “你们都还没到成年！”简直是胡说八道，如果邓布利多需要做什么，整个凤凰社都听命于他！哈利，你一定是误会他了。 也许他是在告诉你一件他想让你完成的事情，而你却以为他想让你——”

"I didn't misunderstand," said Harry flatly. "It's got to be me." He handed her back the single sock he was supposed to be identifying, which was patterned with golden bulrushes. "And that's not mine, I don't support Puddlemere United." "Oh, of course not," said Mrs. Weasley with a sudden and rather unnerving return to her casual tone. "I should have realized. Well, Harry, while we've still got you here, you won't mind helping with the preparations for Bill and Fleur's wedding, will you? There's still so much to do." "No— I— of course not," said Harry, disconcerted by this sudden change of subject. "Sweet of you," she replied, and she smiled as she left the scullery. From that moment on, Mrs. Weasley kept Harry, Ron, and Hermione so busy with preparations for the wedding that they hardly had

“我没有误解。”哈利平淡地说。 “必须是我。”他把他应该辨认的那只袜子还给了她，上面有金色灯心草的图案。 “那不是我的，我不支持普德米尔联队。” “哦，当然不会。”韦斯莱夫人突然恢复了她那漫不经心的语调，这让人有些不安。 “我早该意识到的。好了，哈利，既然你还在这里，你不会介意帮我们准备比尔和芙蓉的婚礼吧？ 还有很多事情要做。” “不——我——当然不知道。”哈利说，突然改变话题使他感到很不安。 “你真好。”她回答，微笑着离开了厨房。 从那一刻起，韦斯莱夫人让哈利、罗恩和赫敏忙着准备婚礼，他们几乎没有时间