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"So all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone," Harry went on feverishly, "then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off... Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy."
“所以我现在只能等着斯内普去偷魔法石，”哈利极度兴奋地继续往下说，“然后伏地魔就上这儿来，把我干掉……好，我想这下子贝恩该高兴了。”

Hermione looked very frightened, but she had a word of comfort.
赫敏显得非常害怕，但她仍然想出话来安慰哈利。

"Harry, everyone says Dumbledore's the only one You-Know-Who was ever afraid of With Dumbledore around, You-Know-Who won't touch you. Anyway, who says the centaurs are right? It sounds like fortune-telling to me, and Professor McGonagall says that's a very imprecise branch of magic."
“哈利，大家都说，神秘人一直害怕的只有邓布利多。有邓布利多在这里，神秘人不会伤你一根毫毛的。而且，谁说马人的话就一定正确？我觉得那一套听上去像是算命，麦格教授说，那是一类很不精确的魔法。”

The sky had turned light before they stopped talking. They went to bed exhausted, their throats sore. But the night's surprises weren't over.
天色渐渐亮了，他们才停止了谈话，嗓子又干又痛，精疲力竭地上床睡觉。然而，这晚上还有一个意外在等着他呢。

When Harry pulled back his sheets, he found his invisibility cloak folded neatly underneath them. There was a note pinned to it:
哈利拉开床单时，发现他的隐形衣叠得整整齐齐的，放在床单下面。隐形衣上还别了一张纸条，写着：

Just in case.
以防万一。

重点讲解

重点讲解

fortune-telling
n. 算命，卜
I don't know about fortunes or fortune-telling.
我既不懂得命运也不懂得算命。

人物介绍

詹姆花了他学生生涯的一半时间去追莉莉·伊万斯——一个红发的格兰芬多女孩。每当莉莉在周围的时候，他不由自主变的很傻，这让莉莉十分讨厌他。但后来詹姆不“那么自大”了。莉莉后来无论是出于好感抑或寻求保护与安全，都与结为夫妻。

二年级时，詹姆、小天狼星和彼得发现了莱姆斯是个狼人。他们没有离弃他，而是花了三年时间学成了阿尼马格斯，这样他们就可以在月圆之夜莱姆斯变身之时陪伴他了。在第五年他们终于学成，詹姆变成了一只牡鹿，所以他得到了个绰号“尖头叉子”。

他们在学校的第五年，斯内普看到庞弗雷夫人带莱姆斯到打人柳那里变形。斯内普很好奇莱姆斯每个月到哪里，而小天狼星告诉只要戳一下打人柳下的节疤，他就可以跟着他们到尖叫棚屋。斯内普按照小天狼星说的做了，当他快到尖叫棚屋的时候，詹姆将他拉了回来。这很冒险——詹姆将斯内普从狼人的爪下救了出来（虽然很大一部分原因是害怕自己被开除）。这个行为使得两个男孩之间形成了一条纽带，也促使日后斯内普救了哈利的命，当然更多是因为莉莉。