《哈利·波特》中的十五條人生哲理(上篇)

Everyone has a gift, even the person you think is a totAl bum. Look at what Harry’s aunt and uncle ended up discovering about him!

每個人都有天賦，甚至是那些你認爲非常吊兒郎當的人。看看哈利的姨夫姨媽，他們最終發現了他的了不起之處。

Revenge tends to only make you look bad. Harry may at times have tried to get his icky cousin into trouble, but it always backfired.

復仇只會讓自取其辱。哈利有時試圖讓他煩人的表哥入麻煩，但總是適得其反。

People may be following your progress (or your example) even if you don’t know it. Harry had no idea that so many people were interested in how he was doing before he headed out to Hogwarts for the first time.

即便你現在不知道，說不定以後很多人會跟隨你的腳步（或視你爲榜樣）。哈利來到霍格沃茲之前根本不知道會有那麼多人對他感興趣。

Fame may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Harry Potter arrived at Hogwarts with a reputation already in place. While it may have paid off in some ways, it also attracted the envy and negative attention of boys like Malfoy.

名氣不一定引致讚揚。哈利來到霍格沃茲時，他在魔法世界早已名聲大振了。但這會有不同的效果，比如這也招來了像馬爾福這樣的人的嫉妒。

People are complicated and it’s difficult to see all of their soul in one fell swoop. At first, Hermione seemed like a very uptight show-off. It took a long time for Harry and others to see what a good heart she had.

人是複雜的，一時間很難了解一個人的全部品質。最初，赫敏似乎很愛炫耀自己的聰明。哈利和其他人很久才發現她其實是個很好的人。

It’s easy to be a rival. It’s difficult to be a compassionate rival.

做別人的敵人很容易，做一個有同情心的敵人卻不容易。

Things are seldom as they appear. Hagrid seemed big and scary and his pets often seemed quite monstrous, but in fact Hagrid was one of the most trustworthy people at the school, and his pets were loving creatures.

人和事不都是他們表面上的那樣。海格又高達又嚇人，他的寵物都是些怪獸，但實際上他是哈利在學校最值得信任的朋友，他的寵物其實也都挺可愛的。

Alliances are important. There are a lot of alliances throughout the Harry Potter story. People create alliances for strength or to change the way things are.

盟友是重要的。在哈利·波特的故事裏有許多種不同的盟友。人們是爲了壯大力量或者改變事物而結盟的。