“我们的女儿怎么样了？”她问，“海格说你们遭了埋伏。尼法朵拉呢？”
“不知道，”哈利说，“我们也不知道其他人怎么样了。”
她和泰德交换了一下目光。哈利看到他们的表情，心里又是担忧又是内疚。如果其他人中间有谁死了，那便是他的错，全是他的错。是他同意了那个计划，给出了自己的头发……
“门钥匙，”他说，一下子全想起来了，“我们必须回陋居弄清情况——然后就能给你们捎信，或者——或者唐克斯自己给你们捎信，一旦她——”
“朵拉不会有事的，多米达「即安多米达。布莱克。」，”泰德说，“她心里有数，她和傲罗们一起经历了许多危险的场面。门钥匙就在这儿，”他又对哈利说，“如果你们想用它，应该是三分钟内出发。”
“好的，我们用它。”哈利说。他抓起背包，背到肩上。“我——”
他看着唐克斯夫人，想说一句道歉的话，因为是他让她处于这种忧心忡忡的状态，他认为自己负有不可推卸的责任，可是他又觉得说什么都显得空洞、虚伪。
“我会叫唐克斯——朵拉——给你们送信，等她……感谢你们救了我们，感谢一切。我——”
他离开房间后才松了口气，跟着泰德。唐克斯穿过一条短短的过道，进入了一间卧室。海格也跟来了，身子弯得低低的，以免脑袋撞到门框。
“你们走吧，孩子。那是门钥匙。”
唐克斯先生指着梳妆台上一把小小的银背发刷。
“谢谢。”哈利探身把一个手指放在上面，准备离开。
“等等，”海格四处张望着说，“哈利，海德薇呢？”
“它……它被击中了。”哈利说。
哈利猛然认清了这个事实，他为自己感到羞愧，泪水火辣辣地刺痛了他的眼睛。猫头鹰是他的伴侣，是他每次被迫返回德思礼家后与魔法世界的一个重要联系。
海格伸出一只大手，沉痛地拍了拍他的肩膀。
“别难过，”他用粗哑的声音说，“别难过。它这辈子过得可不平凡——”
“海格！”泰德。唐克斯提醒道，发刷已经放射出耀眼的蓝光，海格及时把食指放在它上面——
说时迟那时快，似乎肚脐眼后面有一个无形的钩子猛地向前一钩，哈利和海格忽地一下离开了唐克斯先生，被拽着飞入虚空。

“Ron and Tonks should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them.” she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying on the ground nearby. “And that one,” she pointed at an ancient sneaker, “should have been Dad and Fred’s, they were supposed to be second. You and Hagrid were third and,” she checked her watch, “if they made it, George and Lupin ought
to be back in about a minute.”
Mrs. Weasley reappeared carrying a bottle of brandy, which she handed to Hagrid. He uncorked it and drank it straight down in one.
“Mum!” shouted Ginny, pointing to a spot several feet away.
A blue light had appeared in the darkness; It grew larger and brighter, and Lupin and George appeared, spinning and thenfalling. Harry knew immediately that there was something wrong:
Lupin was supporting George, who was unconscious and whose face was covered in blood.
Harry ran forward and seized George’s legs. Together, he and Lupin carried George into the house and through the kitchen to the sitting room, where they laid him on the sofa. As the lamplight fell across George’s head, Ginny gasped and Harry’s stomach lurched; One of George’s ears was missing. The side of his head and neck was drenched in wet, shockingly scarlet blood.
No sooner had Mrs. Weasley bent over her son than Lupin grabbed Harry by the upper arm and dragged him, none too gently, back into the kitchen, where Hagrid was still attempting to ease his bulk through the back door.
“Oi!” said Hagrid indignantly. “Le’ go of him! Le’ go of Harry!”
Lupin ignored him.
“What creature sat in the corner the first time that Harry Potter visited my office at Hogwarts?” he said, giving Harry a small shake.
“Answer me!”
“A—a grindylow in a tank, wasn’t it?”
Lupin released Harry and fell back against a kitchen cupboard.
“Wha’ was that’ about?” roared Hagrid.
“I’m sorry Harry, but I had to check” said Lupin tersely. “We’ve been betrayed. Voldemort knew that you were being moved tonight and the only people who could have told him were directly involved in the plan. You might have been an impostor.”
“So why aren’ you checkin’ me?” panted Hagrid, still struggling with the door.
“You’re half-giant,” said Lupin, looking up at Hagrid. “The Polyjuice Potion is designed for human use only.”

“罗恩和唐克斯应该第一批回来，但他们错过了门钥匙，门钥匙自己回来了。”金妮说着，指了指旁边地上一个锈迹斑斑的油罐。“还有那个，”她又指了指一只破旧的旅游鞋，“是爸爸和弗雷德的，他们应该第二批到达。你和海格是第三批，然后，”她看了看表，“如果不出意外，乔治和卢平应该在一分钟内回来。”
韦斯莱夫人拿着一瓶白兰地回来了，她把酒递给海格。海格拔出瓶塞，一口就喝干了。
“妈妈！”金妮指着几步开外的一个地方喊道。
黑暗中突然有了一点蓝光：越来越大，越来越亮，接着卢平和乔治出现了，嗖嗖旋转着落到地上。哈利立刻知道出事了：卢平架着乔治，乔治满脸是血，不省人事。
哈利跑过去抓住乔治的腿。他和卢平一起抬头乔治走进房子，穿过厨房来到客厅，把他放在沙发上。灯光照在乔治的脑袋上，金妮倒吸了一口冷气，哈利心里猛地抽了一下。乔治的一只耳朵不见了。他脑袋一侧和脖子里满是殷红的、触目惊心的鲜血。
韦斯莱夫人刚俯下身去查看她的儿子，卢平就一把抓住哈利的胳膊，颇为粗暴地把他拉进厨房，海格还在努力把他那庞大的身躯挤进后门。
“喂！”海格气愤地说，“放开他！放开哈利！”
卢平没理睬他。
“哈利。波特第一次到我在霍格沃茨的办公室时，蹲在墙角的是什么动物？”他轻轻摇晃了一下哈利说，“快回答！”
“是——一个格林迪洛，关在水箱里，对吗？”
卢平松开了哈利，仰身靠在厨房的碗橱上。
“这是搞什么鬼？”海格吼道。
“对不起，哈利，但我得核实一下，”卢平生硬地说，“有人叛变了。伏地魔知道我们今晚转移，只有直接参与制订计划的人才会向他通风报信。你很可能是个冒牌货。”
“那你干吗不来核实我？”海格气喘吁吁地问，仍然挣扎着想把身子挤进门框。
“你是混血巨人，”卢平抬头看着海格说，“复方汤剂只是给普通人用的。”

“None of the Order would have told Voldemort we were movingtonight,” said Harry. The idea was dreadful to him, he could notbelieve it of any of them. “Voldemort only caught up with metoward the end, he didn’t know which one I was in the beginning.If he’d been in on the plan he’d have known from the start I wasthe one with Hagrid.”
“Voldemort caught up with you?” said Lupin sharply. “Whathappened? How did you escape?”
Harry explained briefly how the Death Eaters pursuing themhad seemed to recognize him as the true Harry, how they had abandonedthe chase, how they must have summoned Voldemort, whohad appeared just before he and Hagrid had reached the sanctuaryof Tonks’s parents.
“They recognized you? But how? What had you done?”
“I . . . ” Harry tried to remember; the whole journey seemed likea blur of panic and confusion. “I saw Stan Shunpike. . . . You know,the bloke who was the conductor on the Knight Bus? And I triedto Disarm him instead of—well, he doesn’t know what he’s doing,does he? He must be Imperiused!”
Lupin looked aghast.“Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are tryingto capture and killyou! At least Stun if you aren’t prepared tokill!”
“We were hundreds of feet up! Stan’s not himself and if Istunned him and he’d fallen, he’d have died the same as if I’dused Avada Kedavra!! Expelliarmus saved me from Voldemort twoyears ago,” Harry added defiantly. Lupin was reminding him ofthe sneering Hufflepuff Zacharias Smith, who had jeered at Harryfor wanting to teach Dumbledore’s Army how to Disarm.


“凤凰社的人谁也不会告诉伏地魔我们今晚转移。”哈利说。这种想法太可怕了，他不能相信他们中间的任何人会这么做。“伏地魔是最后才来追我的，他一开始并不知道哪个是我。如果他掌握了整个计划，一上来就会知道跟着海格的那个是我。”
“伏地魔追上你们了？”卢平警惕地问，“后来呢？你们是怎么逃脱的？”
哈利简单解释了一下，说追赶他们的食死徒认出了他是真哈利，他们突然放弃追赶，准是去报告伏地魔了，伏地魔刚一出现，他和海格就到达了唐克斯父母家的安全区。
“他们认出了你？怎么会呢？你做了什么？”
“我……”哈利努力回忆着，整个旅程都是一片模糊不清的紧张和混乱。“我看见了斯坦。桑帕克……你知道吧？就是骑士公共汽车上的那个售票员。我想给他施个缴械咒，而不是——唉，他根本不知道自己在做什么，是不是？他肯定中了夺魂咒！”
卢平一脸惊愕。
“哈利，缴械咒的时代已经过去了！这些人想要抓住你、干掉你！即使你不想杀人，至少也得用昏迷咒啊！”
“我们当时在几百米的高空！斯坦又是糊涂状态，如果我把他击昏，他肯定会掉下去，就像我对他施了阿瓦达索命咒一样必死无疑！两年前，除你武器就曾让我从伏地魔手里死里逃生。”哈利倔强地说。卢平使他想起了赫奇帕奇学院那个爱讥笑人的扎卡赖斯。史密斯，他当时就嘲笑哈利想教邓布利多军的成员学习缴械咒。

“Yes, Harry,” said Lupin with painful restraint, “and a greatnumber of Death Eaters witnessed that happening! Forgive me,but it was a very unusual move then, under imminent threat ofdeath. Repeating it tonight in front of Death Eaters who eitherwitnessed or heard about the first occasion was close to suicidal!”
“So you think I should have killed Stan Shunpike?” said Harryangrily.
“Of course not,” said Lupin, “but the Death Eaters—frankly,most people!—would have expected you to attack back! Expelliarmusis a useful spell, Harry, but the Death Eaters seem to think it is your signature move, and I urge you not to let it become so!”
Lupin was making Harry feel idiotic, and yet there was still agrain of defiance inside him.“I won’t blast people out of my way just because they’re there.”said Harry. “That’s Voldemort’s job.”
Lupin’s retort was last; Finally succeeding in squeezing throughthe door, Hagrid staggered to a chair and sat down: it collapsedbeneath him. Ignoring his mingled oaths and apologies, Harry addressed Lupin again.“Will George be okay?”
All Lupin’s frustration with Harry seemed to drain away at thequestion.“I think so, although there’s no chance of replacing his ear, not when it’s been cursed off—There was a scuffling from outside.
Lupin dived for the backdoor; Harry leapt over Hagrid’s legs and sprinted into the yard.Two figures had appeared in the yard, and as Harry ran towardthem he realized they were Hermione, now returning to her normalappearance, and Kingsley, both clutching a bent coat hanger. Her-mione flung herself into Harry’s arms, but Kingsley showed nopleasure at the sight of any of them.
Over Hermione’s shoulderHarry saw him raise his wand and point it at Lupin’s chest.“The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us!”
“Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him,” said Lupin calmly.
Kingsley turned his wand on Harry, but Lupin said, “It’s him,I’ve checked!”
“All right, all right!” said Kingsley, stowing his wand backbeneath his cloak. “But somebody betrayed us! They knew, theyknew it was tonight!”
“So it seems,” replied Lupin, “but apparently they did not realizethat there would be seven Harrys.”
“Small comfort!” snarled Kingsley. “Who else is back?”
“Only Harry, Hagrid, George, and me.”Hermione stifled a little moan behind her hand.“What happened to you?”
Lupin asked Kingsley.“Followed by five, injured two, might’ve killed one,” Kingsleyreeled off, “and we saw You-Know-Who as well, he joined the chasehalfway through but vanished pretty quickly. Remus, he can—”
“Fly,” supplied Harry. “I saw him too, he came after Hagridand me.”
“So that’s why he left, to follow you!” said Kingsley. “I couldn’tunderstand why he’d vanished. But what made him change targets?”
“Harry behaved a little too kindly to Stan Shunpike,” saidLupin.
“Stan?” repeated Hermione. “But I thought he was in Azkaban?”Kingsley let out a mirthless laugh.
“是啊，哈利，”卢平努力克制着自己说，“有一大批食死徒目睹了当时的情景！请原谅，但是在生死攸关的紧急关头，这种举动是十分反常的。食死徒目睹或听说过你的那次行为，今晚你在他们面前故伎重演，简直等于是自杀！”


“那你认为我应该杀死斯坦。桑帕克？”哈利气愤地说。
“当然不是，”卢平说，“但是食死徒——坦白地说，大多数人！——都以为你会出手反击！除你武器是一个很有用的咒语，哈利，但食死徒似乎把它看成你的标志性行为，我强烈要求你别造成这种情况！”
卢平的话使哈利觉得自己像个傻瓜，但是他心里仍有点儿不服气。
“我不能无缘无故地把挡我路的人咒死，”哈利说，“那是伏地魔的做法。”
卢平无言以对。海格终于成功地挤进门来，跌跌撞撞地走到椅子前坐下，椅子在他的重压下坍塌了。哈利没有理睬海格的咒骂和道歉，又对卢平说：
“乔治不会有事吧？”
听到这话，卢平对哈利的恼怒顿时烟消云散。
“我想不会，但他的耳朵不可能修复了，是被咒语击掉的——”
外面传来一阵乱哄哄的声音。卢平立刻朝后门口冲去，哈利跳过海格的腿，迅速奔到院子里。
院子里出现了两个人影，哈利飞跑过去，认出是赫敏——正在恢复她自己的相貌——和金斯莱，两人都抓着一只弯了的挂衣架。赫敏一头扑进哈利怀里，金斯莱看见他们却没有露出一丝喜悦。哈利从赫敏肩头上看见他举起魔杖，对准卢平的胸口。
“阿不思。邓布利多对我们俩说的最后一句话？”
“‘哈利是我们最宝贵的希望。相信他。’”卢平平静地说。
金斯莱又把魔杖转向哈利，卢平说：“是他，我检查过了！”
“好吧，好吧！”金斯莱说着把魔杖重新塞进长袍，“但是有人叛变了！他们知道了，他们知道是今晚！”
“好像是的，”卢平回答，“但看来他们不知道会有七个哈利。”
“那也好不了多少，”金斯莱恶声恶气地说，“还有谁回来了？”
“只有哈利、海格、乔治和我。”
赫敏用手捂着嘴，低低地哼了一声。
“你们怎么样？”卢平问金斯莱。
“五个人追，伤了两个，大概死了一个，”金斯莱一口气地说，“我们也看见神秘人了，他在一半的时候加入进来，可是很快就消失了。莱姆斯，他会——”
“会飞，”哈利插嘴道，“我也看见了，他来追海格和我。”
“怪不得他跑了，原来是去追你们了！”金斯莱说，“我还想不通他为什么消失呢。可是他怎么会改变目标的呢？”
“哈利对斯坦。桑帕克表现得太仁慈了点儿。”卢平说。
“斯坦？”赫敏跟着说了一句，“他不是在阿兹卡班吗？”
金斯莱悲哀地笑了一声。


“You did?” said Hermione, gazing up at Ron with her armsstill around his neck.
“Always the tone of surprise,” he said a little grumpily, breakingfree. “Are we the last back?”
“No,” said Ginny, “we’re still waiting for Bill and Fleur andMad-Eye and Mundungus. I’m going to tell Mum and Dad you’reokay, Ron—”She ran back inside.
“So what kept you? What happened?” Lupin sounded almost angry at Tonks.
“Bellatrix,” said Tonks. “She wants me quite as much as she wants Harry, Remus, she tried very hard to kill me. I just wish I’d got her, I owe Bellatrix. But we definitely injured Rodolphus.. . . Then we got to Ron’s Auntie Muriel’s and we’d missed our Portkey and she was fussing over us—”
A muscle was jumping in Lupin’s jaw. He nodded, but seemed unable to say anything else.
“So what happened to you lot?” Tonks asked, turning to Harry,Hermione, and Kingsley.They recounted the stories of their own journeys, but all the time the continued absence of Bill, Fleur, Mad-eye, and Mundungus seemed to lie upon them likea frost, its icy bite harder andharder to ignore.
“I’m going to have to get back to Downing Street, I should havebeen there an hour ago,” said Kingsley finally, after a last sweepinggaze at the sky. “Let me know when they’re back.”
Lupin nodded. With a wave to the others, Kingsley walked away into the darkness toward the gate. Harry thought he heardthe faintest pop as Kingsley Disapparated justbeyond the Burrow’sboundaries.Mr. and Mrs. Weasley came racing down the back steps, Ginny behind them. Both parents hugged Ron before turning to Lupin and Tonks.
“Thank you,” said Mrs. Weasley, “for our sons.”
“Don’t be silly, Molly,” said Tonks at once.
“How’s George?” asked Lupin.
“What’s wrong with him?” piped up Ron.
“He’s lost—”
“真的？”赫敏说，她一边仍用胳膊搂着罗恩的脖子，一边抬头看着他。
“老是用这种惊讶的口吻。”罗恩有点粗暴地说，挣脱了赫敏，“我们是最后回来的？”
“不是，”金妮说，“我们还在等比尔、芙蓉、疯眼汉和蒙顿格斯。罗恩，我去告诉爸爸妈妈你没事儿——”
她跑进了屋里。
“你们怎么耽搁了？出什么事了？”卢平简直在生唐克斯的气。
“贝拉特里克斯，”唐克斯说，“她不顾一切地想抓我，想抓哈利一样，莱姆斯。她千方百计想要我的命。我真希望抓住她，我应该抓住贝拉特里克斯的。不过我们肯定击伤了罗道夫斯……后来我们到了罗恩的穆丽尔姨婆家，却错过了门钥匙，她把我们好一顿埋怨——”
卢平面颊上的一块肌肉在跳动。他点点头，但似乎再也说不出话来。
“你们大家情况怎么样？”唐克斯转向哈利、赫敏和金斯莱问。
他们各自讲述了旅途上的遭遇，可是比尔、芙蓉、疯眼汉和蒙顿格斯一直没有回来，这事实像严霜一样压在他们心头，那冰冷的寒意越来越叫人无法忍受。
“我得回唐宁街了，一小时前就应该到那儿的，”金斯莱最后扫了一眼天空，说道，“他们一回来就告诉我。”
卢平点点头。金斯莱朝大家挥了挥手，穿过黑暗朝大门口走去。哈利仿佛听见噗的一声轻响，金斯莱一出陋居的范围就幻影移形了。
韦斯莱夫妇快速奔下后门台阶，后面跟着金妮。夫妇俩搂了搂罗恩又转向卢平和唐克斯。
“谢谢你们，”韦斯莱夫人说，“为了我们的儿子，谢谢你们。”
“别说傻话了，莫丽。”唐克斯立刻说。
“乔治怎么样？”卢平问。
“他怎么啦？”罗恩尖声问。
“他失去了——”

But the end of Mrs. Weasley’s sentence was drowned in a generaloutcry: A thestral had just soared into sight and landed a fewfeet from them. Bill and Fleur slid from its back, windswept butunhurt.
“Bill! Thank God, thank God—”
Mrs. Weasley ran forward, but the hug Bill bestowed upon herwas perfunctory.
Looking directly at his father, he said, “Mad-Eye’s dead.”
Nobody spoke, nobody moved. Harry felt as though somethinginside him was falling, falling through the earth, leaving him forever.
“We saw it,” said Bill; Fleur nodded, tear tracks glittering onher cheeks in the light from the kitchen window. “It happened justafter we broke out of the circle: Mad-Eye and Dung were close byus, they were heading north too, Voldemort—he can fly—wentstraight for them. Dung panicked, I heard him cry out, Mad-Eyetried to stop him, but he Disapparated. Voldemort’s curse hit Mad-Eye full in the face, he fell backward off his broom and—there wasnothing we could do, nothing, we had half a dozen of them on ourown tail—”Bill’s voice broke.
“Of course you couldn’t have done anything,” said Lupin.
They all stood looking at each other. Harry could not quitecomprehend it. Mad-Eye’s dead; it could not be . . . Mad-Eye, sotough, so brave, the consummate survivor . . .
At last it seemed to dawn on everyone, though nobody saidit, that there was no point waiting in the yard anymore, and insilence they followed Mr. and Mrs. Weasley back into the Burrow,and into the living room, where Fred and George were laughingtogether.
“What’s wrong?” said Fred, scanning their faced as they entered.“What happened? Who’s—?”
“Mad-Eye,” said Mr. Weasley. “Dead.”
韦斯莱夫人后面的话被一片高喊声淹没了。一匹夜骐赫然出现在天空，降落在离他们几步远的地方。比尔和芙蓉从夜骐背上滑下来，头发被风吹得乱蓬蓬的，但并没有受伤。
“比尔！谢天谢地，谢天谢地——”
韦斯莱夫人跑上前去，但比尔只是草草地搂了她一下，便直视着父亲说：“疯眼汉死了。”
没有人说话，没有人动弹。哈利觉得他内心某种东西在坠落、坠落，坠入地下，永远地离他而去了。
“我们看见了，”比尔说，芙蓉点点头，在厨房窗口的灯光映照下，她面颊上的泪痕闪闪发亮，“我们刚刚突破包围圈，事情就发生了。疯眼汉和顿格就在我们近旁，也是在往北飞，伏地魔——他会飞——直接就去追他们了。顿格吓坏了，我听见他高声大叫，疯眼汉想让他住嘴，没想到他幻影移形了。伏地魔的咒语不偏不倚地击中了疯眼汉的脸，疯眼汉朝后一倒，从扫帚上摔了下去——我们在一旁眼睁睁地看着，毫无办法，有六七个人在后面追我们——”
比尔说不下去了。
“你们当然没有办法。”卢平说。
大家站在那里面面相觑。哈利不能完全理解。疯眼汉死了，这不可能……疯眼汉，那么强悍，那么勇敢，久经死亡的考验……
最后，大家虽然没有说话，但也明白再在院子里等待已经毫无意义，于是都默默地跟着韦斯莱夫妇返回陋居，走进客厅，弗雷德和乔治正在那里哈哈大笑。
“怎么样？”弗雷德在他们进去时看了看他们的脸，问道，“出什么事了？谁——？”
“疯眼汉，”韦斯莱先生说，“死了。”
(看到吗看到吗？是谁一直出来安慰大家？是谁？？？？是莱莱和糖糖！）

The twins’ grins turned to grimaces of shock. Nobody seemed to know what to do. Tonks was crying silently into a handkerchief;She had been close to Mad-Eye, Harry knew, his favorite and hisprot´eg´e at the Ministry of Magic.
Hagrid, who had sat down onthe floor in the corner where he had most space, was dabbing athis eyes with his tablecloth-sized handkerchief.
Bill walked over to the sideboard and pulled out a bottle offirewhisky and some glasses.“Here,” he said, and with a wave of his wand he sent twelvefull classes soaring through the room to each of them, holding thethirteenth aloft.
“Mad-Eye,”
“Mad-Eye,” they all said, and drank.
“Mad-Eye,” echoed Hagrid, a little late, with a hiccup.
The firewhisky seared Harry’s throat. It seemed to burn feelingback into him, dispelling the numbness and sense of unreality,filling him with something that was like courage.
“So Mundungus disappeared?” said Lupin, who had drained his own glass in one.The atmosphere changed at once. Everybody looked tense,watching Lupin, both wanting him to go on, it seemed to Harry,and slightly afraid of what they might hear.
“I know what you’re thinking,” said Bill. “and I wondered thattoo, one the way back here, because they seemed to be expecting us,didn’t they? But Mundungus can’t have betrayed us. They didn’tknow there would be seven Harrys, that confused them the momentwe appeared, and in case you’ve forgotten, it was Mundungus whosuggested that little bit of skullduggery. Why wouldn’t he have toldthem the essential point? I think Dung panicked, it’s as simple asthat. He didn’t want to come in the first place, but Mad-Eye madehim, and You-Know-Who went straight for them. It was enough to make anyone panic.”
“You-Know-Who acted exactly as Mad-Eye expected him to,”sniffed Tonks, “Mad-Eye said he’s expect the real Harry to be withthe toughest, most skilled Aurors. He chased Mad-Eye first, andwhen Mundungus gave them away he switched to Kingsley. . . .”
“Yes, and zat eez all very good,” snapped Fleur, “but still eetdoes not explain ’ow zey knew we were moving ’Arry tonight, doesit? Somebody must ’ave been careless. Somebody let slip ze dateto an outsider. It is ze only explanation for zeim knowing ze datebut not ze ’ole plan.”She glared around at them all, tear tracks still etched on herbeautiful face, silently daring any of them to contradict her.
Nobodydid. The dnly sound to break the silence was that of Hagridhiccuping from behind his handkerchief.
Harry glanced at Hagrid,who had just risked his own life to save Harry’s—Hagrid, whomhe loved, whom he trusted, who had once been tricked into givingVoldemort crucial information in exchange for a dragon’s egg. . . .
“No,” Harry said out loud, and they all looked at him, surprised.The firewhisky seemed to have amplified his voice. “I mean . . . ifsomebody made a mistake,” Harry went on, “and let somethingslip, I know they didn’t mean to do it. It’s not their fault,” herepeated, again a little louder than he would usually have spoken.“We’ve got to trust each other. I trust all of you, I don’t thinkanyone in this room would ever sell me to Voldemort.”


More silence followed his words. They were all looking at him;Harry felt a little hot again and drank some more firewhisky forsomething to do. As he drank, he thought of Mad-eye. Mad-Eyehad always been scathing about Dumbledore’s willingness to trustpeople.
双胞胎兄弟脸上的笑容变成了惊愕。一时间似乎谁也不知道该怎么办。唐克斯用手帕捂着脸默默哭泣。哈利知道她跟疯眼汉一直很亲密，是疯眼汉在魔法部里最好的朋友，深受疯眼汉的关照。海格席地坐在几乎被他占满的墙角，用他桌布那么大的手帕擦着眼泪。
比尔走到餐具柜前，拿出一瓶火焰威士忌和几只玻璃杯。
“给，”他一挥魔杖，让十二只斟满酒的玻璃杯飞到屋里每个人手中，然后自己高举起第十三只杯子，“敬疯眼汉。”
“敬疯眼汉。”大家齐声说道，举杯饮酒。
“敬疯眼汉。”海格打了个嗝儿，比别人慢了一拍，像是回声。
火焰威士忌灼痛了哈利的喉咙，似乎驱散了麻木和不真实感，使他在烧灼中重新有了感觉，有了某种类似于勇气的东西。
“这么说，蒙顿格斯消失了？”卢平一口喝干了他杯里的酒，说道。
气氛立刻变了。每个人都神色紧张地望着卢平。在哈利看来，大家既希望他继续说下去，又有点害怕他们将会听到的话。
“我知道你在想什么，”比尔说，“在回这里的路上，我也有过那样的疑问，因为他们似乎知道我们要来，不是吗？但告密的不可能是蒙顿格斯。他们不知道会有七个哈利，我们一出现，就把他们搞糊涂了。也许你已经忘了，这个替身的点子就是蒙顿格斯提出来的，他为什么不把最关键的一点告诉他们呢？我认为顿格当时是紧张了，仅此而已。他本来就不想来，是疯眼汉强迫他的，神秘人直接朝他们追去，换了谁都会惊惶失措。”
“神秘人的做法跟疯眼汉预料的完全一样，”唐克斯抽噎着说，“疯眼汉说，神秘人肯定以为真的哈利会跟最强悍、最有经验的傲罗在一起。他首先去追疯眼汉，等蒙顿格斯露了馅，他才回身去追金斯莱……”
“是啊，那都没有问题，”芙蓉毫不客气地说，“可是仍然无法解释他们怎么知道我们今晚转移哈利，不是吗？肯定有人大意了。有人不小心把日期透露给了外人，这样才能解释他们只知道日期但不知道整个计划。”
她默默地瞪着大家，看有谁出来反驳她，美丽的脸上仍然印着泪痕。没有人说话。只有海格大手帕后面的嗝儿声打破了沉默。哈利看着刚才冒着生命危险救了自己的海格——海格，他爱戴和信任的海格，曾经为了换取一只龙蛋，受人哄骗，把重要情报泄露给了伏地魔……
“不会。”哈利大声说道，大家都吃惊地望着他。火焰威士忌似乎使他的声音放大了。“我的意思是……即使有人不小心犯了错误，”哈利继续说，“泄露了消息，我知道他们肯定不是故意的，不能怪他们。”他说话的声音还是比平常高。“我们必须彼此信任。我信任你们大家，我认为这个房间里的人谁也不会把我出卖给伏地魔。”
他说完后又是一阵沉默。大家都看着他。哈利又觉得有点儿燥热。为了找点事做，他又喝了几口火焰威士忌，一边喝，一边想着疯眼汉。疯眼汉以前问题责骂邓布利多轻易相信别人。

（这是三人组说道他们的任务）
“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 us as well, but when we said Dumbledore told you not to tell anyone except us, they dropped it. Not Mum, though. She’s determined.”
“妈妈一直想套赫敏和我的话，想弄清我们要做什么。她接下来就会找你了，做好准备吧。爸爸和卢平也问过我们，但我们说邓布利多叫你除了我们不告诉任何人，他们就不再问了。但妈妈不同，她是不会罢休的。”

“No news about Mad-Eye?” Harry asked Bill.
“Nothing,” replied Bill.
They had not been able to hold a funeral for Moody, because Bill and Lupin had failed to recover his body. It had been difficult to know where he might have fallen, given the darkness and the confusion of the battle.
“有疯眼汉的消息吗？”哈利问比尔。
“没有。”比尔回答。
他们没能为穆迪举行葬礼，因为比尔和卢平没有找到他的遗体。当时天很黑，双方一场混战，很难弄清他坠落到什么地方了。

（后面谈到哈利17岁生日宴会）
“I don’t want a fuss,” said Harry quickly, envisaging the addition
strain this would put on them all. “Really, Mrs. Weasley, just a normal dinner would be fine. . . . It’s the day before the wedding.. . .”
“Oh, well, if you’re sure, dear. I’ll invite Remus and Tonks, shall I? And how about Hagrid?”
“That’d be great,” said Harry. “But please don’t go to loads of trouble.”
“我不想兴师动众，”哈利设想这事会给他们增加压力，赶紧说道，“真的，韦斯莱夫人，一顿平平常常的晚餐就行了……就在婚礼的前一天……”
“哦，好吧，亲爱的，如果你真这样想。我邀请莱姆斯和唐克斯，好吗？海格呢？”
“那太棒了，”哈利说，“可是千万别太麻烦了。”