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'Well?' Professor Trelawney prompted delicately. 'What do you see?'
“唔？”特里勞妮教授準時體貼地發問，“你看見什么了？”
The heat was overpowering and his nostrils were stinging with the perfumed smoke wafting from the fire beside them.
房間里熱浪灼人，哈利的鼻孔里由于火里一陣陣飄出的帶香味的煙而感到刺痛。
He thought of what Ron had just said, and decided to pretend. 'Er —,' said Harry, 'a dark shape ... um ...'
他想起羅恩剛才說的話，決定假裝一下。“哦——”哈利說，“一塊黑色的東西——唔——”
'What does it resemble?' whispered Professor Trelawney. 'Think, now ...'
“那東西像什么形狀？”特里勞妮教授低聲問道。“現在，想一想……”
Harry cast his mind around and it landed on Buckbeak. 'A Hippogriff,' he said firmly.
哈利就想了起來，一下就想到了巴克比克。“是頭鷹頭馬身有翼獸。”他堅決地說。
'Indeed!' whispered Professor Trelawney, scribbling keenly on the parchment perched upon her knees.
“是嗎？”特里勞妮教授低語，在放在她膝上的羊皮紙上迅速寫下了一些什么。
'My boy, you may well be seeing the outcome of poor Hagrid's trouble with the Ministry of Magic!
“我的孩子，你很可能正在看到可憐的海格和魔法部之間的麻煩所產生的后果！
Look closer ... does the Hippogriff appear to ... have its head?'
看仔細些……這頭鷹頭馬身有翼獸好像……有腦袋嗎？”
'Yes,' said Harry firmly.
“有的。”哈利堅定地說。
'Are you sure?' Professor Trelawney urged him. 'Are you quite sure, dear?
“你能肯定嗎？”特里勞妮教授敦促他。“你很肯定嗎？親愛的？
You don't see it writhing on the ground, perhaps, and a shadowy figure raising an axe behind it?'
你是不是看到它在地上掙扎，還有一個陰影在它后邊舉起了斧頭？”
'No!' said Harry, starting to feel slightly sick.
“沒有！”哈利說，開始感到有些作嘔。
'No blood? No weeping Hagrid?'
“沒有血？沒有哭泣的海格？”
'No!' said Harry again, wanting more than ever to leave the room and the heat. 'It looks fine, it's — flying away ...'
“沒有！”哈利又說，比什么時候都想離開這間教室和這里的悶熱。“它看上去很好，它……飛走了……”
Professor Trelawney sighed. 'Well, dear, I think we'll leave it there ... a little disappointing ... but I'm sure you did your best.'
特里勞妮教授嘆了一口氣：“好吧，親愛的，我想我們就到這里吧……有點兒令人失望……不過我肯定你已經盡力而為了。”
Relieved, Harry got up, picked up his bag and turned to go, but then a loud, harsh voice spoke behind him. 'It will happen tonight.'
哈利松了一口氣，站起來，拿起書包轉身要走，但這時一個響亮、嘶啞的聲音在他背后說起話來——“這事今晚就要發生。”
