原文欣赏“So that's where YouKnowWho — ?”
"这就是'那个人'留给你的标志了吧？"

“Yes,” said Harry, “but I can't remember it.”
"没错，但我已经忘记了……？"

“Nothing?” said Ron eagerly.
"什么都忘记了吗？"罗恩急切地问。

“Well — I remember a lot of green light, but nothing else.”
"嗯……我只记得见到几缕绿光，其他的就都忘了。"

“Wow,” said Ron. He sat and stared at Harry for a few moments, then, as though he had suddenly realized what he was doing, he looked quickly out of the window again.
"哗！"罗恩惊叹道。他坐着打量哈利好一会儿，忽然间，他似乎意识到了自己刚才在做什么，便又急忙转身望着窗外。

“Are all your family wizards?” asked Harry, who found Ron just as interesting as Ron found him.
"你们全家都是魔法师吗？"哈利充满好奇地问，因为他发现罗恩也同样有趣。

“Er — Yes, I think so,” said Ron. “I think Mom's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.”
"嗯，我想是吧。"罗恩说，"妈好像有个当会计的表哥，但他从来就不是我们谈论的话题。"

“So you must know loads of magic already.”
"那你们一定很了解魔法吧。"

The Weasleys were clearly one of those old wizarding families the pale boy in Diagon Alley had talked about.
威斯里家族明显是戴阿官道那个颜色苍白的孩子所说的那些魔法世家之一。

“I heard you went to live with Muggles,” said Ron. “What are they like?”
"我听说你曾和马格人一起住过，"罗恩说，"他们怎么样？"

“Horrible — well, not all of them. My aunt and uncle and cousin are, though. Wish I'd had three wizard brothers.”
"差劲极了。但也不是全都差劲喽。我姨妈、姨文还有表弟却挺讨厌的。真希望我也有三个懂魔法的兄弟啊。"

“Five,” said Ron. For some reason, he was looking gloomy. “I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left — Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand, and Percy's old rat.”
"我有五个，"不知为什么，罗恩看起来有些悲伤，"我是家里第六个到霍格瓦彻去的。你也许会说我有许多榜样和奋斗的目标，生活也有保障，比尔和查理都已经毕业了——比尔是班长，查理则是飞行队的队长。如今伯希也是个班长了，弗来德和乔治虽然喜欢胡闹，但他们成绩都很好，而且人人都觉得他们确实很有喜剧天分。每个人都期盼着我能做得和哥哥们一样好，即使我能做到，人们也觉得这是理所当然，因为我的哥哥们已经做到了。假如你有五个哥哥，你就不会得到新的玩意儿。比尔的旧袍子，查理的破魔棒和伯希的臭老鼠现在都变成我的了。"

Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat, which was asleep.
罗恩从夹克衣里掏出一只胖乎乎的，睡着了的灰鼠。

“His name's Scabbers and he's useless, he hardly ever wakes up. Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a prefect, but they couldn't aff — I mean, I got Scabbers instead.”
"它叫斯卡伯斯，一天到晚就是睡，真是个没用的废物。伯希因为当上了班长而从爸爸那儿得到一只猫头鹰作为奖励，我买不起……我是说我只有斯卡伯斯。"

Ron's ears went pink. He seemed to think he'd said too much, because he went back to staring out of the window.
罗恩耳尖发红，也许是因为觉得自己说多了，他又呆望着窗外。

Harry didn't think there was anything wrong with not being able to afford an owl. After all, he'd never had any money in his life until a month ago, and he told Ron so, all about having to wear Dudley's old clothes and never getting proper birthday presents. This seemed to cheer Ron up.
哈利觉得养不起猫头鹰也算不上是一种罪过。毕竟，一个月之前他仍是不名一文。他把过去那些诸如被迫要穿达德里的破衣服及从未收过一件像样的生日礼物这样的伤心往事都告诉了罗恩。这似乎让罗恩的心情好转了一些。

“… and until Hagrid told me, I didn't know anything about being a wizard or about my parents or Voldemort—”
"直到哈格力告诉我有关成为魔法师的事、我父母的情况以及福尔得摩特，我才知道这些。"

Ron gasped.
罗恩倒吸一口气。

“What?” said Harry.
"怎么了？"哈利问。

“You said YouKnowWho's name!” said Ron, sounding both shocked and impressed. “I'd have thought you, of all people—”
"你说出了'那个人'的名字！"罗恩又惊又喜，"我觉得你是所有人中最——"

“I'm not trying to be brave or anything, saying the name,” said Harry, “I just never knew you shouldn't. See what I mean? I've got loads to learn… I bet,” he added, voicing for the first time something that had been worrying him a lot lately, “I bet I'm the worst in the class.”
"说出他的名字并不是为了显示我很勇敢或者别的什么，"哈利说，"明白我的意思吗？我觉得自己还有很多东西要学。"话中略带忧虑，"我猜我可能会是班里成绩最差的。"

“You won't be. There's loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quick enough.”
"不会的，那儿有很多马格人，他们都很棒哟。"

重点讲解as though 用法总结

as though与 as if是一组同义词，两者意思相同，用法也相同，只是在口语中人们多半会用as if, 取其简短。

1．在通常情况下， as if 和as though 所引导的从句的谓语动词多用虚拟语气，表示所叙述的情况与事实相反。具体用法如下：

1) 谈论现在情形的，用过去时（动词be用were,也可用was）：

Why is she looking at me as though she knew me? 他为什么那样看我？像是认识我似的。
He behaves as if he owned the house. 他的样子好像他拥有这个房子。

2) 谈论过去情形的动词形式有以下几种：

a)过去式，表示过去的状态，如：

He looked at me as if I were mad. 他那样看我，好像我是个疯子。

但是，如果状态动词带有持续时间状语，则用过去完成时：

They talked as if they had been friends for years.

b)过去完成时，表示过去的动作先于主句动词而发生或完成，如：

It was as if he had lost his last friend.

必须注意的时，在指过去的动作时，即使主句是现在时，as if 从句中的动词也要用过去完成时：

You look as if you’d seen a ghost. 你好像是见了鬼似的。

c)过去进行时，表示动作正在进行：

He heard a noise, as if someone was breathing.（高一册，第211页）

d)过去将来时，表示将要发生的事态：

It looked as if it was going to snow.

2. 如果as if后面的从句所表示的情况时真实的或很可能时真实的，则动词可以用陈述语气，在feel, look, seem

smell, sound, taste之后尤其如此。试比较：F. T. Wood所著English Colloquial

Idioms中的两个例子：

He walks as if he is drunk.
He walks as if he were drunk.

第一句表示“他已经醉了”，第2句则表示“他没有醉”。又如：

It looks as if it is going to rain.
It looks as if were going to rain.

第一例意味着快要下雨了，第二例则意味着不会下雨。

3. 随着语言的发展，as if

后面的从句即使反映的不是事实，也可以不用虚拟语气而用陈述语气，这主要出现在口语或不太正式的文体中。例如：

With the development of these new tools, it is as if man has suddenly become a millionaire of the mind.
随着这些新工具的发展，人好像突然间成为精神上的百万富翁似的。