CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

1

Dobby’s?

Reward

reward /r??w??d/ n.?報答

2

For a moment, there was silence as Harry, Ron, Ginny and Lockhart stood in the doorway, covered in?

muck

?and slime and (in Harry’s case) blood. Then there was a scream.

muck /m?k/ n.?淤泥

3

‘Ginny!’

4

It was Mrs Weasley, who had been sitting crying in front of the?

fire

. She leapt to her feet, closely followed by Mr Weasley, and both of them flung themselves on their daughter.

fire /?fa??(r)/ n.?爐火

5

Harry, however, was looking past them. Professor Dumbledore was standing by the mantelpiece, beaming, next to Professor McGonagall, who was taking great,?

steadying

?

gasps

, clutching her chest.

steady /?stedi/ adj.?平穩(wěn)的

gasp /ɡɑ?sp/ n.?喘氣

6

Fawkes went whooshing past Harry’s ear and settled on Dumbledore’s shoulder, just as Harry found himself and Ron being swept into Mrs Weasley’s tight?

embrace

.

embrace /?m?bre?s/ n.?擁抱

7

‘You saved her! You saved her! How did you do it?’

8

‘I think we’d all like to know that,’ said Professor McGonagall weakly.

9

Mrs Weasley let go of Harry, who?

hesitated

?for a moment, then walked over to the desk and laid upon it the Sorting Hat, the?

ruby

-

encrusted

?sword and what remained of Riddle’s diary.

hesitate /?hez?te?t/ vi.?猶豫

ruby /'ru?b?/ n.?紅寶石

encrust /?n'kr?st/ vt.?裝飾外層

10

Then he started telling them everything. For nearly a?

quarter

?of an hour he spoke into the?

rapt

?silence:

quarter /?kw??t?(r)/ n.?四分之一

rapt /r?pt/ adj.?全神貫注的

11

he told them about hearing the?

disembodied

?voice, how Hermione had finally realised that he was hearing a?

Basilisk

in the pipes;

disembodied /?d?s?m?b?did/ adj.?不具形體的

basilisk /'b?z?l?sk/ n.?蛇怪

12

how he and Ron had followed the spiders into the Forest, that Aragog had told them where the?

last

?

victim

?of the Basilisk had died;

last /lɑ?st/ adj.?上一個的

victim /?v?kt?m/ n.?犧牲者

13

how he had guessed that Moaning Myrtle had been the victim, and that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets might be in her bathroom …

14

‘Very well,’ Professor McGonagall?

prompted

?him, as he paused,

prompt /pr?mpt/ v.?鼓勵

15

‘so you found out where the entrance was – breaking a hundred school rules into pieces along the way, I might add – but how on earth did you all get out of there alive, Potter?’

16

So Harry, his voice now growing hoarse from all this talking, told them about Fawkes’s?

timely

?arrival and about the Sorting Hat giving him the sword.

timely /?ta?mli/ adv.?及時地

17

But then he faltered. He had?

so far

?avoided mentioning Riddle’s diary – or Ginny.

so far?到目前為止

18

She was standing with her head against Mrs Weasley’s shoulder, and tears were still?

coursing

?silently down her cheeks.

course /k??s/ v.?奔流

19

What if they expelled her? Harry thought in?

panic

. Riddle’s diary didn’t work any more … How could they prove it had been he who’d made her do it all?

panic /?p?n?k/ n.?恐慌

20

Instinctively

, Harry looked at Dumbledore, who smiled faintly, the?

firelight

?glancing off his half-moon spectacles.

instinctively /in'sti?ktivli/ adv. (出于)本能地

firelight /'fa??la?t/ n. (爐)火光

21

‘What interests me most,’ said Dumbledore gently, ‘is how Lord Voldemort managed to?

enchant

?Ginny, when my sources tell me he is currently in hiding in the forests of Albania.’

enchant /?n?t?ɑ?nt/ vt.?使迷惑

22

Relief – warm,?

sweeping

,?

glorious

?relief –?

swept

?over Harry.

sweeping /'swi?p??/ adj.?徹底的

glorious /?ɡl??ri?s/ adj.?極其愉快的

sweep /swi?p/ v. (感受或情感)突然襲來

23

‘W-what’s that?’ said Mr Weasley in a stunned voice. ‘You Know Who? En-enchant Ginny? But Ginny’s not … Ginny hasn’t been … has she?’

24

‘It was this diary,’ said Harry quickly, picking it up and showing it to Dumbledore. ‘Riddle wrote it when he was sixteen.’

25

Dumbledore took the diary from Harry and peered?

keenly

?down his long, crooked nose at its?

burnt

?and?

soggy

?pages.

keenly /'ki:nli/ adv.?敏銳地

burnt /b??nt/ adj.?燒壞的

soggy /?s?ɡi/ adj.?透濕的

26

‘Brilliant,’ he said softly. ‘Of course, he was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen.’ He turned around to the Weasleys, who were looking?

utterly

?

bewildered

.

utterly /??t?li/ adv.?完全地

bewilder /b??w?ld?(r)/ vt.?使迷惑

27

‘Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts.

28

He disappeared after leaving the school … travelled far and wide … sank so deeply into the Dark Arts,?

consorted

with the very worst of our kind,?

underwent

?so many dangerous, magical?

transformations

,

consort /?k?ns??t/ vi.?結(jié)交

undergo /??nd??ɡ??/ vt.?經(jīng)歷

transformation /?tr?nsf??me??n/ n.?變化

29

that when he?

resurfaced

?as Lord Voldemort, he was barely?

recognisable

.

resurface /ri?'s??f?s/ vi.?重新露面

recognisable adj.?可辨認的

30

Hardly anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the clever, handsome boy who was once Head Boy here.’

31

‘But Ginny,’ said Mrs Weasley, ‘what’s our Ginny got to do with – with – him?’

32

‘His d-diary!’ Ginny sobbed. ‘I’ve b-been writing in it, and he’s been w-writing back all year –’

33

‘Ginny!’ said Mr Weasley,?

flabbergasted

.

flabbergast /'fl?b?gɑ?st/ vt.?使目瞪口呆

34

‘Haven’t I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it?

keeps

?its brain.

keep /ki?p/ v.?存放

35

Why didn’t you show the diary to me, or your mother? A?

suspicious

?object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic!’

suspicious /s??sp???s/ adj.?可疑的

36

‘I d-didn’t know,’ sobbed Ginny. ‘I found it inside one of the books Mum got me. I th-thought someone had just left it in there and forgotten about it …’

37

‘Miss Weasley should go up to the hospital wing straight away,’ Dumbledore interrupted in a firm voice.

38

‘This has been a terrible?

ordeal

?for her. There will be no punishment. Older and?

wiser

?wizards than she have been?

hoodwinked

?by Lord Voldemort.’ He strode over to the door and opened it.

ordeal /???di?l/ n.?痛苦的經(jīng)驗

wiser /'waiz?/ adj.?聰明的

hoodwink /?h?dw??k/ vt.?蒙蔽

39

‘

Bed rest

?and perhaps a large, steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up,’ he added,?

twinklingkindly

?down at her.

bed rest n. (病人的)臥床休息

twinkle /'tw??k(?)l/ v.?（眼睛因高興而）發(fā)亮

kindly /'ka?ndl?/ adv.?仁慈地

40

‘You will find that Madam Pomfrey is still awake. She’s just giving out Mandrake juice – I dare say the basilisk’s victims will be waking up any moment.’

41

‘So Hermione’s OK!’ said Ron?

brightly

.

brightly /'braitli/ adv.?笑容滿面地

42

‘There has been no?

lasting

?harm done,’ said Dumbledore.

lasting /?lɑ?st??/ adj.?持久的

43

Mrs Weasley led Ginny out, and Mr Weasley followed, still looking deeply?

shaken

.

shake /?e?k/ v.?使震驚

44

‘You know, Minerva,’ Professor Dumbledore said?

thoughtfully

?to Professor McGonagall, ‘I think all this?

merits

?a good feast. Might I ask you to go and?

alert

?the kitchens?’

thoughtfully /'θ?:tf?l/ adv.?若有所思地

merit /?mer?t/ n.?功勛

alert /??l??t/ v.?提醒（某人）

45

‘Right,’ said Professor McGonagall?

crisply

, also moving to the door. ‘I’ll leave you to deal with Potter and Weasley, shall I?’

crisply /'krispli/ adv.?爽快地

46

‘Certainly,’ said Dumbledore.

47

She left, and Harry and Ron gazed uncertainly at Dumbledore. What exactly had Professor McGonagall meant, deal with them? Surely – surely – they weren’t about to be punished?

48

‘I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,’ said Dumbledore.

49

Ron opened his mouth in?

horror

.

horror /?h?r?(r)/ n.?驚恐

50

‘Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes?

eat our words

,’ Dumbledore went on, smiling.

eat one's words?收回說過的話

51

‘You will both receive Special Awards for Services to the School and – let me see – yes, I think two hundred points?

apiece

?for Gryffindor.’

apiece /?'pi?s/ adv.?每人

52

Ron went as brightly pink as Lockhart’s Valentine flowers and closed his mouth again.

53

‘But one of us seems to be keeping?

mightily

?quiet about his part in this dangerous adventure,’ Dumbledore added. ‘Why so?

modest

, Gilderoy?’

mightily /'maitili/ adv.?非常地

modest /?m?d?st/ adj.?謙虛的

54

Harry gave a?

start

. He had completely forgotten about Lockhart.

start /stɑ?t/ n.?突然一驚

55

He turned and saw that Lockhart was standing in a corner of the room, still wearing his?

vague

?smile. When Dumbledore?

addressed

?him, Lockhart looked over his shoulder to see who he was talking to.

vague /ve?ɡ/ adj.?茫然的

address /??dres/ v.?向…說話

56

‘Professor Dumbledore,’ Ron said quickly, ‘there was an accident down in the Chamber of Secrets. Professor Lockhart –’

57

‘Am I a Professor?’ said Lockhart in?

mild

?surprise. ‘Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?’

mild /ma?ld/ adj.?（感覺或表情）不強烈的

58

‘He tried to do a Memory Charm and the wand backfired,’ Ron explained quietly to Dumbledore.

59

‘Dear me,’ said Dumbledore, shaking his head, his long silver moustache quivering. ‘

Impaled

?upon your own sword, Gilderoy!’

impale /?m?pe?l/ vt. (被)刺中

60

‘Sword?’ said Lockhart dimly. ‘Haven’t got a sword. That boy has, though.’ He pointed at Harry. ‘He’ll?

lend

?you one.’

lend /lend/ vt. & vi.?把…借給

61

‘Would you mind taking Professor Lockhart up to the hospital wing, too?’ Dumbledore said to Ron. ‘I’d like a few more words with Harry …’

62

Lockhart?

ambled

?out. Ron cast a curious look back at Dumbledore and Harry as he closed the door.

amble /??mbl/ vi.?從容漫步

63

Dumbledore crossed to one of the chairs by the fire.

64

‘Sit down, Harry,’ he said, and Harry sat, feeling?

unaccountably

?nervous.

unaccountably /??n?'kaunt?bli/ adv.?不能說明地

65

‘First of all, Harry, I want to thank you,’ said Dumbledore, eyes twinkling again. ‘You must have shown me real?

loyalty

down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you.’

loyalty /?l???lti/ n.?忠誠

66

He?

stroked

?the phoenix, which had fluttered down onto his knee.?

stroke /str??k/ vt.?輕撫

67

Harry grinned?

awkwardly

?as Dumbledore watched him.

awkwardly /'?:kw?:dli/ adv.?笨拙地

68

‘And so you met Tom Riddle,’ said Dumbledore thoughtfully. ‘I imagine he was most interested in you …’

69

Suddenly, something that was?

nagging

?at Harry came?

tumbling

?out of his mouth.

nag /n?ɡ/ vi.?不斷地嘮叨

tumble /?t?mbl/ v.?（因興奮或傷心而）快速說

70

‘Professor Dumbledore … Riddle said I’m like him. Strange likenesses, he said …’

71

‘Did he, now?’ said Dumbledore, looking thoughtfully under his thick silver eyebrows at Harry. ‘And what do you think, Harry?’

72

‘I don’t think I’m like him!’ said Harry, more loudly than he’d?

intended

. ‘I mean, I’m – I’m in Gryffindor, I’m …’

intend /?n?tend/ vi.?有打算

73

But he fell silent, a lurking doubt?

resurfacing

?in his mind.

resurface /ri?'s??f?s/ vi.?重新升至表面

74

‘Professor,’ he started again after a moment, ‘the Sorting Hat told me I’d – I’d have done well in Slytherin. Everyone thought I was Slytherin’s heir for a while … because I can speak Parseltongue …’

75

‘You can speak Parseltongue, Harry,’ said Dumbledore calmly,

76

‘because Lord Voldemort – who is the last?

remaining

?

descendant

?of Salazar Slytherin – can speak Parseltongue.

remaining /r??me?n??/ adj.?剩下的

descendant /d??send?nt/ n.?后代

77

Unless I’m much mistaken, he?

transferred

?some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I’m sure …’

transfer /tr?ns?f??(r)/ vi.?轉(zhuǎn)移

78

‘Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?’ Harry said,?

thunderstruck

.

thunderstruck /'θ?nd?str?k/ adj.?大吃一驚的

79

‘It certainly seems so.’

80

‘So I should be in Slytherin,’ Harry said, looking desperately into Dumbledore’s face. ‘The Sorting Hat could see Slytherin’s power in me, and it –’

81

‘Put you in Gryffindor,’ said Dumbledore calmly.

82

‘Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin?

prized

?in his?

hand-picked

?students.

prize /pra?z/ v.?珍視

hand-picked adj.?精選的

83

His?

own

?very rare gift, Parseltongue …?

resourcefulness

?…?

determination

?… a certain?

disregard

?for rules,’

own /??n/ vt.?擁有

resourcefulness /ri's?:sf?lnis/ n.?足智多謀

determination /d??t??m??ne??n/ n.?決心

disregard /?d?sr??ɡɑ?d/ v.?忽視

84

he added, his moustache quivering again.

85

‘Yet the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why that was. Think.’

86

‘It only put me in Gryffindor,’ said Harry in a?

defeated

?voice, ‘because I asked not to go in Slytherin …’

defeated adj.?泄氣的

87

‘Exactly,’ said Dumbledore,?

beaming

?once more.

beam /bi?m/ vi.?面露喜色

88

‘Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.’ Harry sat motionless in his chair, stunned.

89

‘If you want proof, Harry, that you belong in Gryffindor, I suggest you look more closely at this.’

90

Dumbledore reached across to Professor McGonagall’s desk, picked up the blood-stained silver sword and handed it to Harry.

91

Dully

, Harry turned it over, the rubies blazing in the firelight. And then he saw the name?

engraved

?just below the?

hilt

.

dully /d?lli/ adv.?遲鈍地

engrave /?n?ɡre?v/ vt.?雕刻

hilt /h?lt/ n.?刀把

92

Godric Gryffindor.

93

‘Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the Hat, Harry,’ said Dumbledore simply.

94

For a minute, neither of them spoke. Then Dumbledore pulled open one of the drawers in Professor McGonagall’s desk, and took out a quill and a bottle of ink.

95

‘What you need, Harry, is some food and sleep. I suggest you go down to the feast, while I write to Azkaban – we need our gamekeeper back.?

96

And I must?

draft

?an?

advertisement

?for the Daily?

Prophet

, too,’

draft /drɑ?ft/ vt.?起草

advertisement /?d?v??t?sm?nt/ n.?廣告

prophet /?pr?f?t/ n.?預言家

97

he added thoughtfully.

98

‘We’ll be needing a new?

Defence Against

?the Dark Arts teacher.?

Dear me

, we do seem to?

run through

?them, don’t we?’

Defence Against?防御

dear me?哎呀

run through /?r?n?θru:/?揮霍

99

Harry got up and crossed to the door. He had just reached for the handle, however, when the door burst open so violently that it bounced back off the wall.

100

Lucius Malfoy stood there,?

fury

?in his face. And?

cowering

?under his arm,?

heavily

?wrapped in bandages, was Dobby.

fury /?fj??ri/ n.?狂怒

cower /?ka??(r)/ vi.?抖縮

heavily /'hev?l?/ adv.?讓人難受地

101

‘Good evening, Lucius,’ said Dumbledore pleasantly.

102

Mr Malfoy almost knocked Harry over as he?

swept

?into the room.?

sweep /swi?p/ v.?大模大樣地走

103

Dobby went?

scurrying

?in after him, crouching at the?

hem

?of his cloak, a look of?

abject

?terror on his face.

scurry /?sk?ri/ v.?碎步急跑

hem /hem/ n.?邊緣

abject /??bd?ekt/ adj.?絕望的

104

‘So!’ said Lucius Malfoy, his cold eyes fixed on Dumbledore. ‘You’ve come back. The governors?

suspended

?you, but you still?

saw fit to

?return to Hogwarts.’

suspend /s??spend/ vt.?使暫時停職（或停學等）

see fit to?覺得做…合適

105

‘Well,?

you see

, Lucius,’ said Dumbledore, smiling?

serenely

,

you see?你是知道的

serenely /s?'ri:nli/ adv.?沉著地

106

‘the other eleven governors contacted me today. It was something like being caught in a?

hailstorm

?of owls, to tell the truth.

hailstorm /'he?lst??m/ n.?雹暴

107

They’d heard that Arthur Weasley’s daughter had been killed and wanted me back here at once. They seemed to think I was the best man for the job after all.

108

Very strange tales they told me, too. Several of them seemed to think that you had?

threatened

?to?

curse

?their families if they didn’t agree to?

suspend

?me?

in the first place

.’

threaten /?θretn/ vt.?威脅

curse /k??s/ v.?詛咒

suspend /s??spend/ vt.?使暫時停職（或停學等）

in the first place?起初

109

Mr Malfoy went even paler than usual, but his eyes were still?

slits

?of fury.

slit /sl?t/ n.?狹縫

110

‘So – have you stopped the attacks yet?’ he sneered. ‘Have you caught the?

culprit

?’

culprit /?k?lpr?t/ n.?罪犯

111

‘We have,’ said Dumbledore, with a smile.

112

‘Well?’ said Mr Malfoy sharply. ‘Who is it?’

113

‘The same person as last time, Lucius,’ said Dumbledore. ‘But this time, Lord Voldemort was acting through somebody else. By?

means

?of this diary.’

means /mi?nz/ n.?手段

114

He held up the small black book with the large hole through the centre, watching Mr Malfoy closely. Harry, however, was watching Dobby.

115

The elf was doing something very odd. His great eyes fixed?

meaningfully

?on Harry, he kept pointing at the diary, then at Mr Malfoy, and then hitting himself hard on the head with his fist.

meaningful /?mi?n??fl/ adv.?意味深長地

116

‘I see …’ said Mr Malfoy slowly to Dumbledore.

117

‘A clever plan,’ said Dumbledore in a?

level

?voice, still staring Mr Malfoy straight in the eye.

level /?levl/ adj.?平靜的

118

‘Because if Harry here –’ Mr Malfoy?

shot

?Harry a?

swift

, sharp look,?

shoot /?u?t/ vt.?將(目光、問題或話語)轉(zhuǎn)向

swift /sw?ft/ adj.?敏捷的

119

‘a(chǎn)nd his friend Ron hadn’t discovered this book,?

why

?– Ginny Weasley might have taken all the?

blame

. No one would ever have been able to prove she hadn’t acted of her own free?

will

?…’

why /wa?/ int.?哎呀

blame /ble?m/ n.?責任

will /w?l/ n.?意志

120

Mr Malfoy said nothing. His face was suddenly?

mask

-like.

mask /mɑ?sk/ n.?面具

121

‘And imagine,’ Dumbledore went on,

122

‘what might have happened then … The Weasleys are one of our most?

prominent

?pure-blood families.

prominent /?pr?m?n?nt/ adj.?著名的

123

Imagine the effect on Arthur Weasley and his Muggle Protection?

Act

, if his own daughter was discovered attacking and killing Muggle-borns.

act /?kt/ n.?法令

124

Very fortunate the diary was discovered, and Riddle’s memories?

wiped

?from it. Who knows what the consequences might have been?

otherwise

?…’

wipe /wa?p/ v.?消除

otherwise /??e?wa?z/ adv.?否則

125

Mr Malfoy forced himself to speak.

126

‘Very?

fortunate

,’ he said stiffly.

fortunate /?f??t??n?t/ adj.?幸運的

127

And still, behind his back, Dobby was pointing, first to the diary, then to Lucius Malfoy, then?

punching

?himself in the head.

punch /p?nt?/ vt.?用拳猛擊

128

And Harry suddenly understood. He nodded at Dobby, and Dobby backed into a corner, now?

twisting

?his ears in punishment.

twist /tw?st/ vt.?擰

129

‘Don’t you want to know how Ginny?

got hold of

?that diary, Mr Malfoy?’ said Harry.

got hold of?占有

130

Lucius Malfoy rounded on him.

131

‘How should I know how the stupid little girl got hold of it?’ he said.

132

‘Because you gave it to her,’ said Harry. ‘In Flourish and Blotts. You picked up her old?

Transfiguration

?book, and?

slipped

?the diary inside it, didn’t you?’

transfiguration /?tr?nsf?g?'re??(?)n/ n.?變形

slip /sl?p/ v.?偷偷塞

133

He saw Mr Malfoy’s white hands clench and unclench.

134

‘Prove it,’ he hissed.

135

‘Oh, no one will be able to do that,’ said Dumbledore, smiling at Harry.

136

‘Not now Riddle has vanished from the book. On the other hand, I would advise you, Lucius, not to go giving out any more of Lord Voldemort’s old school things.

137

If any more of them find their way into?

innocent

?hands, I think Arthur Weasley,?

for one

, will make sure they are traced back to you …’

innocent /??n?snt/ adj.?無辜的

for one?作為其中一個

138

Lucius Malfoy stood for a moment, and Harry?

distinctly

?saw his right hand twitch as though he was?

longing

?to reach for his wand. Instead, he turned to his house-elf.

distinctly /dis'ti?ktli/ adv.?清楚地

long /l??/ vi.?渴望

139

‘We’re going, Dobby!’

140

He wrenched open the door, and as the elf came hurrying up to him, he kicked him right through it. They could hear Dobby?

squealing

?with pain all the way along the corridor.

squeal /skwi?l/ vi.?尖聲地說

141

Harry stood for a moment, thinking hard. Then it came to him.

142

‘Professor Dumbledore,’ he said hurriedly, ‘can I give that diary back to Mr Malfoy, please?’

143

‘Certainly, Harry,’ said Dumbledore calmly. ‘But hurry. The feast, remember.’

144

Harry grabbed the diary and dashed out of the office. He could hear Dobby’s squeals of pain?

receding

?around the corner.

recede /r??si?d/ vi.?減弱

145

Quickly, wondering if this plan could possibly work, Harry took off one of his shoes, pulled off his slimy,?

filthy

?sock, and stuffed the diary into it. Then he ran down the dark corridor.

filthy /'f?lθ?/ adj.?骯臟的

146

He caught up with them at the top of the stairs.

147

‘Mr Malfoy,’ he gasped,?

skidding

?to a halt, ‘I’ve got something for you.’

skid /sk?d/ vi.?打滑

148

And he forced the?

smelly

?sock into Lucius Malfoy’s hand.

smelly /'smel?/ adj.?有臭味的

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‘What the –?’

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Mr Malfoy ripped the sock off the diary, threw it aside, then looked furiously from the?

ruined

?book to Harry.

ruined /'ru?nd/ adj.?毀壞的

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‘You’ll meet the same?

sticky

?end as your parents one of these days, Harry Potter,’ he said softly. ‘They were?

meddlesome

?fools, too.’

sticky /?st?ki/ adj. (處境、問題等)難辦的

meddlesome /'med(?)ls(?)m/ adj.?愛管閑事的

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He turned to go.

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‘Come, Dobby. I said, Come!’

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But Dobby didn’t move. He was holding up Harry’s?

disgusting

, slimy sock, and looking at it as though it were a?

priceless

?

treasure

.

disgusting /d?s?ɡ?st??/ adj.?令人作嘔的

priceless /?pra?sl?s/ adj.?無價的

treasure /'tre??/ n.?珍寶

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‘Master has given Dobby a sock,’ said the elf in?

wonderment

. ‘Master gave it to Dobby.’

wonderment /'w?nd?m(?)nt/ n.?驚奇

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‘What’s that?’ spat Mr Malfoy. ‘What did you say?’

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‘Dobby has got a sock,’ said Dobby in disbelief. ‘Master threw it, and Dobby caught it, and Dobby – Dobby is free.’

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Lucius Malfoy stood frozen, staring at the elf. Then he?

lunged

?at Harry.

lunge /l?nd?/ v.?猛撲

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‘You’ve lost me my servant, boy!’

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But Dobby shouted, ‘You shall not harm Harry Potter!’

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There was a loud bang, and Mr Malfoy was thrown backwards. He crashed down the stairs, three at a time, landing in a?

crumpled

?

heap

?on the landing below.

crumpled /'kr?mpld/ adj.?弄皺的

heap /hi?p/ n.?（l凌亂的)一堆

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He got up, his face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long?

threatening

?finger.

threatening /?θretn??/ adj.?威脅（性）的

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‘You shall go now,’ he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr Malfoy. ‘You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.’

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Lucius Malfoy had no choice. With a last,?

incensed

?stare at the pair of them, he?

swung

?his cloak around him and hurried out of sight.

incensed /in'senst/ adj.?憤怒的

swing /sw??/ v.?做弧線運動

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‘Harry Potter freed Dobby!’ said the elf shrilly, gazing up at Harry, moonlight from the nearest window reflected in his

orb

-like eyes. ‘Harry Potter set Dobby free!’

orb /??b/ n.?球

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‘Least I could do, Dobby,’ said Harry, grinning. ‘Just promise never to try and save my life again.’

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The elf’s ugly brown face split suddenly into a wide,?

toothy

?smile.

toothy /'tu?θ?/ adj.?露出牙齒的

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‘I’ve just got one question, Dobby,’ said Harry, as Dobby pulled on Harry’s sock with shaking hands. ‘You told me all this had nothing to do with He Who Must Not Be Named, remember? Well –’

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‘It was a?

clue

, sir,’ said Dobby, his eyes widening, as though this was obvious. ‘Dobby was giving you a clue. The Dark Lord, before he changed his name, could be freely named, you see?’

clue /klu?/ n.?提示

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‘Right,’ said Harry weakly. ‘Well, I’d better go. There’s a feast, and my friend Hermione should be awake by now …’

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Dobby threw his arms around Harry’s middle and hugged him.

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‘Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby knew!’ he sobbed. ‘

Farewell

, Harry Potter!’

farewell /?fe??wel/ n.?告別

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And with a final loud?

crack

, Dobby disappeared.

crack /kr?k/ n.?噼啪聲

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Harry had been to several Hogwarts feasts, but never one quite like this. Everybody was in their pyjamas, and the celebrations?

lasted

?all night.

last /lɑ?st/ v.?持續(xù)

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Harry didn’t know whether the best?

bit

?was Hermione running towards him, screaming, ‘You solved it! You solved it!’

bit /b?t/ n.?片段

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or Justin hurrying over from the Hufflepuff table to?

wring

?his hand and apologise endlessly for suspecting him,

wring /r??/ vt.?握緊(尤指別人的手)

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or Hagrid turning up at half past three,?

cuffing

?Harry and Ron so hard on the shoulders that they were knocked into their plates of?

trifle

,

cuff /k?f/ vt.?拳打

trifle /?tra?fl/ n.?蛋糕

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or his and Ron’s four hundred points?

securing

?Gryffindor the House Cup for the second year?

running

,

secure /s??kj??(r)/ v.?（尤指經(jīng)過努力）獲得

running /?r?n??/ adj.?連續(xù)的

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or Professor McGonagall standing up to tell them all that the exams had been cancelled as a school?

treat

?(‘Oh, no!’ said Hermione),

treat /tri?t/ n.?款待

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or Dumbledore announcing that, unfortunately, Professor Lockhart would be unable to return next year, owing to the fact that he needed to go away and get his memory back.

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Quite a few of the teachers joined in the cheering that greeted this news.

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‘Shame,’ said Ron, helping himself to a jam?

doughnut

. ‘He was starting to?

grow on

?me.’

doughnut /'d??n?t/ n.?油炸圈餅

grow on?越來越被...喜愛

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The rest of the summer term passed in a?

haze

?of blazing sunshine. Hogwarts was back to normal, with only a few, small differences:

haze /he?z/ n.?薄霧

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Defence Against the Dark Arts classes were cancelled (‘but we’ve had plenty of practice at that anyway,’ Ron told a?

disgruntled

?Hermione)?

disgruntled /d?s?ɡr?ntld/ adj.?不滿的

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and Lucius Malfoy had been?

sacked

?

as

?a school governor.

sack /s?k/ vt.?解雇

as /?z/ prep.?以…的身份

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Draco was no longer strutting around the school as though he owned the place. On the contrary, he looked?

resentful

and?

sulky

.

resentful /r??zentfl/ adj.?感到憤恨的

sulky /?s?lki/ adj.?生悶氣的

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On the other hand, Ginny Weasley was?

perfectly

?happy again.

perfectly /'p??f?k(t)l?/ adv.?完全地

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Too soon, it was time for the journey?

home

?on the Hogwarts Express.

home /h??m/ adv.?回家

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Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George and Ginny got a?

compartment

?to themselves. They made the most of the last few hours in which they were allowed to do magic before the holidays.

compartment /k?m?pɑ?tm?nt/ n. (列車車廂的)隔間

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They played Exploding Snap, set off the very last of Fred and George’s Filibuster Fireworks, and practised disarming each other by magic. Harry was getting very?

good at

?it.

good at?善于

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They were almost at King’s Cross when Harry remembered something.

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‘Ginny – what did you see Percy doing, that he didn’t want you to tell anyone?’

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‘Oh, that,’ said Ginny,?

giggling

. ‘Well – Percy’s got a girlfriend.’

giggle /?ɡ?ɡl/ vi.?咯咯地笑

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Fred dropped a stack of books on George’s head.

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‘What?’

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‘It’s that Ravenclaw Prefect, Penelope Clearwater,’ said Ginny.

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‘That’s who he was writing to all last summer. He’s been meeting her all over the school in secret.

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I?

walked in on

?them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was – you know – attacked.

walk in on?撞見

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You won’t tease him, will you?’

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she added anxiously.

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‘Wouldn’t?

dream

?of it,’ said Fred, who was looking as if his birthday had come early.

dream /dri?m/ vt.?料到

202

‘Definitely not,’ said George,?

sniggering

.

snigger /'sn?g?/ vi.?竊笑

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The Hogwarts Express slowed and finally stopped.

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Harry pulled out his quill and a bit of parchment and turned to Ron and Hermione.

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‘This is called a telephone number,’ he told Ron, scribbling it twice, tearing the parchment in two and handing it to them.

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‘I told your dad how to use a telephone last summer, he’ll know. Call me at the Dursleys, OK? I can’t stand another two months with only Dudley to talk to …’

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‘Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won’t they?’ said Hermione, as they got off the train and joined the crowd?

thronging

?towards the enchanted?

barrier

. ‘When they hear what you did this year?’

throng /θr??/ n.?人群

barrier /?b?ri?(r)/ n.?屏障

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‘Proud?’ said Harry. ‘Are you mad? All those times I could’ve died, and I didn’t manage it? They’ll be furious …’

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And together they walked back through the gateway to the Muggle world.

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The End

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