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哈利波特与魔法石The Letters from No One(二)

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There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water.

“What's this?” he asked Aunt Petunia. Her lips tightened as they always did if he dared to ask a question.

“Your new school uniform,” she said.

Harry looked in the bowl again.

“Oh,” he said, “I didn't realize it had to be so wet.”

“Don't be stupid,” snapped Aunt Petunia. “I'm dyeing some of Dudley's old things gray for you. It'll look just like everyone else's when I've finished.”

Harry seriously doubted this, but thought it best not to argue. He sat down at the table and tried not to think about how he was going to look on his first day at Stonewall High — like he was wearing bits of old elephant skin, probably.

Dudley and Uncle Vernon came in, both with wrinkled noses because of the smell from Harry's new uniform. Uncle Vernon opened his newspaper as usual and Dudley banged his Smelting stick, which he carried everywhere, on the table.

They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.

“Get the mail, Dudley,” said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.

“Make Harry get it.”

“Get the mail, Harry.”

“Make Dudley get it.”

“Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.”

Harry dodged the Smelting stick and went to get the mail. Three things lay on the doormat: a postcard from Uncle Vernon's sister Marge, who was vacationing on the Isle of Wight, a brown envelope that looked like a bill, and — a letter for Harry.

Harry picked it up and stared at it, his heart twanging like a giant elastic band. No one, ever, in his whole life, had written to him. Who would? He had no friends, no other relatives — he didn't belong to the library, so he'd never even got rude notes asking for books back. Yet here it was, a letter, addressed so plainly there could be no mistake:

Mr. H. Potter

The Cupboard under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

The envelope was thick and heavy, made of yellowish parchment, and the address was written in emerald-green ink. There was no stamp.

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H.

“Hurry up, boy!” shouted Uncle Vernon from the kitchen. “What are you doing, checking for letter bombs?” He chuckled at his own joke.

  第二天早上哈利正准备去厨房吃早饭时,突然闻到一股难闻的气味。这味道好像是从洗碗池里发出来的。他走过去一看,只见池子里满是一些看上去脏脏的东西浮在乌黑的水上。

  "这是什么?"他问帕尤妮亚姨妈。

  "你的新衣服。"她答道。

  哈利又往池子里看了一眼。

  "喔!"他说,"我没想到它们会这么湿。"

  "别傻了,"帕尤妮亚姨妈没好气地说,"我正在把达德里旧衣服上的乌黑色染到你的校服上。当我弄完后,它看上去就会跟其他孩子的校服一模一样了。"哈利非常怀疑她说的话,但是他知道自己最好别再争辩。他一屁股坐下,为不知道上斯德伍中学第一天自己会是什么样子而犯愁——可能他会像披着大象的皮。

  这时达德里和维能姨丈走了进来,他们都因为哈利新校服上发出的臭气而皱起了鼻子。维能姨文像往常一样打开了报纸,达德里呼呼地在桌子上敲他那根随身携带的根子。

  这时只听到邮箱卡搭一声响,伴有信落在门垫上的声音。

  "达德里,去拿信。"维能姨丈在报纸后说。

  "让哈利去拿。"

  "那哈利去拿吧。"

  "还是达德里去拿吧。"

  "达德里,用你的棍子打他一下。"

  哈利为躲开达德里的根子跑去拿信了。一共有三封邮件:一封是维能姨文的妹妹玛各寄来的明信片,她正在怀特岛度假。还有一个灰色的信封,看上去像一张支票——最后一封是给哈利的信。

  哈利拿起来看,他的心像一条橡皮筋带一样绷地弹了一下。还从来没有人给他写过信。会是谁呢?他没有朋友,没有其他亲人——他也从来不去图书馆,所以他不会收到图书馆的催书单。但是那封信确实是明明白白地写着:色瑞城小威宁镇四号普里怀特街楼梯下的柜子里哈利·波特先生收这信封又重又厚,估计是用羊皮纸写的。用来写地址的墨水是一种奇怪的祖母绿颜色,而且整封信没有邮票。

  颤抖着打开信封,哈利看到一个盖有纹章的紫色蜡印:一只狮子,一只鹰,一只獾和一条蛇组成了一只大大的字母"H "

  "快点啊,"维能姨丈在厨房里大喊,"你在干什么?在拆信里面的炸弹吗?"他自己先被自己开的这个玩笑逗乐了。

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