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The trip to Hagrid's, though far from fun, had nevertheless had the effect Ron and Hermione had hoped.
海格的小屋之行雖然遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不是什么有趣的事，卻收到了羅恩和赫敏所希望的效果。
Though Harry had by no means forgotten about Black,
盡管哈利絕對(duì)沒有忘了布萊克，
he couldn't brood constantly on revenge if he wanted to help Hagrid win his case against the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.
但如果他想幫助海格打贏對(duì)處置危險(xiǎn)生物委員會(huì)的官司，他就不能總是想著報(bào)仇的事了。
He, Ron and Hermione went to the library next day,
他、羅恩和赫敏第二天就到圖書館去了，
and returned to the empty common room laden with books which might help prepare a defence for Buckbeak.
回到空蕩蕩的公共休息室的時(shí)候，臂彎里抱滿了書，這些書也許有助于為巴克比克準(zhǔn)備辯護(hù)詞。
The three of them sat in front of the roaring fire, slowly turning the pages of dusty volumes about famous cases of marauding beasts,
三個(gè)人坐在怒吼的爐火前面，慢慢地翻動(dòng)著那些滿是灰塵的卷宗，那都是有關(guān)攫食動(dòng)物的著名案例，
speaking occasionally when they ran across something relevant.
他們看到相關(guān)情況時(shí)就偶爾交談幾句。
'Here's something... there was a case in 1722... but the Hippogriff was convicted — urgh, look what they did to it, that's disgusting —'
“這里有些東西……這是一七七二年的一個(gè)案例……但是這只鷹頭馬身有翼獸是判了罪的——唔，看看人們對(duì)它都做了些什么，惡心……”
'This might help, look — a Manticore savaged someone in 1296,
“這個(gè)可能有幫助，看——一二九六年一只人頭龍身獅尾怪獸咬了什么人，
and they let the Manticore off — oh — no, that was only because everyone was too scared to go near it...'
人們放了這頭怪獸——哦，不，這只是因?yàn)榇蠹叶己ε拢疾桓医咏?/div>
Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, the usual magnificent Christmas decorations had been put up,
此時(shí)，在城堡的其他地方，圣誕節(jié)慣有的壯麗裝飾都做好了，
despite the fact that hardly any of the students remained to enjoy them.
盡管留校的學(xué)生很少。
Thick streamers of holly and mistletoe were strung along the corridors,
沿著走廊掛起了冬青和槲寄生做成的厚厚的飾帶，
mysterious lights shone from inside every suit of armour and the Great Hall was filled with its usual twelve Christmas trees, glittering with golden stars.
每一副盔甲里面都透出了神秘的燈光，禮堂里照常擺放著十二棵圣誕樹，樹上閃耀著金色的星星。
A powerful and delicious smell of cooking pervaded the corridors, and by Christmas Eve,
走廊里充滿了濃烈誘人的烹飪香味，到了圣誕節(jié)前夕，
it had grown so strong that even Scabbers poked his nose out of the shelter of Ron's pocket to sniff hopefully at the air.
這香味強(qiáng)烈得就連斑斑也把鼻子從羅恩的衣袋這個(gè)庇護(hù)所里伸了出來，飽含希望地嗅著這股氣息。
