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They had indeed been searching books for Flamel's name ever since Hagrid had let it slip,
確實，自從海格說漏嘴以后，他們一直在書里尋找勒梅的名字，
because how else were they going to find out what Snape was trying to steal?
除此之外，他們還有什么辦法可以弄清斯內普想偷的是什么東西呢？
The trouble was, it was very hard to know where to begin, not knowing what Flamel might have done to get himself into a book.
麻煩的是，他們很難知道從何處入手，不知道勒梅有什么突出成就，能夠被寫進書里。
He wasn't in Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century, or Notable Magical Names of Our Time;
他不在《二十世紀的大巫師》里，也不在《當代著名魔法家名錄》里。
he was missing, too, from Important Modern Magical Discoveries, and A Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry.
另外，《現代魔法的重大發現》和《近代巫術發展研究》中也找不到他的名字。
And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows.
還有，當然啦，單是館內藏書的規模就令人望而卻步，那里有成千上萬本書，幾千個書架，幾百條狹窄的通道。
Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random.
赫敏從口袋里掏出一張清單，上面列著她決定要查找的主題和書名。與此同時，羅恩在一排圖書前溜達著，漫無目標地把一些書從書架上面抽出來。
Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section. He had been wondering for a while if Flamel wasn't somewhere in there.
哈利不知不覺來到禁書區。他猜想，如果勒梅的資料在能夠找到，恐怕也只能在禁書區碰碰運氣了。
Unfortunately, you needed a specially signed note from one of the teachers to look in any of the restricted books,and he knew he'd never get one.
不幸的是，要查找任何一本禁書都必須有某位老師親筆簽名的紙條，哈利知道他是不可能弄到這種紙條的。
These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts,
在這些書里，包含著從不在霍格沃茨課堂上講授的很厲害的黑魔法，
and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts.
只有高年級學生在研究高深的“黑魔法防御術”時才能讀到。
