《GGAD通信集- Thirty-five Owls》林待玉

2、The First Owl(From GG) 1951.

　　September 10th，1951
　　公元1951年，九月10日
　　Dumbledore—
　　邓布利多——
　　Lo, it is I. Your old friend, Gellert Grindelwald. Your surprise at reciving this, believe me, is some-what less than my surprise at writting it. Still, I go where I will, do what I will, as you well know.

　　看，是我。你的老朋友，盖勒特·格林德沃。你收到这封信时的惊讶，相信我，比起我写这封信时的惊讶可要略显逊色。我仍然随心所欲，我行我素，如你所知。

　　I hope this finds you in good time, especially after all that bragging I've heard about England's owls. The birds do not easy around Nurmengard's tower. The storm the mountains like floods. I'm twenty feet under the lightning rod, and ,oh, the crackles it makes when the cloud fronts break, like the whole castle's under Cruciatus. Huge anvils in the sky with the thunder hammering down from them through the night of boiling pitch, and when the clouds part it's the werewolf moons of the North coming in through the bars. It's beautiful. Through not to your taste, I assume; too uncivilized.

　　我希望这猫头鹰能比往的早些寻到你，尤其是在我听过关于英格兰猫头鹰的种种吹嘘之后。这些鸟极不易在纽蒙迦德塔周围飞行。风暴洪流似的从山上倾泻而下，我则被囚在避雷针下方二十英尺处，并且，哦，当闪电划破云层向避雷针直劈过来时，一片白萨萨的，发出的噼啪声像整个城堡都在钻心咒之下。夜黑如沥青，天上似有无数个巨大的铁砧正裹着惊雷重重地锤入这沥青似的夜里，让它沸腾起来，翻滚着，且，在云轻轻地裂开时，北方狼人之月的光又穿过铁窗栏杆间那狭小的缝隙，轻盈地洒在我的囚室里。真是唯美之至。但我自忖，这只怕不合你的品味；太不文雅了。

　　You're no doubt staring down your nose at this, letter and bedraggled owl both. (She likes white mice.) Are you really surprised, old friend, that I'd have the stomach to write to you, even after everything that happened? You shouldn't be. This is dear old Gellert, you should say. Bagshot's German pest. Never leaves me alone, even now that he's sitting in prison all day with nothing better to do. My much-lauded gold is going grey, Albus, imagine that! Still, I must say, as prisons go, the stonework is exquisite. Good of me to encourage the masons so, if curses could be considered encouragement, and they left the magic scars like jagged ivy in thegranite, very pretty. Enjoy the irony. Locked in my own prison.

　　你毫无疑问在轻蔑地凝视着这封信和这只泥污满身、水淋淋的猫头鹰。(她喜欢白老鼠。)你是不是真的很惊讶，老朋友，我竟然有胃口给你写信，甚至是在这一切发生后?你不应该如此。这是亲爱的老盖勒特，你该如此道。巴沙特家的德国坏蛋。从来不让我一个人好生静静，哪怕他现在每天坐在监狱里无事可做。我受到了许多赞扬的金发正在渐渐转成灰色，阿不思，想象一下吧！我仍然必须说，对于监狱而言，这里的石工艺十分精美。这都多亏了我对石匠们的鼓励，如果诅咒也能算一种很好的鼓励的话，他们留下的魔法痕迹在花岗岩上像突起的常春藤，实在是美轮美奂。享受这种讽刺吧。老.朋.友。被禁锢在我自己的监狱里。

　　You still at that school of yours? Enjoying teaching, I hope? Reading plenty? Eating well? Taking good care of It? You'd better be.

　　你依然在你的那所学校里吗？在享受教学么，如吾所望？读了很多书吗？吃的好吗？在好好照顾“它”吗？你最好如此。

　　Give my regards to that mad bird of yours. Hope I didn't kill him to much.

　　代我向你的那只疯狂的鸟儿问候。希望我没有伤他太深。

　　Listen to me. Hope. Hope. With the mold gathering on the walls of my cell. Laugh at me, Albus. Go on hating me like you always have. Enjoy yourself.

　　听我说。希望。希望。希望可是随着霉菌在我的牢房墙上的不断聚拢而渐渐淡化，以至终于消失了。笑话我吧，阿不思。继续一如既往地恨我。祝愉快。

　　译者注：
　　[1]信首语气词，同"Look”，即“看，瞧”之意，一说为love，后不注。
　　[2] I go where i will do what i will:这句话直译为“我想去哪就去哪，想做什么就做什么”译者认为较突兀，故用意译（而且GG肯定也没法想去哪就去哪了吧……）
　　[3]German pest: 知乎阿七作德国佬，好像比我强些……（为什么都默认GG是德国人啊？）
　　[4]It: 指老魔杖，后不注。
　　[5]mad bird of yours: 指福克斯，后不注。
　　[6]两个hope什么意思？译者不同意思也大相径庭……

　　谢谢评论区的提醒

作者有话说

　　读《卡勒瓦拉》的时候发现GG的那一段景物描写有几句和这本书里的句子很像，原作者估计受这本书的影响挺深的，后文也有对里面角色的提及。