" I should've learned to be an Animagus like Sirius."

“我应该学会做一个阿尼马格斯，就像小天狼星那样。"

This, as every schoolchild knows, is the fundamental difference between being an Animagus, and Transfiguring oneself into an animal.

每个小学生都知道，这是阿尼马格斯和把自己变形为动物的根本区别。

" You three and Dumbledore are the only ones around here who know I'm an Animagus, " said Sirius, shrugging, and continuing to devour the chicken leg.

“在这附近，只有你们三个和邓布利多知道我是一个阿尼马格斯。" 小天狼星说着耸了耸肩，继续大口吃着鸡腿。

" It takes years to become an Animagus, and then you have to register yourself and everything, " said Hermione vaguely, now squinting down the index of Weird Wizarding Dilemmas and Their Solutions.

“成为一个阿尼马格斯要花好几年时间呢，然后你还要去登记，麻烦多着呢。”赫敏含混地说，她正眯着眼睛查找《古怪的魔法难题及其解答》的索引。

" Otherwise, as you very well know, I will inform the authorities that you are an unregistered Animagus. Of course, the Prophet might give you rather a lot for an insider's account of life in Azkaban."

“否则，你心里有数，我会去报告你是没有登记过的阿尼马格斯。当然，《预言家日报》也许会出很多钱请你从内部写一写阿兹卡班的生活。”

The tale of Babbitty Rabbitty does, however, give us one of the earliest literary mentions of an Animagus, for Babbitty the washerwoman is possessed of the rare magical ability to transform into an animal at will.

不过，兔子巴比蒂的故事倒是首次在文学作品中提到了阿尼马格斯，因为洗衣妇巴比蒂拥有罕见的法术，能够随心所欲地变形为一只动物。

Your father and Sirius here were the cleverest students in the school, and lucky they were, because the Animagus transformation can go horribly wrong—one reason the Ministry keeps a close watch on those attempting to do it.

你爸爸和在这里的小天狼星是全校最聪明的学生。他们是幸运的，因为阿尼马吉变形术可能走火入魔出大错，所以魔法部才密切注视那些想这样做的人。

And so I convinced myself that Sirius was getting into the school using dark arts he learned from Voldemort, that being an Animagus had nothing to do with it, so, in a way, Snape's been right about me all along.”

这样，我就说服了自己，认为小天狼星是利用他从伏地魔那里学来的邪法混进学校的，他成为阿尼马格斯和这毫无关系，所以，在某种意义上，斯内普对我的看法一直是对的。”