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The resemblance of this action to the creation of a Horcrux has been noted by many writers.
許多作家都注意到這種行為跟制造魂器有類似之處。
Although Beedle's hero is not seeking to avoid death, he is dividing what was clearly not meant to be divided – body and heart, rather than soul – and in doing so, he is falling foul of the first of Adalbert Waffling's Fundamental Laws of Magic:
盡管彼豆的男主角并不追求逃避死亡，但是他分隔了顯然不應該分隔的東西——身體和心臟，而不是靈魂——這樣一來，他就違反了阿德貝·沃夫林的《魔法基本規則》的第一條：
Tamper with the deepest mysteries – the source of life, the essence of self – only if prepared for consequences of the most extreme and dangerous kind.
篡改最深層次的秘密——生命的來源，自我的本質——必須準備承擔最極端和最危險的后果。
And sure enough, in seeking to become super- human this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman.
果然，為了讓自己變成一個超人，這位魯莽的年輕人使自己喪失了人性。
The heart he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
那顆被他鎖起來的心臟逐漸皺縮，長出了毛，象征著他本人淪為獸類。
He is finally reduced to a violent animal who takes what he wants by force, and he dies in a futile attempt to regain what is now forever beyond his reach – a human heart.
他最后墮落為一頭兇猛的野獸，用暴力搶奪他想要的東西，然后死于徒勞地企圖得到他已永遠無法得到的東西——一顆人心。
Though somewhat dated, the expression “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard.
“有一顆毛心臟”這句話雖然陳舊，卻已經成為巫師的日常用語，用來形容一個冷酷的、鐵石心腸的巫女或男巫。
My maiden aunt, Honoria, always alleged that she called off her engagement to a wizard in the Improper Use of Magic Office because she discovered in time that “he had a hairy heart”.
我那未婚的姑媽霍諾利亞總是聲稱，她跟一個在禁止濫用魔法辦公室工作的巫師解除了婚約，因為她及時發現了“他有一顆毛心臟”。
(It was rumored, however, that she actually discovered him in the act of fondling some Horklumps,Note. 4 Horklumps are pink, bristly mushroom-like creatures.
（根據傳言，她實際上看見的是他在逗弄幾只霍克拉普.注釋四：霍克拉普是一種粉色的、長著毛的，形似蘑菇的生物。
It is very difficult to see why anyone would want to fondle them.
很難解釋為什么會有人愿意逗弄它們。
For further information, see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.)which she found deeply shocking.
更多信息參見《怪獸及其產地》。）這令她極其震驚。
More recently, the self-help book The Hairy Heart: A Guide to Wizards Who Won't Commit (Note. 5 Not to be confused with Hairy Snout, Human Heart, a heart-rending account of one man's struggle with lycanthropy.)has topped bestseller lists.
最近，自助讀物《毛心臟：不敢做壞事的巫師必讀》（注釋五：請勿與《毛鼻子,人心》混淆,它講述的是一個人與變獸妄想狂抗爭的令人心碎的故事。）登上了暢銷書榜首。
