【哈利波特】赫奇帕奇欢迎信（中英对照）
赫奇帕奇欢迎信
【中文】
恭喜你！我是级长加布里埃·杜鲁门，很高兴能欢迎你来到赫奇帕奇学院。我们的院徽是獾，一种经常被低估的动物，因为它在受到攻击之前一直都很平静，但是一旦被激怒，它可以击退比自身大许多的动物，包括狼。我们的学院颜色是黄色和黑色，我们的公共休息室在地下一层，和厨房在同一条走廊上。
现在，有几件关于赫奇帕奇学院的事情你应该知道。首先，我们来解释一下一个一直关于我们的传言，说我们是最不聪明的学院。错。赫奇帕奇是最不喜欢吹嘘自己的学院，但是从我们这里走出过完全不少于其他学院的优秀的女巫和男巫。想要证据吗？你看格洛根·斯坦普，最受欢迎的魔法部部长之一。他是一个赫奇帕奇 - 还有爱特美茜娅·露芙金和杜格德·麦克费尔也是一样。然后我们还有世界权威的魔法生物学家，纽特·斯卡曼德；布里奇特·温洛克，十三世纪著名的算术占卜学家，她是第一个发现数字7的魔法属性的人，还有伍德克夫特的汉吉斯，是他创立了纯巫师村落霍格莫德，离霍格沃茨非常近。他们全都是赫奇帕奇。
所以，如你所见，从我们学院走出了这么多强大、杰出、勇敢的女巫和男巫们，但是，只是因为我们不对外宣扬，所以我们没有得到应得的声誉。
尤其是拉文克劳，他们认为任何一个取得杰出成就的人都是出自他们学院。我在三年级时曾因和一个拉文克劳的级长决斗惹上过一个大麻烦，因为他固执地认为布里奇特·温洛克来自他的学院，而不是我的。我本来应该关上一个星期的禁闭，但是斯普劳特教授在给了我一个警告之后就放我走了，还给了我一盒椰子冰淇淋。
赫奇帕奇都是值得信赖并忠实的。我们不会大放厥词，但我们也不好惹；就像我们的院徽獾一样，在所有敌人面前，我们会保护自己，朋友以及家人。没有人能威胁我们。
但是，赫奇帕奇确实在某一方面有所欠缺。我们是这所学校里最少走出黑巫师的学院。当然，你知道斯莱特林会出现一些坏人，好像他们从未听说过公平竞争，比起努力更喜欢作弊，但是甚至是格兰芬多（与我们相处最好的学院）也出现过一些狡猾的人物。
还有什么是你需要知道的？哦，对了，公共休息室的入口隐藏在厨房那条走廊右手边一个偏僻的角落的一堆大桶中。用“赫尔加·赫奇帕奇”的节奏敲击第二排中间下数第二个大桶，然后盖子就会旋转打开。我们是霍格沃茨里唯一拥有抵御可能的入侵者的方法的学院。如果敲错了盖子，或者敲错了节奏，非法入侵者会被倒一身的醋。
你会听到其他学院炫耀他们的安保装置，但是实际上一千多年以来，赫奇帕奇的公共休息室和宿舍从来没被外人见到过。就像獾一样，我们明确地知道如何隐藏 - 以及如何保护我们自己。
一旦你打开了大桶，爬进去沿着后面的通道走，然后你就会来到最温暖舒适的公共休息室。它是一间圆形的屋子，充满了泥土的气息，天花板很低；这里一直充满阳光，圆形的窗户让你能看到窗外摇曳的小草和蒲公英。
这里有许多磨得发亮的铜饰，还有许多植物，有的从天花板上垂落下来，有的则是在窗台上。我们的院长，波莫娜·斯普劳特教授，负责教授草药学，她带来了最有趣的植物标本（有一些会跳舞和讲话）来装饰我们的房间—— 这也是赫奇帕奇经常很擅长草药学的原因之一。我们厚重松软的沙发和椅子被装饰成黄色和黑色，我们的宿舍可以通过公共休息室墙上的圆形大门到达。黄铜灯会投射温暖的灯光在我们的四柱大床上，所有的床上都铺着拼色的被子，如果你的脚冷，墙上还挂着黄铜的暖床器。
我们的学院幽灵是所有人中最友善的：胖修士。你可以很容易地认出他；他有点微胖，穿着僧人的长袍，如果你迷了路或者陷入任何麻烦，他会对你很有帮助。
我觉得应该差不多了。我必须说，我希望你们中的一些人是好的魁地奇球手。最近的魁地奇比赛中，我觉得赫奇帕奇并没有达到我想要的程度。
你们可以安心地睡觉。我们的宿舍将保护我们免收风暴的侵袭；住在塔里的学生有的夜晚会很难入睡，我们从来不会。
再说一次：恭喜你成为最友善最正直最顽强的学院的一员。
【英文】
Congratulations!I’m Prefect Gabriel Truman, and I’m delighted to welcome you to HUFFLEPUFF HOUSE. Our emblem is the badger,an animal that is often underestimated,because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked,can fight off animals much larger than itself, including wolves. Our house colours are yellow and black, and our common room lies one floor below the ground, on the same corridor as the kitchens.
Now, there are a few things you should know about Hufflepuff house. First of all, let’s deal with a perennial myth about the place, which is that we’re the least clever house. WRONG.Hufflepuff is certainly the least boastful house, but we’ve produced just as many brilliant witches and wizards as any other. Want proof? Look up Grogan Stump, one of the most popular Ministers for Magic of all time. He was a Hufflepuff – as were the successful Ministers Artemesia Lufkin and Dugald McPhail. Then there’s the world authority on magical creatures,Newt Scamander; Bridget Wenlock, the famous thirteenth-century Arithmancer who first discovered the magical properties of the number seven, and Hengist of Woodcroft, who founded the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade, which lies very near Hogwarts School. Hufflepuffs all.
So, as you can see, we’ve produced more than our fair share of powerful, brilliant and daring witches and wizards, but, just because we don’t shout about it, we don’t get the credit we deserve.
Ravenclaws, in particular, assume that any outstanding achiever must have come from their house. I got into big trouble during my third year for duelling a Ravenclaw prefect who insisted that Bridget Wenlock had come from his house, not mine. I should have got a week of detentions, but Professor Sprout let me off with a warning and a box of coconut ice.
Hufflepuffs are trustworthy and loyal. We don’t shoot our mouths off, but cross us at your peril; like our emblem, the badger, we will protect ourselves, our friends and our families against all-comers. Nobody intimidates us.
However, it’s true that Hufflepuff is a bit lacking in one area. We’ve produced the fewest Dark wizards of any house in this school.
Of course, you’d expect Slytherin to churn out evil-doers, seeing as they’ve never heard of fair play and prefer cheating over hard work any day, but even Gryffindor (the house we get on best with) has produced a few dodgy characters.
What else do you need to know? Oh yes, the entrance to the common room is concealed in a stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor. Tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff’,and the lid will swing open. We are the only house at Hogwarts that also has a repelling device for would-be intruders. If the wrong lid is tapped, or if the rhythm of the tapping is wrong, the illegal entrant is doused in vinegar.
You will hear other houses boast of their security arrangements, but it so happens that in more than a thousand years, the Hufflepuff common room and dormitories have never been seen by outsiders. Like badgers, we know exactly how to lie low – and how to defend ourselves.
Once you’ve opened the barrel, crawl inside and along the passageway behind it, and you will emerge into the cosiest common room of them all. It is round and earthy and low-ceilinged; it always feels sunny, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions.
There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills. Our Head of house, Professor Pomona Sprout, is Head of Herbology, and she brings the most interesting specimens (some of which dance and talk) to decorate our room – one reason why Hufflepuffs are often very good at Herbology. Our overstuffed sofas and chairs are upholstered in yellow and black, and our dormitories are reached through round doors in the walls of the common room. Copper lamps cast a warm light over our four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts, and copper bed warmers hang on the walls, should you have cold feet.
Our house ghost is the friendliest of them all: the Fat Friar. You’ll recognise him easily enough; he’s plump and wears monk’s robes, and he’s very helpful if you get lost or are in any kind of trouble.
I think that’s nearly everything. I must say, I hope some of you are good Quidditch players. Hufflepuff hasn’t done as well as I’d like in the Quidditch tournament lately.
You should sleep comfortably. We’re protected from storms and wind down in our dormitories; we never have the disturbed nights those in the towers sometimes experience.
And once again: congratulations on becoming a member of the friendliest, most decent and most tenacious house of them all.
