赫奇帕奇歡迎信

【中文】

恭喜你！我是級長加布里?！ざ鹏旈T，很高興能歡迎你來到赫奇帕奇學院。我們的院徽是獾，一種經常被低估的動物，因為它在受到攻擊之前一直都很平靜，但是一旦被激怒，它可以擊退比自身大許多的動物，包括狼。我們的學院顏色是黃色和黑色，我們的公共休息室在地下一層，和廚房在同一條走廊上。

現(xiàn)在，有幾件關于赫奇帕奇學院的事情你應該知道。首先，我們來解釋一下一個一直關于我們的傳言，說我們是最不聰明的學院。錯。赫奇帕奇是最不喜歡吹噓自己的學院，但是從我們這里走出過完全不少于其他學院的優(yōu)秀的女巫和男巫。想要證據(jù)嗎？你看格洛根·斯坦普，最受歡迎的魔法部部長之一。他是一個赫奇帕奇 - 還有愛特美茜婭·露芙金和杜格德·麥克費爾也是一樣。然后我們還有世界權威的魔法生物學家，紐特·斯卡曼德；布里奇特·溫洛克，十三世紀著名的算術占卜學家，她是第一個發(fā)現(xiàn)數(shù)字7的魔法屬性的人，還有伍德克夫特的漢吉斯，是他創(chuàng)立了純巫師村落霍格莫德，離霍格沃茨非常近。他們全都是赫奇帕奇。

所以，如你所見，從我們學院走出了這么多強大、杰出、勇敢的女巫和男巫們，但是，只是因為我們不對外宣揚，所以我們沒有得到應得的聲譽。

尤其是拉文克勞，他們認為任何一個取得杰出成就的人都是出自他們學院。我在三年級時曾因和一個拉文克勞的級長決斗惹上過一個大麻煩，因為他固執(zhí)地認為布里奇特·溫洛克來自他的學院，而不是我的。我本來應該關上一個星期的禁閉，但是斯普勞特教授在給了我一個警告之后就放我走了，還給了我一盒椰子冰淇淋。

赫奇帕奇都是值得信賴并忠實的。我們不會大放厥詞，但我們也不好惹；就像我們的院徽獾一樣，在所有敵人面前，我們會保護自己，朋友以及家人。沒有人能威脅我們。

但是，赫奇帕奇確實在某一方面有所欠缺。我們是這所學校里最少走出黑巫師的學院。當然，你知道斯萊特林會出現(xiàn)一些壞人，好像他們從未聽說過公平競爭，比起努力更喜歡作弊，但是甚至是格蘭芬多（與我們相處最好的學院）也出現(xiàn)過一些狡猾的人物。

還有什么是你需要知道的？哦，對了，公共休息室的入口隱藏在廚房那條走廊右手邊一個偏僻的角落的一堆大桶中。用“赫爾加·赫奇帕奇”的節(jié)奏敲擊第二排中間下數(shù)第二個大桶，然后蓋子就會旋轉打開。我們是霍格沃茨里唯一擁有抵御可能的入侵者的方法的學院。如果敲錯了蓋子，或者敲錯了節(jié)奏，非法入侵者會被倒一身的醋。

你會聽到其他學院炫耀他們的安保裝置，但是實際上一千多年以來，赫奇帕奇的公共休息室和宿舍從來沒被外人見到過。就像獾一樣，我們明確地知道如何隱藏 - 以及如何保護我們自己。

一旦你打開了大桶，爬進去沿著后面的通道走，然后你就會來到最溫暖舒適的公共休息室。它是一間圓形的屋子，充滿了泥土的氣息，天花板很低；這里一直充滿陽光，圓形的窗戶讓你能看到窗外搖曳的小草和蒲公英。

這里有許多磨得發(fā)亮的銅飾，還有許多植物，有的從天花板上垂落下來，有的則是在窗臺上。我們的院長，波莫娜·斯普勞特教授，負責教授草藥學，她帶來了最有趣的植物標本（有一些會跳舞和講話）來裝飾我們的房間—— 這也是赫奇帕奇經常很擅長草藥學的原因之一。我們厚重松軟的沙發(fā)和椅子被裝飾成黃色和黑色，我們的宿舍可以通過公共休息室墻上的圓形大門到達。黃銅燈會投射溫暖的燈光在我們的四柱大床上，所有的床上都鋪著拼色的被子，如果你的腳冷，墻上還掛著黃銅的暖床器。

我們的學院幽靈是所有人中最友善的：胖修士。你可以很容易地認出他；他有點微胖，穿著僧人的長袍，如果你迷了路或者陷入任何麻煩，他會對你很有幫助。

我覺得應該差不多了。我必須說，我希望你們中的一些人是好的魁地奇球手。最近的魁地奇比賽中，我覺得赫奇帕奇并沒有達到我想要的程度。

你們可以安心地睡覺。我們的宿舍將保護我們免收風暴的侵襲；住在塔里的學生有的夜晚會很難入睡，我們從來不會。

再說一次：恭喜你成為最友善最正直最頑強的學院的一員。

【英文】

Congratulations!I’m Prefect Gabriel Truman, and I’m delighted to welcome you to?HUFFLEPUFF HOUSE.?Our emblem is the badger,an animal that is often underestimated,because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked,can fight off animals much larger than itself, including wolves. Our house colours are yellow and black, and our common room lies one floor below the ground, on the same corridor as the kitchens.?

Now, there are a few things you should know about Hufflepuff house. First of all, let’s deal with a perennial myth about the place, which is that we’re the least clever house. WRONG.Hufflepuff is certainly the least boastful house, but we’ve produced just as many brilliant witches and wizards as any other. Want proof? Look up Grogan Stump, one of the most popular Ministers for Magic of all time. He was a Hufflepuff – as were the successful Ministers Artemesia Lufkin and Dugald McPhail. Then there’s the world authority on magical creatures,Newt Scamander; Bridget Wenlock, the famous thirteenth-century Arithmancer who first discovered the magical properties of the number seven, and Hengist of Woodcroft, who founded the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade, which lies very near Hogwarts School. Hufflepuffs all.

So, as you can see, we’ve produced more than our fair share of powerful, brilliant and daring witches and wizards, but, just because we don’t shout about it, we don’t get the credit we deserve.?

Ravenclaws, in particular, assume that any outstanding achiever must have come from their house. I got into big trouble during my third year for duelling a Ravenclaw prefect who insisted that Bridget Wenlock had come from his house, not mine. I should have got a week of detentions, but Professor Sprout let me off with a warning ?and a box of coconut ice.

Hufflepuffs are trustworthy and loyal. We don’t shoot our mouths off, but cross us at your peril; like our emblem, the badger, we will protect ourselves, our friends and our families against all-comers. Nobody intimidates us.?

However, it’s true that Hufflepuff is a bit lacking in one area. We’ve produced the fewest Dark wizards of any house in this school.?

Of course, you’d expect Slytherin to churn out evil-doers, seeing as they’ve never heard of fair play and prefer cheating over hard work any day, but even Gryffindor (the house we get on best with) has produced a few dodgy characters.?

What else do you need to know? Oh yes, the entrance to the common room is concealed in a stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor. Tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff’,and the lid will swing open. We are the only house at Hogwarts that also has a repelling device for would-be intruders. If the wrong lid is tapped, or if the rhythm of the tapping is wrong, the illegal entrant is doused in vinegar.?

You will hear other houses boast of their security arrangements, but it so happens that in more than a thousand years, the Hufflepuff common room and dormitories have never been seen by outsiders. Like badgers, we know exactly how to lie low – and how to defend ourselves.?

Once you’ve opened the barrel, crawl inside and along the passageway behind it, and you will emerge into the cosiest common room of them all. It is round and earthy and low-ceilinged; it always feels sunny, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions.?

There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills. Our Head of house, Professor Pomona Sprout, is Head of Herbology, and she brings the most interesting specimens (some of which dance and talk) to decorate our room – one reason why Hufflepuffs are often very good at Herbology. Our overstuffed sofas and chairs are upholstered in yellow and black, and our dormitories are reached through round doors in the walls of the common room. Copper lamps cast a warm light over our four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts,?and copper bed warmers hang on the walls, should you have cold feet.?

Our house ghost is the friendliest of them all: the Fat Friar. You’ll recognise him easily enough; he’s plump and wears monk’s robes, and he’s very helpful if you get lost or are in any kind of trouble.?

I think that’s nearly everything. I must say, I hope some of you are good Quidditch players.?Hufflepuff hasn’t done as well as I’d like in the Quidditch tournament lately.?

You should sleep comfortably. We’re protected from storms and wind down in our dormitories; we never have the disturbed nights those in the towers sometimes experience.?

And once again: congratulations on becoming a member of the friendliest, most decent and most tenacious house of them all.