《HP官方资料翻译集（物品篇）》霁随心

17、飞路粉&飞路网

　　翻译参考了中文哈利波特维基百科和pottermore帖子《【翻译】<火焰杯>第四章[回到陋居] 【飞路网】》与《【翻译】Pottermore密室第四章关于飞路粉的新资料》

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　　【飞路粉（Floo Powder）】
　　飞路粉是在13世纪被伊格内塔·威史密斯（Ignatia Wildsmith）发明的。它的制造被严格地控制着。在英国只有飞路嘭公司（Floo-Pow）一家特许生产商，这家公司的总部位于对角巷，但敲门从来不会有人应答。
　　从来都没有人反映过飞路粉的短缺，也没有任何人知道它的制造者是谁。它的价格已经有一百年未曾变过了：两西可一勺。每个巫师家庭里都有飞路粉的储备，一般都是方便地放在壁炉台上的一个盒子或花瓶里。
　　飞路粉的确切组成一直是一个被严密保守着的秘密。那些想自己制造的人从来没有成功过。圣芒戈魔法伤病医院每年都会收治至少一例被他们称为“伪飞路（Faux Floo）”伤害的患者——也就是说，有人将自制的粉末扔进了炉火，并造成了灾难性的结果。圣芒戈发言人、愤怒的治疗师卢瑟福·波克（Rutherford Poke）在2010年说道：“两西可一勺，朋友们，所以别再贪便宜了，别再把如尼纹蛇毒牙粉扔进火里，把自己炸出烟囱了！如果再有屁股烧焦的巫师来，我发誓我绝不给他治。只要两西可一勺啊！”

　　【飞路网（The Floo Network）】
　　飞路粉已经被使用了好几个世纪，尽管在某种程度上说并不舒服，但仍然有许多优点。首先，与飞天扫帚不同，人们可以放心地使用飞路粉而不用担心破坏《国际保密法》。第二，与幻影移形不同，使用飞路粉很少或者根本不会造成严重的伤害。第三，儿童、老年人和体弱者也可以通过飞路网旅行。
　　几乎所有的巫师家庭都连接在飞路网里。尽管一个简单的咒语就可以让壁炉与飞路网断开连接，但要想将壁炉接入飞路网则需要魔法部的许可。这样的方式能够更有效地管理飞路服务，并防止麻瓜家庭的壁炉在不经意间被连入飞路网（但在紧急情况下可以建立临时连接）。
　　除了家用的壁炉，英国大约有1000多个壁炉连接了飞路网，其中包括魔法部、各种巫师商店和旅馆的壁炉。霍格沃茨的壁炉通常情况下不会与飞路网连接，但在教职工不知情的情况下，有个别壁炉可能会被私自链接。
　　虽然总体上说飞路粉是可靠的，但事故也会偶尔发生。由于炉灰、热量和恐慌，有时候在飞路粉的火焰中大声而清晰地喊出目的地的名字并不是那么容易。
　　最臭名昭著的一次由于目的地错误而发生的事故发生在1855年。女巫维奥莱特·提尔曼（Violet Tillyman）和丈夫发大吵一架后，哭着跳进客厅的炉火，一边呜咽着打嗝，一边说她想回她妈妈的住处。
　　几个星期之后，当家里再也找不到干净的锅，袜子也亟待清洗，艾伯特·提尔曼意识到该让妻子回家了，便使用飞路网来到岳母家。让他惊讶的是，岳母却说维奥莱特从来没回来过。多疑又有些霸道艾伯特听到这个消息以后大发脾气，冲进房子搜了个遍，但他的岳母说的似乎是真的。在张贴大量寻人启事、并在《预言家日报》上刊发文章后，维奥莱特还是没被找到。似乎没有人知道她在哪里，也没有人见她从哪个壁炉中走出来。维奥莱特失踪后的那几个月，人们害怕使用飞路网，担心自己也会凭空消失。但随着时间的流逝，人们对于维奥莱特的记忆渐渐淡忘，加上再也没有其他人消失，所以魔法社会又照常继续使用飞路网。艾伯特·提尔曼生气地回到家，开始学习清洁和织补咒语，而且再也没用过飞路网，担心妻子身上发生的事会再次出现。
　　直到二十年后，艾伯特死后，维奥莱特·迪里曼才又再次出现。原来，由于在使用飞路网时语无伦次的说话方式，她没有出现在母亲家的壁炉中，而是到了迈伦·奥泽豪斯（Myron Otherhaus）家的壁炉里，而迈伦是一位生活在伯里-圣埃德蒙兹的英俊巫师。尽管维奥莱特满脸泪痕，浑身炉灰，污迹斑斑，当她摇摇晃晃地从他的壁炉里爬出来，迈伦仍对她一见钟情。那之后，迈伦、维奥莱特和他们的七个孩子一直过着幸福的生活。

　　罗琳的想法：
　　“飞路（Floo）”一词出自于“烟道（flue）”，一种你可以在烟囱上找到的东西。别问我烟道具体是什么，因为我也不知道。我只知道这东西的存在，却不知道它究竟是什么。我需要一种年轻的男巫女巫们旅行的方式，因为我之前创造了造成各种不便的《国际保密法》，这使得孩子们很难用魔法的方式四处旅行，尤其是长距离的旅行。所以我想他们需要一种非常谨慎的东西，这就是飞路网的由来，通过这种方式他们可以在房子之间来回穿梭而不被麻瓜看到。不过让它有点儿不好使用会显得比较滑稽，所以你很容易发现你走错了地方。

　　补充：
　　如果在撒入飞路粉之后仅将自己的头部伸入火焰，那么也可以利用飞路网与身处另一个地方的人直接交谈。小天狼星在哈利的四年级和五年级时曾这样做过。飞路网也可以用来传送无生命的物体。比如，韦斯莱夫人在1994年曾用火钳夹住一块黄油面包送入正在通过飞路网与韦斯莱先生交谈的阿莫斯·迪戈里口中。

　　【POTTEMORE上关于飞路粉的原文】
Floo powder was invented by Ignatia Wildsmith in the thirteenth century. Its manufacture is strictly controlled. The only licensed producer in Britain is Floo-Pow, a company whose Headquarters is in Diagon Alley, and who never answer their front door.
No shortage of Floo powder has ever been reported, nor does anybody know anyone who makes it. Its price has remained constant for one hundred years: two Sickles a scoop. Every wizard household carries a stock of Floo powder, usually conveniently located in a box or vase on the mantelpiece.
The precise composition of Floo powder is a closely guarded secret. Those who have tried to ‘make their own’ have been universally unsuccessful. At least once a year, St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries reports what they call a ‘Faux Floo’ injury – in other words, somebody has thrown a homemade powder onto a fire and suffered the consequences. As irate Healer and St Mungo’s spokeswizard, Rutherford Poke, said in 2010: ‘It’s two Sickles a scoop, people, so stop being cheap, stop throwing powdered Runespoor fangs on the fire and stop blowing yourselves out of the chimney! If one more wizard comes in here with a burned backside, I swear I won’t treat him. It’s two Sickles a scoop!’
【POTTEMORE上关于飞路网的原文】
In use for centuries, the Floo Network, while somewhat uncomfortable, has many advantages. Firstly, unlike broomsticks, the Network can be used without fear of breaking the International Statute of Secrecy. Secondly, unlike Apparition, there is little to no danger of serious injury. Thirdly, it can be used to transport children, the elderly and the infirm.
Nearly every witch or wizard home is connected to the Floo Network. While a fireplace may be disconnected by the use of a simple spell, connection requires the permission of the Ministry of Magic, which regulates the Floo service and prevents Muggle fireplaces becoming inadvertently joined up (although temporary connection can be arranged in emergencies).
In addition to domestic fireplaces, there are around a thousand fireplaces across Britain connected to the Floo Network, including those at the Ministry of Magic, and various wizarding shops and inns. The fireplaces of Hogwarts are not generally connected, although there have been occasions when one or more has been tampered with, often without the staff’s knowledge.
Although generally reliable, mistakes can happen. Speaking the name of the destination loudly and clearly upon entering the Floo flames is sometimes difficult, due to ash, heat and panic. The most notorious instance of accidental misdirection happened in 1855 when, after a particularly nasty row with her husband, witch Violet Tillyman leapt into the living room fire and cried, between sobs and hiccups, that she wanted to go to her mother’s house.
Several weeks later, with no clean pots in the house and his socks in urgent need of washing, her husband Albert decided that it was time she came home, and took the Floo Network to his mother-in-law’s. To his surprise, she claimed that Violet had never arrived. Albert, a suspicious man and a bit of a bully, raged, stormed and searched the house, but his mother-in-law appeared to be telling the truth. A poster campaign and a series of articles in the Daily Prophet later, Violet had still not been found. Nobody seemed to know where she was and nobody had seen her come out of any other fireplace. For several months after her disappearance, people were afraid to take the Floo Network, in case it simply vanished them into thin air. However, time passed, memories of Violet faded, and nobody else disappeared, so the wizarding community continued as usual. Albert Tillyman returned grumpily to his house, learned cleaning and darning spells, and never used the Floo Network again for fear of what it had done to his wife.
It was not until twenty years later, after Albert’s death, that Violet Tillyman resurfaced. Due to the incoherent way she had spoken when she had entered the Floo Network, she had not emerged from her mother’s fireplace, but that of Myron Otherhaus, a handsome wizard who lived in Bury St Edmunds. In spite of Violet’s tear-stained, ash-covered and blotchy appearance, it had been love at first sight when she toppled out of his fire, and Myron, Violet and their seven children lived happily ever after.
J.K. Rowling thoughts
‘Floo’ came from the flue that you find on a chimney and don’t ask me to tell you exactly what a flue is, because I don’t know. I just know it exists, but I’m not sure what it does exactly. I needed a way for particularly young witches and wizards to travel around because I’d created the International Statute of Secrecy, which was inconvenient, so immediately that made it quite difficult for them to move around, particularly over long distances, by magical means. So I thought they need something very discreet, and that’s how the Floo Network came about, so it was a way of moving from house to house without ever being seen by Muggles. But it was fun and comical to have it a little bit difficult to use, so that you could easily make a mistake in where you ended up.