" I stole the diadem from my mother."

“我从我母亲那里偷走了冠冕。”

" You are hardly the first student to covet the diadem." she said disdainfully.

“你不是第一个垂涎冠冕的学生，”她轻蔑地说。

" I stole the diadem." repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper.

“我偷了冠冕，”海莲娜·拉文克劳又轻声说了一遍。

They seemed to have run out of earshot, searching for the diadem.

似乎他们已经为了找王冠跑出了听力范围之外了。

Who could have told him where to look, when nobody had seen the diadem in living memory?

活着的人没有谁看到过那个王冠，是谁告诉他去哪里可以找到的？

How was it possible that Voldemort, the Slytherin, had found the diadem that had eluded generations of Ravenclaws?

伏地魔，一个斯莱特林，他是怎么找到拉文克劳家族中失传了几代的王冠？

He pulled the diadem from his wrist and held it up.

他把冠冕从手腕上褪下来举在手里。

A bloodlike substance, dark and tarry, seemed to be leaking from the diadem.

一种深色柏油样，像血的东西从王冠上渗出来。

" He hid the diadem in the castle, the night he asked Dumbledore to let him teach! " said Harry.

“他来请求邓布利多让他教书的那天晚上，把冠冕藏在城堡里！”哈利说。

" I know what the diadem looks like, and I know where it is, " said Harry, talking fast.

“我知道冠冕是什么样子了，也知道它在哪儿。”哈利快速地说。

But the only object anyone seemed to associate with Ravenclaw was the lost diadem... and how could the Horcrux be the diadem?

但是每个人都觉得唯一能和拉文克劳联系上的东西就是丢失的王冠… … 魂器怎么可能是王冠呢？

Generations of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower - but if not there, where?

那么多届的学生都没有找到那个王冠；那就说明它不在拉文克劳塔里… … 但是它不在那儿，又会在哪儿呢？

" I can't, " said Harry, " There's something I need to do. Professor, so you know where the diadem of Ravenclaw is? "

“我不能，”哈利说，“我还有一件事情要做。教授，你知道拉文克劳的冠冕在哪儿吗？”

" If you'd like to see what the diadem's supposed to look like, I could take you up to our common room and show you, Harry. "

如果你想看看那个金冕长成什么样子，我可以带你去我们的公共休息室，哈利。

" Never mind that, what about the Horcrux? " Harry shouted. " D'you think you could just? just hold it in until we've got the diadem? "

“这事先放一放吧，魂器怎么办？”哈利大声说，“你们能不能——能不能先忍一忍，等我们找到冠冕再说？”

" There's no time to explain—but if you care about Hogwarts, if you want to see Voldemort finished, you've got to tell me anything you know about the diadem! "

“没时间解释了——如果你关心霍格沃茨，如果你希望看到伏地魔完蛋，就必须把你知道的关于冠冕的事情都告诉我！”

He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hiding place, perhaps as soon as he left Hogwarts, before he even started work at Borgin and Burkes.

他已经去过了那广袤的森林，而且把王冠从它藏身的地方取了出来，也许就在他离开霍格沃茨后不久，甚至在他开始在博金－博克商店工作之前。

" My mother, they say, never admitted that the diadem was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts. "

据说我母亲从来不承认王冠丢了，仍然装作它还在她那里。她隐瞒了她的损失和我的背叛，甚至是对霍格沃茨其他的创立者也是如此。"