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Somebody had been in to tidy; the windows were open and sun was pouring inside.
有人進房間打掃過了，窗子是開著的，陽光傾瀉而進。
Harry could hear the buses rolling by in the unseen Muggle street behind him,
哈利可以聽到從他身后看不見的麻瓜街上傳來的汽車聲，
and the sound of the invisible crowd below in Diagon Alley.
也聽得到對角巷中看不見的人群聲。
He caught sight of himself in the mirror over the basin.
他從洗手池上方的鏡子里看到了自己。
'It can't have been a death omen,' he told his reflection defiantly.
“那不會是死亡的預(yù)兆，”他不顧一切地對鏡中的自己說，
'I was panicking when I saw that thing in Magnolia Crescent.
“我在木蘭花新月看到它的時候，正在神魂不定呢。
It was probably just a stray dog... '
那可能只不過是一條迷路的狗罷了……”
He raised his hand automatically and tried to make his hair lie flat.
他機械地舉起了手，想撫平頭發(fā)。
'You're fighting a losing battle there, dear,' said his mirror in a wheezy voice.
“你在打一場要失敗的戰(zhàn)爭呢，親愛的。”他的鏡子氣喘吁吁地說道。
As the days slipped by, Harry started looking wherever he went for a sign of Ron or Hermione.
日子一天天過去了，哈利開始到什么地方都盼望著能遇到羅恩或是赫敏。
Plenty of Hogwarts students were arriving in Diagon Alley now, with the start of term so near.
現(xiàn)在，霍格沃茨學(xué)校的許多學(xué)生都到對角巷來了，因為不久就要開學(xué)了。
Harry met Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, his fellow Gryffindors, in Quality Quidditch Supplies, where they, too, were ogling the Firebolt;
哈利遇到西莫斐尼甘和迪安托馬斯，他們都是他在格蘭芬多院的同學(xué)，他們也在魁地奇精品專賣店貪婪地盯視那把火弩箭；
he also ran into the real Neville Longbottom, a round-faced, forgetful boy, outside Flourish and Blotts.
他還在書店外面碰到過真正的納威隆巴頓，一個圓臉、愛忘事的男孩。
Harry didn't stop to chat; Neville appeared to have mislaid his booklist, and was being told off by his very formidable-looking grandmother.
哈利沒有停下來和他閑談；納威似乎把他的書單不知擱在什么地方了，因而被他那位看上去很可怕的祖母數(shù)落了一番。
Harry hoped she never found out that he'd pretended to be Neville while on the run from the Ministry of Magic.
哈利希望她一直不會發(fā)現(xiàn)他在逃離女貞路時假冒過納威的名字。
