《HP官方资料翻译集（物品篇）》霁随心

23、分院帽

　　翻译参考了豆瓣上“ForReal”及知乎上“王忆文”翻译贴。
　　===============

　　【Pottermore中关于分院帽（Sorting Hat）的内容】
　　著名的霍格沃茨分院帽在每年开学的时候都会唱一系列歌曲来讲述它的起源。传说分院帽属于学校的四位创始人之一：戈德里克·格兰芬多；四位创始人共同对这顶帽子施了魔法，以保证它能根据四位创始人独有的偏好将学生们分入这四个以他们的名字命名的学院。
　　分院帽是大多数巫师见到过的最聪明的魔法物品之一了。它简直拥有着四位创始人的智慧，它能从帽檐边缘的裂缝说话，还精通摄神取念，这使它能够窥视戴帽人的大脑从而预言这个人的才能或情绪。它甚至还能回答戴帽人脑子里的想法。
　　分院帽还以从不承认它在对学生分类的过程中出过差错而闻名。哪怕有的斯莱特林学生表现出无私奉献，有的拉文克劳学生所有的考试都不及格，有的赫奇帕奇学生懒惰但学习天分极高，有的格兰芬多学生显露出胆怯畏缩，分院帽依然坚定坚持自己最初的决定。不过总的来说，在它分院的许多个世纪里，的确鲜有误判。
　　罗琳的想法：
　　在我对霍格沃茨最早的设定中并没有想到分院帽。我在许多种对学生分类的方式中犹豫斗争（因为我很早就想好了会有四个拥有不同特质的学院）。第一个进入我脑海的是一个精密的，稀奇古怪但不实用的机器，通过一系列魔法做分院决定，但我不喜欢这玩意：它一看就太复杂，又太简单。然后我想把四位创始人的雕像放在大堂里，在分院的时候活过来，在全校师生的观看下选择他们面前的学生。这个主意好一点儿，但还不是我要的那样。最后我列了一系列人们可以选择的方式：咪咪嘛嘛哄，短稻草，队长分院，帽子念名字——一顶会说话的帽子念名字——戴上一顶帽子——分院帽。

　　【Pottermore中关于帽窘（Hatstall）的内容】
　　这是一个对那些分院时间超过五分钟的学生的古老称呼。分院帽花这么长时间深思熟虑可非常不一般，这种情况也极其罕见，大概五十年一见。
　　在哈利·波特的同级学生当中，赫敏·格兰杰和纳威·隆巴顿最接近这种分院难题生。分院帽花了几乎四分钟犹豫该把赫敏分进拉文克劳还是格兰芬多。而纳威则是被以勇敢闻名的那个学院吓到了，要求把自己分到赫奇帕奇，但分院帽坚决将他分进格兰芬多。他们在脑海里无声地争辩，最后分院帽胜利了。
　　哈利所知的帽窘者只有米勒娃·麦格和彼得·佩迪鲁。前者让帽子花了五分半钟纠结应该将她分进拉文克劳还是格兰芬多；而对于彼得，分院帽在格兰芬多和斯莱特林之间考虑很久，才将其分入了前者。顽固得令人发指的分院帽仍然拒绝承认他关于彼得的决定可能是错误的，它（并不那么令人信服地）援引佩迪鲁临死前的表现作为证据。

　　【补充】
　　1、分院帽曾在为弗利维选择学院的时候在格兰芬多和拉文克劳之间犹豫了半天，最终把他分到了拉文克劳。所以麦格弗利维曾愉快地遐想也许他们年轻的时候如果不是因为这些很关键的时刻，两个人的位置会互换，米勒娃去当拉文克劳的院长，而弗利维教授去当格兰芬多的院长。

　　2、洛哈特差点被分进了斯莱特林，不过，最终还是勉强进入拉文克劳。

　　【Pottermore分院帽原文】
The famous Hogwarts Sorting Hat gives an account of its own genesis in a series of songs sung at the beginning of each school year. Legend has it that the hat once belonged to one of the four founders, Godric Gryffindor, and that it was jointly enchanted by all four founders to ensure that students would be sorted into their eponymous houses, which would be selected according to each founder's particular preferences in students.
The Sorting Hat is one of the cleverest enchanted objects most witches and wizards will ever meet. It literally contains the intelligence of the four founders, can speak (through a rip near its brim) and is skilled at Legilimency, which enables it to look into the wearer's head and divine his or her capabilities or mood. It can even respond to the thoughts of the wearer.
The Sorting Hat is notorious for refusing to admit it has made a mistake in its sorting of a student. On those occasions when Slytherins behave altruistically or selflessly, when Ravenclaws flunk all their exams, when Hufflepuffs prove lazy yet academically gifted and when Gryffindors exhibit cowardice, the Hat steadfastly backs its original decision. On balance, however, the Hat has made remarkably few errors of judgement over the many centuries it has been at work.
J.K. Rowling's thoughts
The Sorting Hat does not appear in my earliest plans for Hogwarts. I debated several different methods for sorting students (because I knew from early on that there would be four houses, all with very different qualities). The first was an elaborate, Heath Robinson-ish machine that did all kinds of magical things before reaching a decision, but I did not like it: it felt at once too complicated, and too easy. Next I placed four statues of the four founders in the Entrance Hall, which came alive and selected students from the throng in front of them while the school watched. This was better, but still not quite right. Finally, I wrote a list of the ways in which people can be chosen: eeny meeny miny mo, short straws, chosen by team captains, names out of a hat - names out of a talking hat - putting on a hat - the Sorting Hat.
【Pottermore帽窘原文】
An archaic Hogwarts term for any new student whose Sorting takes longer than five minutes. This is an exceptionally long time for the Sorting Hat to deliberate, and occurs rarely, perhaps once every fifty years.
Of Harry Potter’s contemporaries, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom came closest to being Hatstalls. The Sorting Hat spent nearly four minutes trying to decide whether it should place Hermione in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. In Neville's case, the Hat was determined to place him in Gryffindor: Neville, intimidated by that house’s reputation for bravery, requested a placing in Hufflepuff. Their silent wrangling resulted in triumph for the Hat.
The only true Hatstalls known personally to Harry Potter were Minerva McGonagall and Peter Pettigrew. The former caused the hat to agonise for five and a half minutes as to whether Minerva ought to go to Ravenclaw or Gryffindor; the latter was placed in Gryffindor after a long deliberation between that house and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat, which is infamously stubborn, still refuses to accept that its decision in the case of the latter may have been erroneous, citing the manner in which Pettigrew died as (dubious) evidence.