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[7]"Silence!" said Snape coldly. "What have you done with the car?"

“安静！”斯内普冷冷地说，“你们对汽车做了什么？”

[8]"I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow," Snape went on.

“我在检查花园时发现，一棵非常珍贵的打人柳似乎受到了很大的损害。”斯内普继续说。

[9]"Silence!" snapped Snape again. "Most unfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not rest with me. I shall go and fetch the people who do have thathappy power. You will wait here."

“安静！”斯内普再次厉声呵斥，“真可惜，你们不是我学院的学生，我无权作出开除你们的决定。我去把真正拥有这个愉快特权的人找来。你们在这儿等着。”

[10]He cleared his throatand said, "Professor Dumbledore, these boys have flouted the Decree for the Restriction of Underage Wizardry, caused serious damage to an old and valuabletree - surely acts of this nature -"

他清了清喉咙，说：“邓布利多教授，这两个学生无视《对未成年巫师加以合理约束法》，对一棵珍贵的古树造成了严重的损害……这种性质的行为当然……”

[11]"If I might speak, Headmaster," said Snape from the shadows, and Harry's sense of forboding increased; he was sure nothing Snape had to say was going to do him any good.

“请允许我说一句，校长。”斯内普在阴影里说，哈利内心不祥的感觉更强烈了。他相信，斯内普说的话绝不会对自己有任何好处。

[12]"Potter and his friends may have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, a slight sneer curling his mouth as though he doubted it."But we do have a set of suspicious circumstances here. Why was he in the upstairs corridor at all? Why wasn't he at the Halloween feast?"

“也许，波特和他的朋友只是不该在那个时间出现在那个地方，”斯内普说，嘴唇扭动着露出一丝讥笑，仿佛他对此深表怀疑，“但我们确实遇到了一系列的疑点。他们究竟为什么要到上面的走廊去呢？他们为什么没有参加万圣节的宴会？”