（生日宴会）
As Harry’s birthday dinner would have stretched the Burrow’s kitchen to breaking point even before the arrival of Charlie, Lupin, Tonks, and Hagrid, several tables were placed end to end in the garden. Fred and George bewitched a number of purple lanterns, all emblazoned with a large number 17, to hang in midair over the guests. Thanks to Mrs. Weasley’s ministrations, George’s wound was neat and clean, but Harry was not yet used to the dark hole in the side of his head, despite the twins’ many jokes about it.
早在查理、卢平、唐克斯和海格还没有到来之前，哈利的生日宴就把陋居厨房挤得快要爆炸了，于是就在花园里拼了几张桌子。弗雷德和乔治用魔法变出一大批紫色的灯笼，悬在客人们的头顶上。灯笼上闪着耀眼醒目的数字：“17”。多亏韦斯莱夫人的精心照料，乔治的伤口已变得光滑平整，但哈利还是不习惯他脑袋侧面那个黑乎乎的洞口，虽然双胞胎兄弟拿它开了许多玩笑。

By seven o’clock all the guests had arrived, led into the house by Fred and George, who had waited for them at the end of the lane. Hagrid had honored the occasion by wearing his best, and horrible, hairy brow suit. Although Lupin smiled as he shook Harry’s hand, Harry thought he looked rather unhappy. It was all very odd; Tonks, beside him, looked simply radiant.
“Happy birthday, Harry,” she said, hugging him tightly.
七点钟，客人们都来了，弗雷德和乔治站在小路尽头迎候，把他们领进屋子。海格为了表示重视，穿上了他最好的那件毛茸茸的褐色西服，难看极了。卢平跟哈利握手时虽然面带微笑，但哈利却觉得他似乎很不高兴。这可真奇怪。他身边的唐克斯看上去简直光彩照人。
“生日快乐，哈利。”唐克斯说着，紧紧地搂抱了他一下。
They all saw it at the same time: a streak of light that came flying across the yard and onto the table, where it resolved itself into a bright silver weasel, which stood on its hind legs and spoke with Mr. Weasley’s voice.
“Minister of Magic coming with me.”
The Patronus dissolved into thin air, leaving Fleur’s family peering in astonishment where it had vanished.
“We shouldn’t be here,” said Lupin at once. “Harry—I’m sorry—I’ll explain another time—”
He seized Tonks’s wrist and pulled her away; the reached the fence, climbed over it, and vanished from sight. Mrs. Weasley looked bewildered.
大家同时都看到：一道光掠过院子，蹿到桌上，变成了一只明亮的银色鼹鼠，它后腿直立，用韦斯莱先生的声音说话了。
“魔法部部长和我一起来了。”
守护神突然不见了踪影，芙蓉一家人惊愕地盯着它消失的地方。
“我们不应该在这儿，”卢平立刻说道，“哈利——抱歉了——我下次再解释——”
他抓住唐克斯的手腕把她拉走了。他们跑到栅栏前，翻过去不见了。韦斯莱夫人一脸迷惑。
（我总觉得这时候卢唐都已经知道糖糖有孩子了，莱莱突然担心的多起来了）

As they pushed their way across the dance floor, Harry saw cloaked and masked figures appearing in the crowd; then he saw Lupin and Tonks, their wands raised, and heard both of them shout, “Protego!”, a cry that was echoed on all sides—
他们穿过拥挤的舞池时，哈利看见人群里出现了一些穿斗篷、蒙面罩的身影。然后他发现了卢平和唐克斯，两人都举着魔杖，还听见他们同时大喊：“盔甲护身！”声音在四处回荡——
（莱莱糖糖你们太勇敢了！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！）

（这是三人组重新进入格里莫广场12号的时候）
As Harry closed the door behind them, the old-fashioned gas lamps sprang into life, casting flickering light along the length of the hallway. It looked just as Harry remembered it: eerie, cobwebbed, the outlines of the house-elf heads on the wall throwing odd shadows up the staircase. Long dark curtains concealed the portrait of Sirius’s mother. The only thing that was out of place was the troll’s leg umbrella stand, which was lying on its side as if Tonks had just knocked it over again.
哈利关上身后的门，老式的气灯一下子都亮了起来，闪烁不定的灯光照着长长的门厅。门厅还是哈利记忆中的那个样子：诡谲怪异，蛛网密布，墙上那些家养小精灵的脑袋在楼梯上投下古怪的阴影，长长的深色帘子遮住了小天狼星母亲的肖像。惟一不对劲儿的是那个用巨怪断腿做成的大伞架，它倒在地上，好像唐克斯又把它撞倒了似的。

（这是哈利进了小天的房间）
With a leap of pleasure, Harry recognized his father, his untidyblack hair stuck up at the back like Harry’s, and he too wore glasses. Beside him was Sirius, carelessly handsome, his slightly arrogant face so much younger and happier than Harry had ever seen it alive. To Sirius’s right stood Pettigrew, more than a head shorter, plump and watery-eyed, flushed with pleasure at his inclusion in this coolest of gangs, with the much-admired rebels that James and Sirius had been. On James’s left was Lupin, even then a little shabby-looking, but he had the same air of delighted surprise at finding himself liked and included or was it simply because Harry knew how it had been, that he saw these things in the picture? He tried to take it from the wall; it was his now, after all, Sirius had left him everything, but it would not budge. Sirius had taken no chances in preventing his parents from redecorating his room.
哈利的心欢跳起来，他认出了自己的父亲，不服帖的黑发像哈利的一样在脑后支棱着，而且也戴着眼镜。他旁边是小天狼星，英俊而洒脱不羁，稍带高傲的面庞比哈利见过的任何时候都更加年轻快乐。小天狼星的右边是小矮星，比他矮一个头还多，胖乎乎的，眼睛湿润，为自己能加入这最酷的一群，与詹姆和小天狼星这样的受人钦佩的叛逆者结交而兴奋不已。詹姆的左边是卢平，甚至那时候也显得有一点邋遢，但他也带着那种惊讶而快乐的神情，发现自己被喜欢，被接纳……是否只是因为哈利知道了内情，才会在照片中看出这些东西？他想把它从墙上摘下来，反正这照片是他的了——小天狼星把一切都留给了他。可是他拿不下来，小天狼星为了不让自己的父母改变这间屋子的装饰，真是不遗余力。


“The Death Eaters got through all those protective charms?” Harry asked, remembering how effective those had been on the night he had crashed in Tonks’s parents’ garden.
“What you’ve got to realize, Harry, is that the Death Eaters have got the full might of the Ministry on their side now,” saidLupin. “They’ve got the power to perform brutal spells without fear of identification or arrest. They managed to penetrate every defensive spell we’d cast against them, and once inside, they were completely open about why they’d come.”
“And are they bothering an excuse for torturing Harry’s whereabouts out of people?” asked Hermione, an edge to her voice.
“Well,” said Lupin. He hesitated, then pulled out a folded copy of the Daily Prophet.
“Here,” he said, pushing it across the table to Harry, “you’ll know sooner or later anyway. That’s their pretext for going after you.”
Harry smoothed out the paper. A huge photograph of his own face filled the front page. He read the headline over it:
WANTED FOR QUESTIONING ABOUT
THE DEATH OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Ron and Hermione gave roars of outrage, but Harry said nothing.
He pushed the newspaper away; he did not want to read any more: He knew what it would say. Nobody but those who had been on top of the tower when Dumbledore died knew who had really killed him and, as Rita Skeeter had already told the wizarding world, Harry had been seen running from the place moments after Dumbledore had fallen.
“I’m sorry, Harry,” Lupin said.
“So Death Eaters have taken over the Daily Prophet too?” asked Hermione furiously.
Lupin nodded.
“But surely people realize what’s going on?”
“The coup has been smooth and virtually silent,” said Lupin.“The official version of Scrimgeour’s murder is that he resigned; he has been replaced by Pius Thicknesse, who is under the Imperius Curse.”
“食死徒突破了所有那些防护咒？”哈利问道，想起他坠落在唐克斯父母家花园的那天夜里，它们曾是多么有效。
“你必须明白，哈利，食死徒现在有整个魔法部撑腰了，”卢平说，“他们可以使用残酷的魔法，而不用担心被发现和逮捕。他们突破我们施的所有防护咒，进来之后，也毫不掩饰他们的来意。”
“他们为酷刑拷问哈利的下落找了什么借口吗？”赫敏问，声音有些尖锐。
“嗯，”卢平犹豫了一下，掏出了一张折叠的《预言家日报》。
“看看吧，”他说着，把报纸从桌面推给哈利，“反正你迟早会知道的。这就是他们搜捕你的借口。”
哈利展开报纸，一张他的大照片占满了头版的篇幅。几个大字突出在照片上：
通缉追查阿不思。邓布利多死因
罗恩和赫敏气愤地叫了起来，但哈利没说话。他把报纸推到一边，不想再看。他知道里面会怎么说。除了当时在塔顶的人之外，没有人知道是谁杀死了邓布利多，而且丽塔。斯基特已经告诉魔法界，邓布利多坠楼后不久，便有人看到哈利逃离了现场。
“对不起，哈利。”卢平说。
“这么说，食死徒也控制了《预言家日报》？”赫敏愤怒地问。
卢平点点头。
“可是人们一定知道是怎么回事吧？”
“政变很平稳，几乎无声无息，”卢平说，“斯克林杰遇害的官方不说法是他辞职了，接替他的是皮尔斯。辛克尼斯，被施了迷魂咒。

“Why didn’t Voldemort declare himself Minister of Magic?” asked Ron.
Lupin laughed.
“He doesn’t need to, Ron. Effectively he is the Minister, but why should he sit behind a desk at the Ministry? His puppet, Thicknesse, is taking care of everyday business, leaving Voldemort free to extend his power beyond the ministry.
“Naturally many people have deduced what has happened: There has been such a dramatic change in Ministry policy in the last few days, and many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is not the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.”
“And this dramatic change in Ministry policy,” said Harry, “involves warning the Wizarding world against me instead of Voldemort?”
“That’s certainly part of it,” said Lupin, “and it is a masterstroke. Now that Dumbledore is dead, you—the Boy Who Lived— were sure to be the symbol and rallying point for any resistance to Voldemort. But by suggesting that you had a hand in the old hero’s death, Voldemort has not only set a price upon your head, but sown doubt and fear amongst many who would have defended
you.
“Meanwhile, the Ministry has started moving against Muggleborns.” Lupin pointed at the Daily Prophet.
“Look at page two.”
Hermione turned the pages with much the same expression of distaste she had worn when handling Secrets of the Darkest Art.
“‘Muggle-born Register,’” she read aloud, “‘The Ministry of Magic is undertaking a survey of so-called “Muggle-borns,” the better to understand how they came to possess magical secrets.
“‘Recent research undertaken by the Department of Mysteries reveals that magic can only be passed from person to person when Wizards reproduce. Where no proven Wizarding ancestry exists, therefore, the so-called Muggle-born is likely to have obtained magical power by theft or force.
“‘The Ministry is determined to root out such usurpers of magical power, and to this end has issued an invitation to every so-called Muggle-born to present themselves for interview by the newly appointed Muggle-born Registration Commission.’”
“People won’t let this happen,” said Ron.
“It is happening, Ron,’; said Lupin. “Muggle-borns are being rounded up as we speak.”
“伏地魔为什么不自封为魔法部长呢？”罗恩问道。
卢平笑了。
“他用不着，罗恩。他实际上就是部长，何必要坐在部里的办公桌后面呢？他的傀儡辛克尼斯处理日常事务，让伏地魔得以把势力延伸到魔法部之外。”
“许多人自然推测到发生的事情：几天来魔法部的政策变化太大了，他们私下里说一定是伏地魔在幕后指使。但问题就在这里，他们只是私下里说，不敢互相交心，不知道谁可以相信。他们不敢畅所欲言，怕万一怀疑的情况属实，家人会受到迫害。伏地魔这一着棋非常聪明。宣布篡位也许会引来公开的反抗，躲在幕后却能造成迷惑、猜疑和恐惧。”
“魔法部政策的显著变化，”哈利说，“也包括让魔法世界警惕我而不是伏地魔吗？”
“这确实是其中的一部分，”卢平说，“这是一手绝招。邓布利多死后，你——大难不死的男孩——必然会成为反抗伏地魔的象征和号召。而通过暗示你与老英雄之死有干系，伏地魔不仅可以悬赏缉拿你，而且在许多本来可能维护你的人中间撒下了怀疑和恐惧的种子。”
“与此同时，魔法部开始排查麻瓜的后代。”
卢平指着《预言家日报》。
“看第2版。”
赫敏翻开报纸，脸上带着看《尖端黑魔法揭秘》时一样厌恶的表情。
“‘麻瓜出身登记，’”她念道，“‘魔法部正在对所谓”麻瓜出身“进行调查，以便了解他们是如何拥有魔法秘密的。’”
“‘神秘事务司最新研究显示，魔法只能通过巫师的生育遗传。由此可见，如果没有验证确凿的巫师血统，所谓麻瓜出身的人就可能是通过盗窃或暴力而获取魔法能力的。’”
“‘魔法部决心根除这些盗用魔法能力者，为此邀请每一位所谓麻瓜出身的人到新任命的麻瓜出身登记委员会面谈。’”
“人们不会允许这种事发生的。”罗恩说。
“它已经发生了，罗恩，”卢平说，“在我们说话的时候，就已经有麻瓜出身的人被抓了。”

Harry looked into the prematurely lined face, framed in thick but graying hair, and wished that he could return a different answer.
“I can’t, Remus, I’m sorry. If Dumbledore didn’t tell you I don’t think I can.”
“I thought you’d say that,” said Lupin, looking disappointed.
“But I ought still be of some use to you. You know what I am and what I can do. I could come with you to provide protection. There would be no need to tell me exactly what you were up to.”
Harry hesitated. It was a very tempting offer, though how they would be able to keep their mission secret from Lupin if he were with them all the time he could not imagine.
Hermione, however, looked puzzled.
“But what about Tonks?” she asked.
“What about her?” said Lupin.
“Well,” said Hermione, frowning, “you’re married: How does she feel about you going away with us?”
“Tonks will be perfectly safe.” said Lupin. “She’ll be at her parents’ house.”
There was something strange in Lupin’s tone; it was almost cold. There was also something odd in the idea of Tonks remaining hidden at her parents house; she was, after all, a member of theOrder and, as far as Harry knew, was likely to want to be in the thick of the action.
“Remus,” said Hermione tentatively, “is everything all right . . . you know . . . between you and—”
“Everything is fine, thank you,” said Lupin pointedly.
Hermione turned pink. There was another pause, an awkward and embarrassed one, and then Lupin said, with an air of forcing himself to admit something unpleasant. “Tonks is going to have a baby.”
哈利望着那张过早刻上皱纹的脸庞，浓密但已花白的头发，希望自己能有别的回答。
“我不能，莱姆斯，对不起。如果邓布利多没有告诉你，我想我也不能说。”
“我猜到你会这么说，”卢平显得有些失望，“但我仍然可以对你有些用处。你知道我的身份和能耐。我可以与你们同行，提供保护。不用对我说你们在干什么。”
哈利犹豫着，这是个非常诱人的提议，虽然他想象不出，如果卢平整天跟着他们，怎么还能对他保密下去。
赫敏却显得有些疑惑。
“唐克斯呢？”她问。
“她怎么啦？”卢平说。
“哎呀，”赫敏皱眉道，“你们结婚了！你要跟我们走，她怎么想呢？”
“唐克斯会很安全的，”卢平说，“住在她父母家。”
卢平的语气有一点怪，几乎有些冷淡。再说，唐克斯继续躲在她父母家里也有点不正常，她毕竟是凤凰社成员，据哈利所知，她可能希望投身于积极的行动中。
“莱姆斯，”赫敏试探地说，“一切都好吗……我是说……你和——”
“一切都好，谢谢你，”卢平刻板地说。
赫敏脸红了，又是一阵沉默，气氛拘束而尴尬，然后卢平像强迫自己承认一件不愉快的事情那样说道：“唐克斯怀孕了。”

For the first time in three days Harry had forgotten all aboutKreacher. His immediate thought was that Lupin had burst backinto the room, and for a split second, he did not take in the massof struggling limbs that had appeared out of thin air right besidehis chair.
三天来第一次，哈利把克利切忘得干干净净，他的第一个念头是卢平冲回来了。一瞬间，哈利搞不清椅子旁边这团扭打的胳膊和腿是怎么回事，他急忙站起身。


(三人组去魔法部前夜）
They did not get to bed until late that night, after spendinghours going over and over their plan until they could recite it, wordperfect, to each other. Harry, who was now sleeping in Sirius’sroom, lay in bed with his wandlight trained on the old photographof his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew, and muttered the planto himself for another ten minutes.
他们一遍遍地温习行动计划，最后背得一字不差，直到深夜才上床睡觉。哈利现在睡在小天狼星的房间，他躺在床上，魔杖的光指着他父亲、小天狼星、卢平和小矮星的那张旧照片，又叽里咕噜地把计划背了十分钟。

（刚拿完挂坠盒逃亡的时候。）
Harry’s scar was burning now. He thought that there wasso much they did not know: Lupin had been right about magicthey had never encountered or imagined.
哈利的伤疤现在火烧火燎地痛。他想到还有那么多他们不知道的事，卢平说得对，那么多从没见过的和想象不到的魔法。


“啊，上帝保佑他们。”泰德说，“这帮孩子是怎么想的，以为他们能用这把宝剑去对付神秘人？或对付斯内普本人？”
“哦，不管他们想用它干什么，斯内普断定这把剑放在那里不安全了。”德克说，“几天之后，我想是得到了神秘人的许可，他把它运到伦敦存在了古灵阁。”
两个妖精又大笑起来。
“我还是看不出有什么好笑的。”泰德说。
“那是赝品。”拉环刺耳地说。
“格兰芬多的宝剑！”
“哦，是的，它是仿制品——仿制得非常好，这点不假——但它是巫师造的。真品是许多世纪以前由妖精铸造的，有一些只有妖精造的武器才具备的特性。无论真正的格兰芬多宝剑在哪儿，反正不在古灵阁银行的金库里。”
“我明白了，”泰德说，“我想你没有去把这告诉食死徒吧？”
“我认为没有必要用这个消息去困扰他们。”拉环洋洋自得地说。现在泰德和迪安也跟着戈努克和德克大笑起来。
帐篷里，哈利闭起眼睛，希望有人问起他想知道的问题。过了一分钟，他感觉像过了十分钟，迪安满足了他的愿望。他（哈利猛然想起）以前也是金妮的男友。
“金妮和其他人怎么样了？那帮偷剑的学生？”
“哦，他们受到了惩罚，残酷的惩罚。”拉环冷淡地说。
“他们没事吧？”泰德马上问，“我想，韦斯莱家可不能再有孩子受伤了，是不是？”
“据我所知，他们没有受什么重伤。”拉环说。
“真幸运。”泰德说，“以斯内普的一贯作风，我认为那帮孩子能活下来就不错了。”
“那么你也相信那个说法了，泰德？”德克问，“你相信是斯内普杀死了邓布利多？”
“我当然相信，”泰德说，“你不会坐在那儿告诉我，你认为波特与这事儿有关系吧？” “这些日子很难知道该相信什么。”德克咕哝道。
“我认识哈利。波特，”迪安说，“我认为他是真正的——救世之星，或随便你想用什么词。”
“是啊，很多人都愿意相信他是，孩子。”德克说，“包括我在内。可是他在哪儿呢？看样子是跑了。照理说，如果他知道一些我们不知道的事情，或者有什么特殊的能耐，现在就会挺身而出，率领大家反抗，而不是销声匿迹。你知道，《预言家日报》对他的一些揭露挺有道理——”“《预言家日报》？”泰德嗤之以鼻，“如果你还在读那种垃圾，被欺骗也是活该，德克。你要想知道事实，去看《唱唱反调》吧。”
突然爆发出一阵咳嗽声和吐东西的声音，还有重重的拍击声，听起来好像德克吞下了一根鱼刺。最后他呛着说：“《唱唱反调》？谢诺。洛夫古德的那份疯话连篇的破小报？”
“现在不那么疯话连篇了。”泰德说，“你应该看一看。谢诺在发表《预言家日报》忽略的一切，上一期中一点也没提到弯角鼾兽。注意，他们能容忍他多久，我不知道。但是谢诺在每期的头版上说，反对神秘人的巫师都应该把帮助哈利。波特摆在第一位。”
“要帮助一个从地球上消失的男孩，难哪。”德克说。
“听我说，他们迄今为止还没有抓到他，这本身就是了不起的成绩。”泰德说，“我倒很乐意听听他的提议。这正是我们努力在做的——保持自由，不是吗？”
“是啊，嗯，你这话倒是有道理，”德克迟缓地说，“整个魔法部和他们的眼线都在寻找他，我以为他已经被抓到了呢。不过，谁知道他们会不会已经逮捕、杀害了他，只是秘而不宣呢？”
“啊，别那么说，德克。”泰德喃喃道。


（在圣诞节被蛇袭击之后）
“卢平说过会有我们想象不到的魔法，”哈利说，“刚才巴希达不想在你面前说话，因为它是蛇佬腔，都是蛇佬腔，我没有意识到。但是当然啦，我听得懂。我们一到楼上那个房间，那条蛇就给神秘人报了信，我在脑子里听到的，我感到他兴奋起来，他说要把我看在那儿……然后……”
“Lupin said there would be magic we’d never imagined,”Harry said, “She didn’t want to talk in front of you, because it wasParseltongue, all Parseltongue, and I didn’t realize, but of course Icould understand her. One we were up in the room, the snake senta message to You-Know-Who. I heard it happen inside my head,I felt him get excited, he said to keep me there . . . and then. . . .”

（三人组拿到格兰芬多的剑之后）
“Dumbledore’s dead,” he said. “I saw it happen, I saw thebody. He’s definitely gone. Anyway, his Patronus was a phoenix,not a doe.”
“Patronuses can change, though, can’t they?” said Ron.“Tonks’s changed, didn’t it?”
“Yeah, but if Dumbledore was alive, why wouldn’t he showhimself? Why wouldn’t he just hand us the sword?”
“邓布利多死了，”他说，“我亲眼看到的。我看到了尸体。他肯定是走了。再说，他的守护神是凤凰，不是鹿。”
“可守护神会变的，不是吗？”罗恩说，“唐克斯的就变了，不是吗？”
“是，但如果邓布利多复活了，他为什么不现身呢？为什么不直接把宝剑交给我们呢？”