《HP三十五只猫头鹰的来信（未授权自译）又名：格林德沃与邓布利多的通信集》妞子酱

5、AD-GG

　　1952年8月4日，

　　亲爱的盖勒特，

　　我知道我应该等你来联系我。但是恐怕我现在处于一种劣势——纽蒙迦德超出我可以行使摄神取念的范围。我只能靠猜测来写信接近你了。

　　我记得你生闷气的样子，在我们共同度过的那几周里。你不高兴时会陡然离去，与世隔绝般地散发着阴郁气息，几个小时后又若无其事地回来。我想，过去数小时的闷气现今变成了数月？当我孑然一身时，时间总是变得格外漫长，只是这样的时光较之于你，我还是体会得太少了。回首往事，我并非是在嘲笑你。我觉得你生闷气的样子很是迷人——你不经意的情绪流露也是你魅力的一部分。

　　我知道最好放任你自己去消化这些情绪，但是我无法对你置之不理。我想这大概是我的过错吧，我总爱多管闲事干预他人。如果现在我们面对面，我想你一定会厉声斥责我的伪善并扬长而去。

　　是的，我写这封信是为了恳求你回来。不以一个著名巫师的身份，不以霍格沃茨教授的职称，不以任何我引以为傲的称号。仅仅是作为一个人，追根究底我们都只是凡人。你曾唤我这个老头为朋友。你尝试给我写信，我只能依靠想象，认为只是通信而已。但我对此非常开心。我愿意无比真诚地对你说，你永远有权力对我发脾气。

　　请相信我，我真的不恨你。还有，你是否也可以不再恨我呢？

　　谨致问候，

　　阿不思·邓布利多

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　　August 4th, 1952

　　Dear Gellert,

　　I know it would be better for me to wait for you to contact me. I'm afraid I'm at quite a disadvantage--Nurmengard is rather out of range for Legilimency. I can only guess at the best way to approach you now.

　　I remember your sulks, in those weeks we spent together. The way you'd leave abruptly if offended, cut yourself off, radiate darkness, come back a few hours later as if nothing was wrong. Hours have turned into months, I suppose? Time in isolation can stretch so, and I have experienced it only briefly, compared to you. And I do not say this to mock you. I found even your sulks intriguing--your wild flights of emotion were part of your charm.

　　And I know it would be better for me to leave you to it, but I cannot bring myself to simply let you be. It is one of my failings, I suppose, the tendency to over-stretch myself and meddle. And now, were we face to face, I suppose you would snap at me for mock humility and leave...

　　I come begging back to you, yes. Not as a famous wizard, not as a Hogwarts Professor, not as anything in which I might have pride. Merely as a man, for that is all we are in the end. You once called this old man friend. And you wrote me seeking, I can only imagine, simple correspondence. I would like that very much. And I speak in plain honesty, and you have every right to be angry with me.

　　I do not hate you. Could you bring yourself to believe that, to judge me fairly for it? Could you bring yourself not to hate me?

　　Regards,

　　Albus Dumbledore

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　　内心OS：是的，我承认我心软了，那么美好的过往怎么可能忘记呢！只是我不想刻意回忆，看在我主动哄你的份上，看在我都允许你对我生气的份上，不要不回信。