现在终于有时间来谈谈读了三遍的《哈利波特与混血王子》。
之前读英文版,读到斯内普杀死了邓不利多校长时,简直不敢相信自己的眼睛,心里不断地祈祷自己是因为英文不过关,所以对文意理解错误……
现在读中文版了,还是不忍翻到校长死亡的那几页。
哈利波特的前五本,我对Snape一直极为痛恨,一直觉得老邓聪明一世,总会有看错人的时候。现在,Snape竟然杀死了校长,他的恶贯满盈达到了顶峰,我却反而确信,是我看错了Snape。其实,他是本书中最悲哀的角色。
老邓临死时对他说Please,并不是像哈利波特以为的那样是向Snape求饶,而是请求他履行他们之间的某个秘密约定,杀了自己。Snape吼出阿瓦达索命咒时的憎恨,憎恨的不是校长,而是Snape自己。
校长的死,在各大HP论坛上炸开了锅,很多人说他是为了蒙蔽伏地魔而假死的,证据充分,比如校长对马尔福说的一句话,He cannot kill you if you are already dead,比如Snape上魔药课时曾经提到过的一种假死的药,比如海格无意中听到的校长与Snape的争吵,“Dumbledore told him flat out he’d agreed ter do it an’ that was all there was to it.”,甚至还有高手对比了前几册,得出结论说中了阿瓦达索命咒的人是中后即死的,而校长是飞了出去的……
而最具重量级的则是Wizard News的一个编辑Dave Haber,他甚至特地做了一个网站叫做Dumbledore is not dead,整理了一大堆线索和暗示,其中我认为最具说服力的是第6点,Fawkes’ Lament(凤凰的挽歌):
“Gulping, Madame Pomfrey pressed her fingers to her mouth, her eyes wide. Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before; a stricken lament of terrible beauty. ”(HBP pg 614/573)
Many minutes later, after all the retelling of the night’s affair, J.K. mentions Fawkes is still at it:
“They all fell silent. Fawkes’s lament was still echoing over the dark grounds outside. ”(HBP pg 621/579)
…but Harry’s thoughts move right on to other things, like wondering where Dumbledore’s body is now. Many minutes later still, as this meeting breaks up and Harry is following McGonagall up to what is now her office, J.K. interjects:“The corridors outside were deserted and the only sound was the distant phoenix song. ”(HBP pg 625/583)
Whatever it was he was doing, Fawkes was working hard at it, and not giving up. Yet we are supposed to believe, as in the title of this chapter, “The Phoenix Lament”, that it is only Dumbledore’s pet echoing everyone’s grief?
Are we so easily to forget that phoenix tears have powerful healing powers?
Significantly, it is the healer, Madame Pomfrey, who is brought to tears by the phoenix song. She knows the healing power of the phoenix well. She gulps with eyes wide. She recognizes something special is going on.
From these passages, it certainly seems that J.K. wants us to know that Fawkes is doing some healing! Perhaps Fawkes is not powerful enough to bring someone back from the Avada Kedavra, but what if Dumbledore was not really hit by an Avada Kedrava, and instead hit with half a spell, or a spell to make him appear dead (as explained in the clues above)?
正如上文所说的,极有可能,Snape对校长仅仅是喊出了“阿瓦达索命”这几个字,并非真的施了这个咒语,相反,他用无声咒施了一个效果看起来跟阿瓦达索命一样的咒语,而凤凰Fawkes一直一直地在唱歌,是在治疗校长,医院院长Pomfrey夫人正是因为想到了这一点,才有了一瞬间的失态。
……等等等等,这些隐含的细节都暗示了校长的死是他自己布下的一个局。
但无论如何,《哈利波特》中的死亡真是越来越多了,我最喜欢的小天狼星在《凤凰社》中死掉后,(也有人证据充分地说他是假死),我差点就不想再看《哈利波特》了,现在,连我最喜欢的校长也死了……
明年,《哈利波特》的最后一本到底会怎样?也许哈利会死,因为,当我看到Horcruxs(魂器)时,我就觉得也许哈利本身就是伏地魔的最后一个魂器。哈利真的会死吗,他的好朋友也会死吗?……
从2000年开始追《哈利波特》,明年就是完结篇了。六年了。拜托,不要再有人死了。…………