pottermore最新公布麦格教授的悲惨身世(英文版)

第一篇：pottermore最新公布麦格教授的悲惨身世(英文版)

pottermore最新公布麦格教授的悲惨身世（英文版）

Minerva McGonagall was the first child, and only daughter, of a Scottish Presbyterian minister and a Hogwarts-educated witch.She grew up in the Highlands of Scotland in the early twentieth century, and only gradually became aware that there was something strange, both about her own abilities, and her parents’ marriage.Minerva’s father, the Reverend Robert McGonagall, had become captivated by the high-spirited Isobel Ross, who lived in the same village.Like his neighbours, Robert believed that Isobel attended a select ladies’ boarding school in England.In fact, when Isobel vanished from her home for months at a time, it was to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that she went.Aware that her parents(a witch and wizard)would frown on a connection with the serious young Muggle, Isobel kept their burgeoning relationship a secret.By the time she was eighteen, she had fallen in love with Robert.Unfortunately, she had not found the courage to tell him what she was.The couple eloped, to the fury of both sets of parents.Now estranged from her family, Isobel could not bring herself to mar the bliss of the honeymoon by telling her smitten new husband that she had graduated top of her class in Charms at Hogwarts, nor that she had been Captain of the school Quidditch team.Isobel and Robert moved into a manse(minister’s house)on the outskirts of Caithness, where the beautiful Isobel proved surprisingly adept at making the most of the minister’s tiny salary.The birth of the young couple’s first child, Minerva, proved both a joy and a crisis.Missing her family, and the magical community she had given up for love, Isobel insisted on naming her newborn daughter after her own grandmother, an immensely talented witch.The outlandish name raised eyebrows in the community in which she lived, and the Reverend Robert McGonagall found it difficult to explain his wife’s choice to his parishioners.Furthermore, he was alarmed by his wife’s moodiness.Friends assured him that women were often emotional after the birth of a baby, and that Isobel would soon be herself again.Isobel, however, became more and more withdrawn, often secluding herself with Minerva for days at a time.Isobel later told her daughter that she had displayed small, but unmistakable, signs of magic from her earliest hours.Toys that had been left on upper shelves were found in her cot.The family cat appeared to do her bidding before she could talk.Her father’s bagpipes were occasionally heard to play themselves from distant rooms, a phenomenon that made the infant Minerva chuckle.Isobel was torn between pride and fear.She knew that she must confess the truth to Robert before he witnessed something that would alarm him.At last, in response to Robert’s patient questioning, Isobel burst into tears, retrieved her wand from the locked box under her bed and showed him what she was.Although Minerva was too young to remember that night, its aftermath left her with a bitter understanding of the complications of growing up with magic in a Muggle world.Although Robert McGonagall loved his wife no less upon discovering that she was a witch, he was profoundly shocked by her revelation, and by the fact that she had kept such a secret from him for so long.What was more, he, who prided himself on being an upright and honest man, was now drawn into a life of secrecy that was quite foreign to his nature.Isobel explained, through her sobs, that she(and their daughter)were bound by the International Statute of Secrecy, and that they must conceal the truth about themselves, or face the fury of the Ministry of Magic.Robert also quailed at the thought of how the localswould feel about having a witch as their Minister’s wife.Love endured, but trust had been broken between her parents, and Minerva, a clever and observant child, saw this with sadness.Two more children, both sons, were born to the McGonagalls, and both, in due course, revealed magical ability.Minerva helped her mother explain to Malcolm and Robert Junior that they must not flaunt their magic, and aided her mother in concealing from their father the accidents and embarrassments their magic sometimes caused.Minerva was very close to her Muggle father, whom in temperament she resembled more than her mother.She saw with pain how much he struggled with the family’s strange situation.She sensed, too, how much of a strain it was for her mother to fit in with the all-Muggle village, and how much she missed the freedom of being with her kind, and of exercising her considerable talents.Minerva never forgot how much her mother cried, when the letter of admittance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrived on Minerva’s eleventh birthday;she knew that Isobel was sobbing, not only out of pride, but also out of envy.School Career

As is often the case where the young witch or wizard comes from a family who has struggled with its magical identity, Hogwarts was, for Minerva McGonagall, a place of joyful release and freedom.Minerva drew unusual attention to herself on her very first evening, when she was revealed to be a Hatstall.After five and a half minutes, the Sorting Hat, which had been vacillating between the houses of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, placed Minerva in the latter.(In later years, this circumstance was a subject of gentle humour between Minerva and her colleague Filius Flitwick, over whom the Sorting Hat suffered the same confusion, but reached the opposite conclusion.The two Heads of house were amused to think that they might, but for those crucial moments in their youths, have exchanged positions).Minerva was quickly recognised as the most outstanding student of her year, with a particular talent for Transfiguration.As she progressed through the school, she demonstrated that she had inherited both her mother’s talents and her father’s cast-iron moral sense.Minerva’s school career overlapped by two years with that of Pomona Sprout, later Head of Hufflepuff House, and the two women enjoyed an excellent relationship both then, and in later years.By the end of her education at Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall had achieved an impressive record: top grades in O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s, Prefect, Head Girl, and winner of the Transfiguration Today Most Promising Newcomer award.Under the guidance of her inspirational Transfiguration teacher, Albus Dumbledore, she had managed to become an Animagus;her animal form, with its distinctive markings(tabby cat, square spectacles markings around eyes)were duly logged in the Ministry of Magic’s Animagus Registry.Minerva was also, like her mother, a gifted Quidditch player, although a nasty fall in her final year(a foul during the Gryffindor versus Slytherin game which would decide the Cup winner)left her with concussion, several broken ribs and a lifelong desire to see Slytherin crushed on the Quidditch pitch.Though she gave up Quidditch on leaving Hogwarts, the innately competitive Professor McGonagall later took a keen interest in the fortunes of her house team, and retained a keen eye for Quidditch talent.Early Heartbreak!

Upon graduation from Hogwarts, Minerva returned to the manse to enjoy one last summer with her family before setting out for London, where she had been offered a position at the Ministry of Magic(Department of Magical Law Enforcement).These months were to prove some of the most difficult of Minerva’s life, for it was then, aged only eighteen, that she proved herself truly her mother’s daughter, by falling head-over-heels in love with a Muggle boy.It was the first and only time in Minerva McGonagall’s life that she might have been said to lose her head.Dougal McGregor was the handsome, clever and funny son of a local farmer.Though less beautiful than Isobel, Minerva was clever and witty.Dougal and Minerva shared a sense of humour, argued fiercely, and suspected mysterious depths in each other.Before either of them knew it, Dougal was on one knee in a ploughed field, proposing, and Minerva was accepting him.She went home, intending to tell her parents of her engagement, yet found herself unable to do so.All that night she lay awake, thinking about her future.Dougal did not know what she, Minerva, truly was, any more than her father had known the truth about Isobel before they had married.Minerva had witnessed at close quarters the kind of marriage she might have if she wed Dougal.It would be the end of all her ambitions;it would mean a wand locked away, and children taught to lie, perhaps even to their own father.She did not fool herself that Dougal McGregor would accompany her to London, while she went to work every day at the Ministry.He was looking forward to inheriting his father’s farm.Early next morning, Minerva slipped from her parents’ house and went to tell Dougal that she had changed her mind, and could not marry him.Mindful of the fact that if she broke the International Statute of Secrecy she would lose the job at the Ministry for which she was giving him up, she could give him no good reason for her change of heart.She left him devastated, and set out for London three days later.Ministry Career

Though undoubtedly her feelings for the Ministry of Magic were coloured by the fact that she had recently suffered an emotional crisis, Minerva McGonagall did not much enjoy her new home and workplace.Some of her co-workers had an engrained anti-Muggle bias which, given her adoration of her Muggle father, and her continuing love for Dougal McGregor, she deplored.Though a most efficient and gifted employee, and fond of her much older boss, Elphinstone Urquart, Minerva was unhappy in London, and found that she missed Scotland.Finally, after two years at the Ministry, she was offered a prestigious promotion, yet found herself turning it down.She sent an owl to Hogwarts, asking whether she might be considered for a teaching post.The owl returned within hours, offering her a job in the Transfiguration department, under Head of Department, Albus Dumbledore.Friendship with Albus Dumbledore

The school greeted Minerva McGonagall’s return with delight.Minerva threw herself into her work, proving herself a strict but inspirational teacher.If she kept letters from Dougal McGregor locked in a box under her bed, this was(she told herself firmly)better than keeping her wand locked there.Nevertheless, it was a shock to learn from the oblivious Isobel(in the middle of a chatty letter of local news)that Dougal had married the daughter of another farmer.Albus Dumbledore discovered Minerva in tears in her classroom late that evening, and she confessed the whole story to him.Albus Dumbledore offered both comfort and wisdom, and told Minerva some of his own family history, previously unknown to her.The confidences exchanged that night between two intensely private and reserved characters were to form the basis of a lasting mutual esteem and friendship.Marriage"

Through all her early years at Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall remained on terms of friendship with her old boss at the Ministry, Elphinstone Urquart.He came to visit her while on holiday to Scotland, and to her great surprise and embarrassment, proposed marriage in Madam Puddifoot’s teashop.Still in love with Dougal McGregor, Minerva turned him down.Elphinstone, however, had never ceased to love her, nor to propose every now and then, even though she continued to refuse him.The death of Dougal McGregor, however, although traumatic, seemed to free Minerva.Shortly after Voldemort’s first defeat, Elphinstone, now white-haired, proposed again during a summertime stroll around the lake in the Hogwarts grounds.This time Minerva accepted.Elphinstone, now retired, was beside himself with joy, and purchased a small cottage in Hogsmeade for the pair of them, whence Minerva could travel easily to work every day.Known to successive generations of students as ‘Professor McGonagall,’ Minervaannounced that she would be keeping her own name upon marriage.Traditionalists sniffedexcepting perhaps Albus Dumbledore-ever realised how much she suffered.

第二篇：pottermore最新公布麦格教授的悲惨身世(中文版)

pottermore最新公布麦格教授的悲惨身世（中文版）

翻译 by 小怪

早年岁月

作为一名苏格兰长老派教会的牧师和一名女巫的孩子，米勒娃麦格排行大，而且是家里唯一的女儿。二十世纪期，她在苏格兰高地长大，并且逐渐意识到自己具备的不同寻常的能力，以及父母的婚姻中的奇特之处。

当初，米勒娃的父亲（牧师罗伯特麦格）被住在同一村庄的生气勃勃的女孩伊莎贝尔罗斯所吸引。像其他村庄的居民一样，罗伯特以为伊莎贝尔在英国上流女子寄宿学校上学。事实上，伊莎贝尔离开家连续几个月去上的却是霍格沃茨魔法学校。

意识到都是巫师的父母不会赞成她和麻瓜男孩交往，伊莎贝尔向父母隐瞒了她和罗伯特正迅速发展的关系。当她18岁的时候，她与罗伯特坠入爱河。但是她不敢告诉罗伯特她真实的身份。

俩人选择私奔，并且引发双方父母极大的愤怒。已经和原来的家庭疏远了，伊莎贝尔生怕告诉丈夫真相后会破坏了蜜月的快乐，她没法和正处在热恋中的丈夫说，她以魔咒课第一名的成绩从霍格沃茨毕业，或者她曾经是校魁地奇队的队长。蜜月之后，伊莎贝尔和罗伯特搬进了凯斯内斯郡郊区一栋牧师住宅里，凭借罗伯特那可怜巴巴的牧师津贴，伊莎贝尔令人惊讶地显示了她的理家才能。（个人认为可能和会魔法有点关系）

他们第一个孩子米勒娃的出生让这个家陷入欢乐与危机之中。伊莎贝尔怀念她原来的家庭，以及她为了爱情放弃而的魔法世界，她坚持给刚出生的女儿起名为米勒娃来纪念她自己的祖母，后者是一位法力强大的女巫。她所居住的教区对这个具有异域风的名字感到奇怪，而作为教区牧师的罗伯特麦格也不知道如何向教民们解释他夫人的决定。此外，罗伯开始担心他妻子的喜怒无常。朊友们宽慰他说产后的女人变得情绪化是正常现象，而且伊莎贝尔很快就会好转。

然而伊莎贝尔不仅没有恢复，反而变得越来越孤僻，甚至经常带着米勒娃消失几天。后来，伊莎贝尔告诉米勒娃她在刚出生没多久就开始显示虽然很小但很明显的魔法迹象:被放在架子高层的玩具蹊跷地出现在婴儿摇篮里，她还不会说话就可以命令家里养的猫，还有她父亲的风笛有时候会在没人的房间里自己吹响，这经常惹起小米勒娃一阵咯咯的笑声。对于米勒娃显示的魔法迹象，伊莎贝尔既感到骄傲又感到恐惧。她知道罗伯特感到警觉之前她必须得向他坦白一切。最后，在罗伯特耐心的询问之下，伊莎贝尔突然痛哭起来，然后从床下锁着的盒子里抽出魔杖，向他展示她究竟是谁。

虽然米勒娃那时候太小并不会记得那个夜晚，但是这件事的余波一直影响着她，让她痛苦地理解到身为一名巫师却成长在麻瓜世界这件事有多么复杂。虽然罗伯特麦格对妻子的爱意并没有一分减少，但是他被极大地震惊到了，不仅因为她是女巫，而且她竟然瞒了自己这么长时间。此外，他是一个坦白直率的人，并为此感到自豪，但是现在他却要违背自己的本性，过起一种遮遮掩掩的生活。那天晚上，伊莎贝尔哭着告诉他，她（和他们的女儿）受到国际保密法的约束必须隐瞒他们的身份，不然将会受到魔法部的责罚。罗伯特本人也惧怕当地人——大多严厉正经，墨守成规而且思想保守——对于他们的牧师有个女巫妻子会怎么想。俩人之间爱情仍在持续，但是信任土崩瓦解。米勒娃是一个很聪明很善于观察的孩子，她将父母的悲伤看在眼里。等到两个弟弟出世后（因为母亲是女巫的原因，所以都具有魔法能力），米勒娃帮助母亲向马尔科姆和小罗伯特解释为什么绝对不可以夸耀他们的魔法，米勒娃也会帮忙向父亲隐瞒一些由于他们魔法而引起的一些意外和尴尬。

米勒娃和父亲关系非常亲密,性格上她更像父亲。她目睹了父亲因为他们家庭的特殊性而承受的痛苦。她也能感受到她母亲为了能够适应在全是麻瓜的村庄里的生活而感到的身心俱疲，她同时非常渴望可以自由地与她的同类相处以及施展她的才华。米勒娃永远也不会忘记当她11岁生日那天，她收到霍格沃茨魔法学院的录取信的时候，她母亲的泪流满面，她知道伊莎贝尔哭泣不仅出于骄傲，还出于羡慕。

学校生活

像其他类似来自对魔法身份万分纠结的家庭的年轻男女巫师一样，霍格沃茨对于米勒娃来说是一个充满解脱和自（百度）由的地方。米勒娃在她来这里的第一天晚上分院的时候就吸引了别人的目光。分院帽花了5分半钟在格兰芬多和拉文克劳之间徘徊不定，最后选择了前者。（在之后的岁月里，这件事成了米勒娃和她同事弗利维教授之间的一个小笑话，分院帽在为弗利维选择学院的时候也犹豫了半天，但是却做了相反的决定，把他分到了拉文克劳。这两位学院的院长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）

米勒娃很快就成了同级中最出色的学生，她尤其擅长变形术。随着学校生活的进行，她开始展示出她从母亲那里继承的才华和从父亲那里继承的铸铁般坚定的道德感。米勒娃有两年和波莫纳斯普劳特共校，后者之后成了赫奇伯奇的院长，在以后的岁月中，两位女性之间保持极好的关系。

在毕业之前，米勒娃取得了惊人的成绩：OWLs和NEWLs年级第一，级长，女学生会主席，当代变形术最有前途的新人奖获得者。在启发人的老师邓布利多教授的指导下，她成为了一名带有很明显的记号的魔法部注册阿尼玛格斯（虎斑猫，眼睛周围是方形眼镜的条纹）。像她的母亲一样，米勒娃是一个很有天分的魁地奇球员，七年级时一次很严重的坠地事故（和斯莱特林争夺魁地奇杯时对方的犯规行为）使她脑震荡，断了几根肋骨并且此生极其盼望斯莱特林能够输个惨败。虽然她在离开学校后放弃了魁地奇，但是好强天性让麦格教授对自己学院寄与厚望，而且留意为球队物色优秀队员。

早年心碎的经历

毕业之后，米勒娃回到原来的牧师住宅度夏，她打算之后搬去伦敤生活，因为魔法部（执行司？）向她提供了一份工作。这个夏天给她到来了许多痛苦。那时候才18岁的米勒娃重蹈母亲的覆辙，完完全全地与一个麻瓜男孩坠入爱河。这事米勒娃麦格第一次也是唯一一次失去理智，道格迈克格雷格是一个既英俊聪明，又有趣的一个当地农场主的儿子。虽然不如伊莎贝尔美丽，米勒娃既聪明又智慧。俩人有一种共同的幽默感，经常激烈地争论问题，而且相互探测对方的神秘感（这句话我觉得意思是两个人对于对方都是充满神秘感的，而且互相很感兴趣）。两个人还没有意识到怎么回事，道格就单膝跪在刚刚翻过的土地上，求婚，米勒娃答应了。

她回到家，正打算告诉她父母，却发现她不能。那天晚上她彻夜未眠，思耂着她的未来。道格对她身份的了解并不比婚前她父亲对伊莎贝拉的了解多，米勒娃近距离地目睹过了她父母的可悲的婚姻生活，如果她嫁给了道格那也将成为她的婚姻生活。她所有的抱负都将终结。而且那将意味着锁起来的魔杖和教孩子去说谎，甚至对他们的父亲说谎。她不会自欺欺人地以为道格迈克格雷格会陪她去伦敤。他正期盼着继承他父亲的农场。

第二天早上，米勒娃从家里溜出来，告诉道格她改变了主意，她将不会嫁给他。想起她如果违反了国际保密法，可能连魔法部的工作也失去，她甚至给不出道格分手的原因。她走了，留下道格身心憔悴，三天后去往伦敤。

魔法部生涯

虽然毫无疑问她对于魔法部的感情会受到她最近分手的影响，米勒娃麦格本身也不喜欢她的新家和工作环境，因为一些同事对麻瓜带着强烈的歧视与偏见，她喜欢麻瓜父亲，而且仍然爱着道格麦格格雷格,她对自己的决定感到遗憾。她是一名效率很高很有天赋的职员，而且很喜爱上司 Elphinstone Urquart,但是米勒娃在伦敤仍然感到很不开心，她思念苏格兰。最终，在魔法部呆了两年之后，她得到了一个很大的升职机会，却拒绝了。她寄了封信给霍格沃茨，询问她是否可以被耂虑够格做教师，不到几个小时回信就来了，向她提供一个变形术部门的工作，回信人是该部门的主管，邓布利多。（按大学里面应该是变形术系，老邓是该系负责人….）

与邓布利多的友谊

米勒娃重返学校后感到很愉快。她全身心扑到工作上，成为一名虽然严厉却很有启发性的老师。她坚定地告诉自己，将道格迈克格雷格的信锁在床底下的盒子里里总比把魔杖锁在那里强。尽管如此，当从母亲伊莎贝尔的来信中得知道格和另外一个农场主的女儿结婚了的时候，米勒娃感到非常震惊。一天很晚的时候，邓布利多发现米勒娃在她教室里面流泪，然后她把整个故事告诉了他。邓布利多安慰了她，并且将自己家的一些故事讲给她听。从此，俩个极其克制和注重隐私的人之间建立起了相互信任的关系，并且，那天晚上为他们长久的相互尊重和友情奠定了基础。

她在霍格沃茨教书的前几年，米勒娃麦格和她原来在魔法部的上司Elphinstone Urquart保持着友谊。假期是他来苏格兰看望她，令她感到大为惊奇和尴尬的是，他居然在帕迪芙咖啡馆向她求婚了。但是米勒娃仍然爱着Dougal McGregor，她拒绝了他。

但是Elphinstone从未停止爱她，他之后几次向她求婚，仍然被拒绝。后来，Dougal因为外伤而意外身亡，使米勒娃得到某种情感上的解放。在伏地魔第一次失势后，已是白发的Elphinstone，在一次仲夏散步中，在霍格沃茨的湖畔，又一次向米勒娃求婚。这次米勒娃接受了。带着快乐退了休的Elphinstone在霍格莫德为他们俩人买了一幢别墅，这样米勒娃就可以很方便地每天去学校工作。

已经被一届又一届的学生称作“麦格教授”，有一点女权主义特质的米勒娃宣布她结婚后仍然保留自己的姓氏。传统主义者嗤之以鼻：为什么米勒娃情愿放弃接受一个纯血统的姓氏，却保留她麻瓜父亲的姓？

这是一门（虽然短得带有悲剧的性质，但是注定是）非常快乐的婚姻。虽然两个人没有孩子，米勒娃的侄子侄女（也就是她两个弟弟的子女）经常来小别墅里玩，极大地充实了米勒娃的生活。仅仅在他们结婚三年后，Elphinstone因毒触手咬伤而意外死亡，这对于所有认识这对夫妇的人来说都是极大的悲痛。米勒娃无法忍受独自一人呆在他们的别墅里，于是在Elphinstone的葬礼之后收拾行礼回到了她在霍格沃茨城堡里朴素的石头地板房间里。那房间在她一层书房墙上隐秘的门之后【很抱歉我不是很确定first-floor study是什么…我的理解是这套房子一共有两层，这个类似书房的房间在第一层。】她将自己全部精力用在了工作上。很少有人——也许邓布利多除外——意识到她承受了多大的痛苦。