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Harry didn't have to do his homework under the blankets by torchlight any more;
哈利再也不用躲在被單下拿著手電筒做家庭作業了，
now he could sit in the bright sunshine outside Florean Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour,
現在他可以坐在弗洛林冷飲店外面的燦爛陽光下，
finishing all his essays with occasional help from Florean Fortescue himself,
完成他所有的論文，有時候還能得到弗洛林本人的指導，
who, apart from knowing a great deal about medieval witch-burnings, gave Harry free sundaes every half hour.
弗洛林除了在中世紀焚燒女巫方面具有廣泛的知識以外，還每隔半小時就免費供給哈利一盒冰淇淋。
Once Harry had refilled his money bag with gold Galleons, silver Sickles and bronze Knuts from his vault at Gringotts,
哈利一旦把錢袋又放滿了金加隆、銀西可和銅納特以后，
he needed to exercise a lot of self-control not to spend the whole lot at once.
他就需要實行自我控制，以免把錢一下子花光。
He had to keep reminding himself that he had five years to go at Hogwarts,
他必須不斷提醒自己：他還要在霍格沃茨過五年，
and how it would feel to ask the Dursleys for money for spellbooks, to stop himself buying a handsome set of solid gold Gobstones
而且，向德思禮家人要錢買魔法書會是什么滋味，這樣他才能忍住不買一套漂亮的結結實實的金戈布石
(a wizarding game rather like marbles, in which the stones squirted a nasty-smelling liquid into the other player's face when they lost a point).
（魔法界的一種游戲，有點像彈子戲，在這種游戲中，誰丟了一分，那些小石子兒就會把發臭的液體噴射到他臉上）。
He was sorely tempted, too, by the perfect, moving model of the galaxy in a large glass ball, which would have meant he never had to take another Astronomy lesson.
有一種大玻璃球，里面是美妙的活動星座模型，有了它，就可以不必再上天文學課了；哈利也很想買。
But the thing that tested Harry's resolution most appeared in his favourite shop, Quality Quidditch Supplies, a week after he'd arrived at the Leaky Cauldron.
但最使哈利動心的東西在他最喜愛的商店，魁地奇精品專賣店里，這是他到了破釜酒吧一星期以后的事。
Curious to know what the crowd in the shop was staring at,
當時有許多人擠在那里看，哈利很好奇，于是便擠了進去。
Harry edged his way inside and squeezed in amongst the excited witches and wizards
他擠在興奮的女巫和男巫中間，
until he glimpsed a newly erected podium on which was mounted the most magnificent broom he had ever seen in his life.
直到他看到在一個新樹立起來的墩座上，有一把掃帚，那是他平生所見過的漂亮得令人吃驚的掃帚。
