HPMOR 第9章｜标题已隐去，第一部分（中英对照）

你从来都不知道，什么微不足道的小事会打乱你的宏伟计划。

"Abbott, Hannah!"

「艾博，汉娜！」

Pause.

停顿。

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

「赫奇帕奇！」

"Bones, Susan!"

「博恩斯，苏珊！」

Pause.

停顿。

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

「赫奇帕奇！」

"Boot, Terry!"

「布特，泰瑞！」

Pause.

停顿。

"RAVENCLAW!"

「拉文克劳！」

Harry glanced over briefly at his new House-mate, more to get a quick look at the face than anything else. He was still trying to get himself under control from his encounter with the ghosts. The sad, the really sad, the really truly sad thing was that he did seem to be getting himself under control again. It seemed ill-fitting. Like he should have taken at least a day. Maybe a whole lifetime. Maybe just never.

哈利短暂地瞥了眼新来的同院同学，主要只是想迅速看清他的脸。他还在努力从撞见那些鬼魂的冲击里平复下来。可悲的是——真正可悲、真正真正可悲的是——他居然真的正在重新平静下来。这感觉不太对劲。按理说，他至少该用上一天。也许一辈子。也许永远都不该恢复。

"Corner, Michael!"

「科纳，迈克尔！」

Long pause.

长久的停顿。

"RAVENCLAW!"

「拉文克劳！」

At the lectern before the huge Head Table stood Professor McGonagall, looking sharp and looking sharply around, as she called out one name after another, though she had smiled only for Hermione and a few others. Behind her, in the tallest chair at the table - really more of a golden throne - sat a wizened and bespectacled ancient, with a silver-white beard that looked like it would go almost to the floor if it were visible, watching over the Sorting with a benevolent expression; as stereotypical in appearance as a Wise Old Man could possibly be, without actually being Oriental. (Though Harry had learned to be wary of stereotypical appearances from the first time he'd met Professor McGonagall and thought that she ought to cackle.) The ancient wizard had applauded every student Sorted, with an unwavering smile that somehow seemed freshly delighted for each.

麦格教授站在巨大教师席前的讲台边。她显得干练利落，目光也锐利地扫视四周；她一边叫出一个又一个名字，却只有看到赫敏和另外几个学生时才会露出笑容。她身后那张桌子旁，位置最高的那把椅子——其实更像一座金色王座——上坐着一位老人。他满脸皱纹，戴着眼镜，银白色的胡子如果露得出来，恐怕几乎能垂到地板上；此刻他正慈祥地看着分院仪式。他的外表简直把「睿智老人」这个刻板形象演到了极致，只是并非来自东方。（不过，哈利从第一次见麦格教授时就学会了提防这种刻板外表；那次他还以为她应该发出邪恶的咯咯笑。）这位老巫师给每一个被分院的学生鼓掌，脸上的笑容始终不变，却又不知怎么显得每一次都像刚刚为这个学生感到高兴。

To the golden throne's left side was a man with sharp eyes and a dour face who had applauded no-one, and who somehow managed to be looking straight back at Harry every time Harry looked at him. Further to the left, the pale-faced man Harry had seen in the Leaky Cauldron, whose eyes darted around as though in panic at the surrounding crowd, and who seemed to occasionally jerk and twitch in his seat; for some reason Harry kept finding himself staring at him. To that man's left, a string of three older witches who didn't seem much interested in the students. Then to the right side of the tall golden chair, a round-faced middle-aged witch with a yellow hat, who had applauded every student except the Slytherins. A tiny man standing on his chair, with a poofy white beard, who had applauded every student, but smiled only upon the Ravenclaws. And on the farthest right, occupying the same space as three lesser beings, the mountainous entity who'd greeted them all after they'd disembarked from the train, naming himself Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds.

金色王座左边是一个目光锐利、面色阴沉的男人。他从不给任何人鼓掌，而且不知怎么做到的：每次哈利看向他时，他都正好直直地回望着哈利。再往左，是哈利在破釜酒吧见过的那个脸色苍白的男人。他的眼睛仿佛因四周的人群而惊慌失措，不时在椅子上抽动、痉挛一下；不知为什么，哈利总会发现自己盯着他。那人左边坐着三个年长女巫，她们似乎对学生毫无兴趣。高椅子的右边，则是一位戴黄色帽子、圆脸的中年女巫；她给每个学生鼓掌，唯独斯莱特林的学生例外。接着是一位站在自己椅子上的小个子男人，留着蓬松的白胡子；他给每个学生鼓掌，却只对拉文克劳的学生微笑。最右边，是那个在他们下火车后迎接所有人的山一样的存在，光他一个就占了差不多三个小人物的地方。他自称海格，是钥匙保管员兼猎场看守。

"Is the man standing on his chair the Head of Ravenclaw?" Harry whispered towards Hermione.

「那个站在椅子上的人，是拉文克劳的院长吗？」哈利朝赫敏低声问道。

For once Hermione didn't answer this instantly; she was shifting constantly from side to side, staring at the Sorting Hat, and fidgeting so energetically that Harry thought her feet might be leaving the floor.

赫敏难得没有立刻回答。她不停地左右挪动，目光死死盯着分院帽，坐立不安到哈利觉得她的脚都快离地了。

"Yes, he is," said one of the prefects who'd accompanied them, a young woman wearing the blue of Ravenclaw. Miss Clearwater, if Harry recalled correctly. Her voice was quiet, but conveyed a tinge of pride. "That is the Charms Professor of Hogwarts, Filius Flitwick, the most knowledgeable Charms Master alive, and a past Duelling Champion -"

「是的，就是他。」陪着他们来的一个级长说道。那是一位身穿拉文克劳蓝色长袍的年轻女巫；如果哈利没记错，她应该是克里瓦特小姐。她的声音很轻，却带着一丝自豪。「那是霍格沃茨的魔咒课教授菲利乌斯·弗立维，是当世最博学的魔咒大师，也是曾经的决斗冠军——」

"Why's he so short? " hissed a student whose name Harry didn't recall. "Is he a halfbreed? "

「他怎么这么『矮』？」一个哈利没记住名字的学生嘶声问道。「他是『混血种』吗？」

A chill glance from the young lady prefect. "The Professor does indeed have goblin ancestry -"

年轻女级长冷冷地瞥了他一眼。「这位教授确实有妖精血统——」

"What?" Harry said involuntarily, causing Hermione and four other students to hush him.

「什么？」哈利不由自主地说。赫敏和另外四个学生立刻示意他小声点。

Now Harry was getting a surprisingly intimidating glare from the Ravenclaw prefect.

这下，拉文克劳的女级长用一种出乎意料的吓人目光瞪着哈利。

"I mean -" Harry whispered. "Not that I have a problem with that - it's just - I mean - how's that possible? You can't just mix two different species together and get viable offspring! It ought to scramble the genetic instructions for every organ that's different between the two species - it'd be like trying to build," they didn't have cars so he couldn't use a scrambled-engine-blueprints analogy, "a half-carriage half-boat or something..."

「我的意思是——」哈利压低声音说，「我不是觉得这有什么问题——只是……怎么可能？两个不同物种怎么能混出能活下来并繁殖的后代？两个物种之间每个不同器官对应的遗传指令都会乱成一团——这就像要造出，」他们没有汽车，所以他不能拿混乱的引擎蓝图来打比方，「一辆一半是马车、一半是船的东西……」

The Ravenclaw prefect was still looking at Harry severely. "Why couldn't you have a half-carriage half-boat?"

拉文克劳的女级长仍然严厉地看着哈利。「为什么『不能』有半马车半船？」

"Hssh! " hsshed another prefect, though the Ravenclaw witch had still spoken quietly.

「嘘！」另一位级长压低声音制止他，尽管那位拉文克劳女巫刚才其实已经说得很轻了。

"I mean -" Harry said even more quietly, trying to figure out how to ask whether goblins had evolved from humans, or evolved from a common ancestor of humans like Homo erectus, or if goblins had been made out of humans somehow - if, say, they were still genetically human under a heritable enchantment whose magical effect was diluted if only one parent was a 'goblin', which would explain how interbreeding was possible, and in which case goblins would not be an incredibly valuable second data point for how intelligence had evolved in other species besides Homo sapiens - now that Harry thought about it, the goblins in Gringotts hadn't seemed very much like genuinely alien, nonhuman intelligences, nothing like Dirdir or Puppeteers - "I mean, where did goblins come from, anyway?"

「我的意思是——」哈利把声音压得更低，努力想清楚该怎么问：妖精是从人类进化来的，还是和人类共享某个共同祖先，比如直立人，或者是用某种方式把人类制造成了妖精——比如说，他们在基因上仍然是人类，只是身上带着一种可以遗传的魔法；如果父母只有一方是「妖精」，魔法效果就会减弱，这倒能解释为什么他们可以杂交。要是这个假说成立，妖精就不会成为研究智慧如何在不同物种中演化时，除了智人之外第二个极其宝贵的数据点——不过哈利这么一想，古灵阁的妖精似乎也没多像真正异星、非人类的智慧生命，完全不像Dirdir或Puppeteers——「我是说，妖精到底是从哪儿来的？」

"Lithuania," Hermione whispered absently, her eyes still fixed firmly on the Sorting Hat.

「立陶宛。」赫敏心不在焉地低声回答，目光仍牢牢钉在分院帽上。

Now Hermione was getting a smile from the lady prefect.

这下，女级长对赫敏露出了笑容。

"Never mind," whispered Harry.

「算了。」哈利低声说道。

At the lectern, Professor McGonagall called out, "Goldstein, Anthony!"

讲台边，麦格教授喊道：「戈德斯坦，安东尼！」

"RAVENCLAW!"

「拉文克劳！」

Hermione, next to Harry, was bouncing on her tiptoes so hard that her feet were actually leaving the ground on each bounce.

哈利身边的赫敏踮着脚尖不停弹跳，跳得那么用力，每一下脚都真的离开了地面。

"Goyle, Gregory!"

「高尔，格雷戈里！」

There was a long, tense moment of silence under the Hat. Almost a minute.

高尔戴着分院帽，漫长而紧绷的沉默持续着。将近一分钟。

"SLYTHERIN!"

「斯莱特林！」

"Granger, Hermione!"

「格兰杰，赫敏！」

Hermione broke loose and ran full tilt towards the Sorting Hat, picked it up and jammed the patchy old clothwork down hard over her head, making Harry wince. Hermione had been the one to explain to him about the Sorting Hat, but she certainly didn't treat it like an irreplaceable, vitally important, 800-year-old artefact of forgotten magic that was about to perform intricate telepathy on her mind and didn't seem to be in very good physical condition.

赫敏挣脱人群，全速冲向分院帽，抓起来就把那顶补丁斑驳的旧布帽子狠狠扣到自己头上，让哈利看得心里一缩。明明是赫敏给他讲过分院帽，可她显然完全没把它当成一件不可替代、至关重要、拥有八百年历史的失传魔法遗物——更别提这件遗物马上要对她的脑子施展复杂的心灵感应，而且看起来身体状况也不太好。

"RAVENCLAW!"

「拉文克劳！」

And talk about your foregone conclusions. Harry didn't see why Hermione had been so tense about it. In what weird alternative universe would that girl not be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.

这可真是板上钉钉的结局。哈利不明白赫敏之前为什么那么紧张。得是个多么古怪的平行宇宙，这个女孩才会不被分进拉文克劳？如果赫敏·格兰杰不去拉文克劳，拉文克劳学院还有什么存在的好理由？

Hermione arrived at the Ravenclaw table and got a dutiful cheer; Harry wondered whether the cheer would have been louder, or quieter, if they'd had any idea just what level of competition they'd welcomed to their table. Harry knew pi to 3.141592 because accuracy to one part in a million was enough for most practical purposes. Hermione knew one hundred digits of pi because that was how many digits had been printed in the back of her maths textbook.

赫敏来到拉文克劳桌旁，收获了一阵例行公事般的欢呼。哈利想知道，要是他们知道自己迎进桌边的究竟是多么可怕的竞争对手，这阵欢呼会更响，还是更轻。哈利记得π到 3.141592，因为百万分之一的精度对大多数实际用途已经够了。赫敏记得π的一百位数字，因为她的数学课本背面正好印了这么多。

Neville Longbottom went to Hufflepuff, Harry was glad to see. If that House really did contain the loyalty and camaraderie it was supposed to exemplify, then a Houseful of reliable friends would do Neville a whole world of good. Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.

纳威·隆巴顿被分进赫奇帕奇，哈利很高兴。假如那个学院确实代表着传说中的忠诚与友情，那么一整个学院的可靠朋友一定会让纳威受益匪浅。聪明的孩子去拉文克劳，坏孩子去斯莱特林，想当英雄的孩子去格兰芬多，真正干活的人去赫奇帕奇。

(Though Harry had been right to consult a Ravenclaw prefect first. The young woman hadn't even looked up from her reading or identified Harry, just jabbed a wand in Neville's direction and muttered something. After which Neville had acquired a dazed expression and wandered off to the fifth carriage from the front and the fourth compartment on the left, which indeed had contained his toad.)

（不过，哈利先去找拉文克劳的级长，果然做对了。那位年轻女巫连头都没从书上抬起来，也没认出哈利，只朝纳威的方向指了指魔杖，低声念了句什么。随后纳威脸上露出茫然的神情，晃晃悠悠地走到从车头数第五节车厢、左边第四个隔间，那里果然有他的蟾蜍。）

"Malfoy, Draco!" went to Slytherin, and Harry breathed a small sigh of relief. It had seemed like a sure thing, but you never did know what tiny event might upset the course of your master plan.

「马尔福，德拉科！」他被分进斯莱特林，哈利暗暗松了口气。看上去这本来十拿九稳，可你永远不知道，什么微不足道的小事会打乱你的宏伟计划。

Professor McGonagall called "Perks, Sally-Anne!", and from the gathered children detached a pale waifish girl who looked oddly ethereal - like she might mysteriously disappear the moment you stopped looking at her, and never be seen again or even remembered.

麦格教授喊道：「珀克斯，莎莉-安！」孩子们中走出一个脸色苍白、身形纤弱的女孩。她看起来有种奇异的空灵感，仿佛只要你移开视线，她就会神秘地消失，从此再也没人见到她，甚至没人记得她。

And then (with a note of trepidation so firmly kept from her voice and face that you'd have needed to know her very well indeed to notice) Minerva McGonagall inhaled deeply, and called out, "Potter, Harry!"

然后，米勒娃·麦格深深吸了一口气。她把声音和表情里的那一点忐忑藏得非常牢，只有极其了解她的人才会察觉。她喊道：「波特，哈利！」

There was a sudden silence in the hall.

大厅里突然安静了。

All conversation stopped.

所有交谈都停了下来。

All eyes turned to stare.

所有目光都转过来盯着他。

For the first time in his entire life, Harry felt like he might be having an opportunity to experience stage fright.

哈利有生以来第一次觉得，自己似乎有机会体验一下怯场。

Harry immediately stomped down this feeling. Whole room-fulls of people staring at him was something he'd have to accustom himself to, if he wanted to live in magical Britain, or for that matter do anything else interesting with his life. Affixing a confident and false smile to his face, he raised a foot to step forwards -

哈利立刻狠狠压下这种感觉。如果他想在英国巫师界生活，或者说，如果他这辈子还想做任何有意思的事，就得习惯整屋子的人盯着自己。他在脸上挂上一副自信而虚假的笑容，抬脚向前——

"Harry Potter!" cried the voice of either Fred or George Weasley, and then "Harry Potter!" cried the other Weasley twin, and a moment later the entire Gryffindor table, and soon after a good portion of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, had taken up the cry.

「哈利·波特！」不知是弗雷德还是乔治·韦斯莱的声音先喊道。接着，另一个韦斯莱双胞胎也喊道：「哈利·波特！」片刻之后，整个格兰芬多桌都加入进来；没过多久，拉文克劳和赫奇帕奇也有相当一部分人跟着喊了起来。

"Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Harry Potter! "

「哈利·波特！哈利·波特！哈利·波特！」

And Harry Potter walked forwards. Much too slowly, he realized once he'd begun, but by then it was too late to alter his pace without it looking awkward.

哈利·波特向前走去。他一走起来才意识到自己走得慢得离谱，可这时候再改步子，动作就会显得很尴尬。

"Harry Potter! Harry Potter! HARRY POTTER!"

「哈利·波特！哈利·波特！哈利·波特！」

With all too good a notion of what she would see, Minerva McGonagall turned to look behind herself at the rest of the Head Table.

米勒娃·麦格转过身去，看向身后的其他教师。她对自己将要看到什么，已经清楚得不能更清楚了。

Trelawney frantically fanning herself, Filius looking on with curiosity, Hagrid clapping along, Sprout looking severe, Vector and Sinistra bemused, and Quirrell gazing vacuously at nothing. Albus smiling benevolently. And Severus Snape gripping his empty wine goblet, white-knuckled, so hard that the silver was slowly deforming.

特里劳妮拼命给自己扇风，弗立维好奇地看着，海格跟着一起鼓掌，斯普劳特神情严厉，维克托和辛尼斯塔满脸困惑，奇洛目光空洞地凝视着什么也没有的地方。阿不思慈祥地微笑着。西弗勒斯·斯内普死死攥着空酒杯，指关节都捏白了；力气大到银杯正在缓慢变形。

With a wide grin, turning his head to bow to one side and then the other as he walked between the four House tables, Harry Potter walked forwards at a grandly measured pace, a prince inheriting his castle.

哈利·波特咧嘴大笑，走在四张学院桌之间，一边左右转头鞠躬，一边以庄严而从容的步子向前走去，像一个继承城堡的王子。

"Save us from some more Dark Lords!" called one of the Weasley twins, and then the other Weasley twin cried, "Especially if they're Professors!" to general laughter from all the tables except Slytherin.

韦斯莱双胞胎中的一个喊道：「可别再来几个黑魔王了，救救我们吧！」另一个双胞胎接着喊道：「尤其是当他们是教授的时候！」除了斯莱特林桌，其他每张桌子都爆发出一阵笑声。

Minerva's lips set in a white line. She would have words with the Weasley Horrors about that last part, if they thought she was powerless because it was the first day of school and Gryffindor had no points to take away. If they didn't care about detentions then she would find something else.

米勒娃的嘴唇抿成了一条白线。等会儿她要找韦斯莱那两个祸害谈谈刚才后半句话。要是他们以为今天是开学第一天、格兰芬多还没有可扣的分，她就拿他们没办法，那他们可想错了。要是他们不怕关禁闭，她就另想办法。

Then, with a sudden gasp of horror, she looked in Severus's direction, surely he realized the Potter boy must have no idea who that was talking about -

然后，她突然惊恐地倒抽一口气，看向西弗勒斯那边。他应该明白，波特这孩子根本不知道他们刚才说的是谁——

Severus's face had gone beyond rage into a kind of pleasant indifference. A faint smile played about his lips. He was looking in the direction of Harry Potter, not the Gryffindor table, and his hands held the crumpled remains of a former wine goblet.

西弗勒斯脸上的怒意越过了爆发点，变成一种愉快的漠然。他的唇边浮着一丝淡淡的笑意。他看的是哈利·波特的方向，而不是格兰芬多桌；他的双手里握着一只原本是酒杯的皱缩残骸。

Harry Potter walked forwards with a fixed smile, feeling warm inside and sort of awful at the same time.

哈利·波特带着僵硬的笑容向前走，心里一边暖烘烘的，一边又觉得有点糟糕。

They were cheering him for a job he'd done when he was one year old. A job he hadn't really finished. Somewhere, somehow, the Dark Lord was still alive. Would they have been cheering quite so hard, if they knew that?

他们在为他一岁时做的事欢呼。那件事他其实并没有真正完成。在某个地方，以某种方式，黑魔王仍然活着。要是他们知道这一点，还会欢呼得这么卖力吗？

But the Dark Lord's power had been broken once.

可黑魔王的力量曾经被打破过一次。

And Harry would protect them again. If there was in fact a prophecy and that was what it said. Well, actually regardless of what any darn prophecy said.

哈利会再次保护他们。前提是确实存在一则预言，而且预言是这么说的。好吧，其实管它什么鬼预言，他都会保护他们。

All those people believing in him and cheering him - Harry couldn't stand to let that be false. To flash and fade like so many other child prodigies. To be a disappointment. To fail to live up to his reputation as a symbol of the Light, never mind how he'd gotten it. He would absolutely, positively, no matter how long it took and even if it killed him, fulfill their expectations. And then go on to exceed those expectations, so that people wondered, looking back, that they had once asked so little of him.

所有相信他、为他欢呼的人，都让哈利无法忍受自己辜负这份信任。他不能像许多神童那样一闪即逝，不能成为一个令人失望的人，也不能辜负自己作为光明象征的名声，至于这名声究竟怎么来的，暂且不管。无论要多久，哪怕为此送命，他也一定、绝对会达到他们的期望。然后继续超越这些期望，让人们回头看时纳闷：当初怎么会只对他抱有那么低的要求。

「哈利·波特！哈利·波特！哈利·波特！」

Harry took his last steps towards the Sorting Hat. He swept a bow to the Order of Chaos at the Gryffindor table, and then turned and swept another bow to the other side of the hall, and waited for the applause and giggling to die away.

哈利迈出朝分院帽走去的最后几步。他先向格兰芬多桌的混沌骑士团郑重鞠了一躬，又转身向大厅另一边鞠了一躬，等掌声和窃笑渐渐平息。

(In the back of his mind, he wondered if the Sorting Hat was genuinely conscious in the sense of being aware of its own awareness, and if so, whether it was satisfied with only getting to talk to eleven-year-olds once per year. Its song had implied so: Oh, I'm the Sorting Hat and I'm okay, I sleep all year and I work one day...)

（在脑海深处，他好奇分院帽是否真的有意识，能意识到自己有意识；如果确实如此，它是否满足于每年只有一天能和十一岁的孩子们说话。分院帽唱的歌似乎暗示了这一点：哦，我是分院帽，我过得还行；我一年到头都睡觉，只工作一天……）

When there was once more silence in the room, Harry sat on the stool and carefully placed onto his head the 800-year-old telepathic artefact of forgotten magic.

大厅重新安静下来后，哈利坐到凳子上，小心地把那件由失传魔法造就、拥有八百年历史的心灵感应遗物戴到自己头上。

Thinking, just as hard as he could: Don't Sort me yet! I have questions I need to ask you! Have I ever been Obliviated? Did you Sort the Dark Lord when he was a child and can you tell me about his weaknesses? Can you tell me why I got the brother wand to the Dark Lord's? Is the Dark Lord's ghost bound to my scar and is that why I get so angry sometimes? Those are the most important questions, but if you've got another moment can you tell me anything about how to rediscover the lost magics that created you?

他拼尽全力想着：先别给我分院！我有问题要问你！我以前被施过遗忘咒吗？你在黑魔王还是个孩子时给他分过院吗？你能告诉我他的弱点吗？你能告诉我为什么我的魔杖会和黑魔王的那根成为兄弟魔杖吗？黑魔王的鬼魂是不是和我的伤疤绑在一起，所以我有时才会那么容易发火？这些是最重要的问题，不过你要是还能抽出一点时间，能不能告诉我怎样重新找回创造出你的那些失传魔法？

Into the silence of Harry's spirit, where before there had never been any voice but one, there came a second and unfamiliar voice, sounding distinctly worried:

在哈利灵魂的寂静深处，先前那里从来只有一个声音，现在传来了第二个陌生的声音，听起来明显很担忧：

「哦，天哪。还从来没发生过这种事……」

哈利在考虑妖精能不能成为研究智力演化的样本时，顺手拿两个经典科幻种族作参照：Dirdir 出自杰克·万斯的《Tschai》系列，Puppeteers 则是拉里·尼文《已知宇宙》里的皮尔森牵线木偶人。两个词在原文里承担的是「真正非人」的参照，帮助读者看出哈利为什么觉得古灵阁的妖精还不够像另一种智慧生命；正文保留这两个英文名称。12

分院帽那句「我一年到头都睡觉，只工作一天」，沿用了 Monty Python《伐木工之歌》的句式：「我是伐木工人，我很好；我整夜睡觉，整天工作。」分院帽把伐木工人的「整夜睡觉、整天工作」改成了自己的「睡一年、工作一天」，笑点就在这个荒谬的对照里。3

莎莉-安·珀克斯在《哈利·波特与魔法石》的分院场景中被点过名字，此后在正典里几乎没有存在感。HPMOR 把她写得像是只要移开视线就会消失，像是在拿这段「分院后就不见了」的读者记忆开玩笑。4

哈利看见教师席上的老人时，立刻把他归进「睿智老人」这个故事原型：白胡子、慈祥、坐在最高的位置，几乎每个外观信号都在告诉读者「这是位贤者」。可哈利第一次见麦格教授时，也曾因为她的外表以为她会发出咯咯笑；他已经知道，刻板的外表不能替人担保。另一边，哈利只记得 π 到 3.141592，赫敏则把课本背面印出的整整一百位都记住了。哈利满足于「够用」，赫敏则把课本给出的内容全收进脑子里；两人的性格差异就在这件小事里露了出来。