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Tom clicked his fingers, a fire burst into life in the grate, and he bowed himself out of the room.
湯姆彈了一下手指，壁爐里就生起了火；他鞠了一躬，離開了。
'Sit down, Harry,' said Fudge, indicating a chair by the fire.
“坐下，哈利。”福吉說，指著火爐旁的一把椅子。
Harry sat down, feeling goosebumps rising up his arms despite the glow of the fire.
哈利坐下了。盡管有火，他還是覺得手臂上起了雞皮疙瘩。
Fudge took off his pinstriped cloak and tossed it aside, then hitched up the trousers of his bottle-green suit and sat down opposite Harry.
福吉脫下他的細條紋長袍，把它扔在了一旁，然后急速拉起他那套深綠色西裝的褲子，在哈利對面坐下來。“
'I am Cornelius Fudge, Harry. The Minister for Magic.'
我是康奈利福吉，哈利。魔法部部長。”
Harry already knew this, of course; he had seen Fudge once before,
哈利當然早巳知道，以前他見過福吉一次，
but as he had been wearing his father's Invisibility Cloak at the time, Fudge wasn't to know that.
但那時他穿著他爸爸的隱形衣，可不能讓福吉知道這件事。
Tom the innkeeper reappeared, wearing an apron over his nightshirt and bearing a tray of tea and crumpets.
酒吧老板湯姆又出現了，在睡衣外面加了一條圍裙，用托盤拿來了茶和烤面餅。
He placed the tray on a table between Fudge and Harry, and left the parlour, closing the door behind him.
他把托盤放在福吉和哈利之間的桌子上，離開雅座，隨手帶上了門。
'Well, Harry,' said Fudge, pouring out tea, 'you've had us all in a right flap, I don't mind telling you.
“好吧，哈利，”福吉說，一面把茶倒出來，“我不怕你知道，你讓我們慌作一團了。
Running away from your aunt and uncle's house like that!
從你姨媽和姨父家這樣跑出來！
I'd started to think... but you're safe, and that's what matters.'
我原來以為……不過你沒出事，要緊的是這一點。”
Fudge buttered himself a crumpet and pushed the plate towards Harry.
福吉給自己的烤面餅抹上黃油，然后把盤子向哈利推過去。
'Eat, Harry, you look dead on your feet.
“吃，哈利，你看上去死氣沉沉的。
Now then... You will be pleased to hear that we have dealt with the unfortunate blowing-up of Miss Marjorie Dursley.
現在……你會高興地聽到我們是怎樣解決瑪姬小姐不幸被吹脹這件事的。
Two members of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad were dispatched to Privet Drive a few hours ago.
幾個鐘點以前，偶發事件逆轉部的兩名成員奉命到了女貞路。
