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'The spell I am going to try and teach you is highly advanced magic, Harry — well beyond Ordinary Wizarding Level. It is called the Patronus Charm.'
“我馬上要演示并且教你的咒語是一種極高深的魔法，哈利——大大高于普通巫師的水平。它叫做守護神魔咒。”
'How does it work?' said Harry nervously.
“它怎么起作用呢？”哈利緊張不安地問道。
'Well, when it works correctly, it conjures up a Patronus,' said Lupin,
“唔，當它正確起作用的時候，它就會召喚來一個守護神。”盧平說，
'which is a kind of Anti-Dementor — a guardian which acts as a shield between you and the Dementor.'
“守護神是一種抵御攝魂怪的東西——是一種護衛，在你和攝魂怪之間起到盾牌的作用。”
Harry had a sudden vision of himself crouching behind a Hagrid-sized figure holding a large club.
哈利突然想象自己蹲在海格那樣的巨人后面，手里拿著一根大棒。
Professor Lupin continued, 'The Patronus is a kind of positive force,
盧平教授繼續說道：“守護神是一種正面力量，
a projection of the very things that the Dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive,
它所倡導的東西正是攝魂怪的食糧——希望、快樂、活下去的愿望，
but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the Dementors can't hurt it.
但它不能像真正的人那樣感到絕望，因此攝魂怪就沒法傷害它。
But I must warn you, Harry, that the Charm might be too advanced for you.
不過我必須警告你，哈利，這種咒語對你來說可能過于高深。
Many qualified wizards have difficulty with it.'
許多資深巫師使用這種咒語時都感到困難。”
'What does a Patronus look like?' said Harry curiously.
“守護神看起來是什么樣子的？”哈利好奇地問道。
'Each one is unique to the wizard who conjures it.'
“每一個樣子都不同，跟召喚它的巫師有關。”
'And how do you conjure it?'
“您是怎么召喚它的呢？”
'With an incantation, which will work only if you are concentrating, with all your might, on a single, very happy memory.'
“用一種咒語，這種咒語只有在你集中思想的時候才起作甩，你應該竭盡全力回憶某一件快樂的事情。”
Harry cast about for a happy memory.
哈利搜索枯腸，尋找快樂的回憶。
Certainly, nothing that had happened to him at the Dursleys' was going to do.
在德思禮家的遭遇肯定和快樂的回憶沒有關系。
Finally, he settled on the moment when he had first ridden a broomstick.
最后，他就努力回想第一次騎上飛天掃帚的情景。
