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Last term, Harry and Ron had helped Gryffindor win the House Championship, beating Slytherin for the first time in seven years.
上學期，哈利和羅恩為格蘭芬多贏得了學院杯冠軍，這是他們學院七年來第一次打敗斯萊特林。
A very small, mousy-haired boy had been called forward to place the hat on his head.
一個非常瘦小的灰頭發男孩被叫到前面，戴上了分院帽。
Harry's eyes wandered past him to where Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, sat watching the Sorting from the staff table, his long silver beard and half-moon glasses shining brightly in the candlelight.
哈利的目光移到了坐在教師席上觀看分院儀式的鄧布利多校長身上，他銀白的長須和半月形的眼鏡在燭光下閃閃發亮。
Several seats along, Harry saw Gilderoy Lockhart, dressed in robes of aquamarine.
再過去幾個座位，哈利看到了穿一身水綠色長袍的吉德羅洛哈特。
And there at the end was Hagrid, huge and hairy, drinking deeply from his goblet.
最頂頭坐著虎背熊腰、須發濃密的海格，正舉著杯子大口地喝酒。
“Hang on . . .” Harry muttered to Ron. “There's an empty chair at the staff table. . . . Where's Snape?”
“等等……”哈利低聲對羅恩說，“教師席上有一個位子空著……斯內普哪兒去了？”
Professor Severus Snape was Harry's least favorite teacher. Harry also happened to be Snape's least favorite student.
西弗勒斯斯內普教授是哈利最不喜歡的老師，而哈利碰巧又是斯內普最不喜歡的學生。
Cruel, sarcastic, and disliked by everybody except the students from his own House, Snape taught Potions.
斯內普為人殘忍刻薄，除了他自己學院（的學生以外，大家都不喜歡他。他教授的是魔藥學。
“Maybe he's ill!” said Ron hopefully.
“也許他病了！”羅恩滿懷希望地說。
“Maybe he's left,” said Harry, “because he missed out on the Defense Against the Dark Arts job again!”
“也許他走了，”哈利說，“因為他又沒當上黑魔法防御術課教師！”
“Or he might have been sacked !” said Ron enthusiastically. “I mean, everyone hates him —”
“也許他被解雇了！”羅恩興奮地說，“你想，所有的人都恨他——”
“Or maybe,” said a very cold voice right behind them, “he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train.”
“也許，”一個冰冷的聲音在他們背后說，“他在等著聽你們兩個說說為什么沒坐校車來。”
Harry spun around. There, his black robes rippling in a cold breeze, stood Severus Snape.
哈利一轉身，西弗勒斯斯內普就站在眼前，黑袍子在涼風中抖動著。
He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy, shoulder-length black hair, and at this moment, he was smiling in a way that told Harry he and Ron were in very deep trouble.
他身材枯瘦，皮膚灰黃，長著一個鷹鉤鼻，油油的黑發披到肩上。此刻他臉上的那種笑容告訴哈利，他和羅恩的處境非常不妙。
