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Errol opened one bleary eye, gave a feeble hoot of thanks, and began to gulp some water.
埃羅爾睜開一只朦朧的眼睛，發出一聲表示感謝的聲音，然后開始喝了幾口水。
Harry turned back to the remaining owls.
哈利再去看那兩只貓頭鷹。
One of them, the large snowy female, was his own Hedwig.
其中之一，就是那只大的、雪白的雌貓頭鷹，是他自己的海德薇。
She, too, was carrying a parcel, and looked extremely pleased with herself.
它也帶著一個包裹，而且看上去一副得意洋洋的樣子。
She gave Harry an affectionate nip with her beak as he removed her burden, then flew across the room to join Errol.
他解下它的包裹，這時，它用喙輕啄了哈利一下，表示愛撫，然后就穿過房間和埃羅爾站到一處去了。
Harry didn't recognise the third owl, a handsome tawny one, but he knew at once where it had come from,
哈利不認識那第三只貓頭鷹，這是只黃褐色的漂亮的貓頭鷹，不過他立刻知道了它來自哪里，
because in addition to a third parcel, it was carrying a letter bearing the Hogwarts crest.
因為它除了攜帶著一個小包裹以外，還帶得有一封信，信封上有霍格沃茨學校的飾章。
When Harry relieved this owl of its post it ruffled its feathers importantly, stretched its wings and took off through the window into the night.
哈利取下這只貓頭鷹攜帶的郵件，它鄭重其事地抖抖羽毛，展開雙翼，就從窗口飛向夜空去了。
Harry sat down on his bed, grabbed Errol's package,
哈利坐在床上，抓過埃羅爾帶來的包裹，
ripped off the brown paper and discovered a present wrapped in gold, and his first ever birthday card.
一把撕開外面的牛皮紙，看到了用金色紙包起來的禮物，那是他生平第一次收到的生日賀卡。
Fingers trembling slightly, he opened the envelope.
哈利的手有一點兒發抖，他打開了信封。
Two pieces of paper fell out—a letter and a newspaper cutting.
兩張紙掉了出來——一張是信，另外一張是剪報。
The cutting had clearly come out of the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet,
這張剪報顯然是從魔法界的報紙《預言家日報》上剪下來的，
because the people in the black and white picture were moving.
因為那張黑白照片上的人物是活動的。
