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Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year.
就一個十三歲的孩子而言，哈利顯得很小很瘦，不過去年以來他也長高了幾英寸。
His jet-black hair, however, was just as it always had been: stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it.
然而，他烏黑的頭發(fā)仍舊和以前一樣：不管他想什么法子，它們?nèi)耘f亂糟糟地不聽話。
The eyes behind his glasses were bright green,
眼鏡后面的眼睛閃著明亮的綠色，
and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning.
在前額上的頭發(fā)中間，明顯可見有一道細長的傷疤，傷疤的形狀好像是一道閃電。
Of all the unusual things about Harry, this scar was the most extraordinary of all.
在哈利所具有的一切與眾不同的特點之中，這道傷疤是最特殊的。
It was not, as the Dursleys had pretended for ten years, a souvenir of the car crash that had killed Harry's parents,
十年來，德思禮一家一直硬說這是一次車禍留下的紀念，哈利的父母就是在那次車禍中喪生的。
because Lily and James Potter had not died in a car crash.
但他們并不是死于車禍，
They had been murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred years, Lord Voldemort.
他們是被人殺死的，是被百年以來最可怕的黑巫師伏地魔殺死的。
Harry had escaped from the same attack with nothing more than a scar on his forehead,
哈利逃脫了這次厄運，只在前額留下了這道傷疤，
when Voldemort's curse, instead of killing him, had rebounded upon its originator.
那時，伏地魔的詛咒沒有殺死他，反而返回到他自己身上。
Barely alive, Voldemort had fled... But Harry had come face to face with him since at Hogwarts.
伏地魔九死一生，逃脫了……但是，自從哈利到霍格沃茨學(xué)校上學(xué)以來，曾經(jīng)與這個魔頭面對面地相遇過。
Remembering their last meeting as he stood at the dark window,
哈利站在黑暗的窗口，想起上次的相遇，
Harry had to admit he was lucky even to have reached his thirteenth birthday.
不能不承認他能活到十三歲，實在是幸運。
