GGAD通信集 第26章 The Twenty-fifth Owl From G

December 25th, 1981

公元1981年，十二月25日

Dumbledore—

邓布利多——

I seem to be acquiring a habit of writing at Christmas. Very well, merrymaking and festivities for all, twine the holly and the ivy, etcetera, etcetera. Are people making that oh-so common mistake of confusing good cheer with goodness?

我似乎患上了在圣诞节写信的习惯。妙极了，寻欢作乐，普天同庆，冬青木与常春藤交织一处，其他什物，诸如此类。哼，人们还在犯那个极其常见的错误，把喧嚣狂欢与美德混为一谈吗?

I've heard wild stories. Apparently your Dark Lord was defeated by a one-year-old baby? I think you dragged your feet on this one, Albus, and you didn't even have a dead sister for an excuse.

我听说了那些狂野的故事。据说你的黑魔王被一个一岁的婴儿击败了？阿不思，我认为，在这事上你定是懒怠拖沓了，而甚至没有个死去的妹妹当借口。

But there I go again. After all these years, I thought I'd grown tired of mocking you. But you invite it so obligingly! And I will never quite cease to be angry at you. You seem to have confused that with hatred more than once.

但我又来了。这么多年后，我本想我已变得疲于嘲讽你了。但你却如此亲切地来请！看来我对你的满腔怒火要永不终了了。而你，似乎又不止一次地将其与仇恨混作一谈。

The Voldemort boy— no, but I suppose he isn't a boy anymore, is he? He must be, what, at least forty by now? Not dead yet? Go off & finish the job, Dumbledore. Isn't that what you do?

那个小毛孩伏地魔——不，我应该说他再不是个孩子了，对吧？他现在一定至少，呃，四十岁了吧？但还没死？赶快行动，结束这个任务，邓布利多。这难道不是你该做的吗？

As to remorse? That is between myself and myself. Or what's left of myself. Wavy shadow of Gellert in the grimy narrow window, faded eyes, faded face, faded will— that's his concern. Just as your own burden of guilt is your business.

至于忏悔？那完完全全只关乎我自己——或者说，在漫长的牢狱生涯消磨后，所残余的我自己。污秽狭小的窗上有盖勒特斑驳的身影，黯淡的眼瞳，枯槁的面庞，渐颓的意志——那是他的担心。正如你对自己罪行所负的责任只是你的私事。

How on earth did your fair island spawn its own Park Lord anyway? We come from the wilds of the North, as a general rule.

你那正义的小岛上究竟是怎样培育出自己的黑魔王的？通常情况下，我们来自北方的荒原。

Don't waste your sincerity, seeing as it's so rare. I'm the same as always. How could I be anything else?

鉴于你的真诚弥足珍贵，别肆意浪费它了。我仍是一切如旧。不然我还能怎么样呢？

译者注：

1：不得不说，第一段GG讽得妙极

2：当时伏地魔实际年龄为55岁

3：&，源于拉丁词语et（意为“和”，同and）强调两个事物的联合，绑定关系，使文章排列更紧凑，余在翻译过程中会尽量以符号代替连词保留原句结构。

4：Or what's left of myself（或者说，在漫长的牢狱生涯消磨后，所残余的我自己）不难看出余在翻译这句话时掺杂了大量个人理解（我是真的不行了怎么改都不通）

5：11封信中GG曾云英格兰是一个代表“真理和正义的地方”（无疑是夹讥带讽的）；15封信中GG的开头便是“所以你让自己在正义的阿尔巴岛上有了一个黑魔王宝宝？”

P. S. 怀疑这两人写的时候是不是还瞟着以前的信啊……

好吧，想不出GG为什么生气……会不会跟那个装在瓶子里的魔鬼一个思维？

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