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He scanned the starry sky for a sign of Hedwig,
他掃視滿布星星的天空，尋找海德薇的蹤影，
perhaps soaring back to him with a dead mouse dangling from her beak, expecting praise.
也許它嘴里銜著一只晃晃悠悠的死耗子，就這樣向著他飛回來了，還等著他的稱贊。
Gazing absently over the rooftops, it was a few seconds before Harry realised what he was seeing.
哈利心不在焉地往外面的屋頂上看去，幾秒鐘之后才醒悟過來他看到了什么。
Silhouetted against the golden moon,
在金黃色的月亮照耀之下，
and growing larger every moment, was a large, strangely lop-sided creature, and it was flapping in Harry's direction.
一個奇形怪狀、歪歪扭扭的黑影正在向哈利這邊飛來，而且越來越大。
He stood quite still, watching it sink lower and lower.
哈利一動不動地站在那里，眼看它飛得越來越低。
For a split second, he hesitated, his hand on the window-latch, wondering whether to slam it shut,
他遲疑了一剎那，手抓住窗栓，心想是不是應該關上窗子。
but then the bizarre creature soared over one of the streetlamps of Privet Drive, and Harry, realising what it was, leapt aside.
但那個稀奇古怪的東西飛到了女貞路的一根燈柱上方，于是哈利看出來那是個什么東西，一跳閃開了。
Through the window soared three owls, two of them holding up the third, which appeared to be unconscious.
三只貓頭鷹從窗口飛了進來，其中兩只護著第三只，那第三只似乎失去了知覺。
They landed with a soft flump on Harry's bed, and the middle owl, which was large and grey, keeled right over and lay motionless.
它們噗的一聲落在哈利的床上，中間那只灰色的大貓頭鷹一頭栽了下來，不動了。
There was a large package tied to its legs.
它的腿上拴著一個大包裹。
Harry recognised the unconscious owl at once—his name was Errol, and he belonged to the Weasley family.
哈利馬上就認出了這只失去知覺的貓頭鷹——它的名字叫埃羅爾，是韋斯萊家養的。
Harry dashed to the bed at once, untied the cords around Errol's legs, took off the parcel and then carried Errol to Hedwig's cage.
哈利立刻沖向床邊，解開埃羅爾腿上的帶子，拿下那個包裹，然后把埃羅爾放到了海德薇的籠子里。
