第7章（1/3）

I do not even know my own reaction. But, Albus, I thought you did not kill.

我甚至不能料到自己的反应。可是，阿不思，我想你不会停下。

As for your little moment ofbustion—there are no dementors in Nurmengard, Albus. The guards are only human—and, no, you shouldn't begrudge them a little sport with me. I have gone too far down the path of the Dark for pain to be anything but an inconvenience. Didn't you, too, rant endlessly about my sins when you finally came to vanquish me Wouldn't you have me tossed in prison for taking the life of a single Muggle, after your saintly change of heart, no matter what it means for our Greater Good Who are you to dictate my Hell

至于你那小小的怒火——纽蒙迦德可没有摄魂怪，阿不思。看守也只是人类——还有，不，你不应该对我特殊关照而引起他们的嫉妒。我在黑暗里走得太远，疼痛于我而言也不再是麻烦。但是你，你难道没有吗？没有在打败我之后，和那些人站在一起，高声痛斥过我的罪行吗？你不是也把我丢进监狱，像个麻瓜一样度过余生，不是在洗心革面之后，抛弃了我们更伟大的利益吗？你有什么资格来主宰我？

There are no dementors, yet still, every night as I sleep, there are screams. And do you really think I'd prefer to hear the screams of wizards falling in battle, or of Muggles at labor or under torture, or even my own when I heard of your betrayal to our cause, when instead I might hear your screams of pleasure at my hands all those years ago Of course I have been thinking of that. Of course I have been writing on it. You were beautiful once, you miserable dingbat.

这里没有摄魂怪，尽管如此，每夜我入睡的时候，还是会听到尖叫声。你真的觉得，比起巫师们在决斗中败落时的吶喊，被折磨奴役的麻瓜的悲号，抑或是听说你背叛了我们事业之后自己的怒吼，我不会更喜欢听见你被我爱抚时发出的细细的呻.吟，尽管是在那么多年以前？我当然会想起它，也会写下它。你曾经是那么迷人，可悲的傻瓜。

And if you are ashamed, humiliated, that you were once the confidant and lover of the Dark terror of the century—well, I must get my revenge somehow. Go teach your children, eat your candy, preen your bird and bury me. But we were brilliant together, Albus, and not even you can change history.

如果你因为曾经作为本世纪最恐怖的黑魔王的知己和爱人而感到羞愧的话——那么我想，我一定是尝到了过去酿成的苦果。去教你的孩子们吧，吃你的糖，打扮你的鸟，再顺便把我埋了。但我们站在一起曾经是那么耀眼，阿不思，这是就算你也无法改变的事实。

注：

1.“I must get my revenge somehow.”有两个译本，区别是“get”和“got”（got的话