The Knight Bus
騎士公車
For witches and wizards who are Floo-sick, whose Apparition is unreliable, who hate heights or who feel frightened or queasy taking Portkeys, there is always the Knight Bus, which appears whenever a witch or wizard in urgent need of transportation sticks out their wand arm at the kerb.
對於厭倦呼嚕粉、無法有效施展現影術、懼高或畏懼或感覺反胃使用港口鑰的巫師女巫來說，騎士公車總是存在，而且會在有緊急需要交通工具的女巫或巫師在路邊伸出他們的魔杖手的時候出現，不管什麼時間。
A purple, triple-decker bus, it has seats during the day and beds at night. It is not particularly comfortable, and I would advise against ordering hot drinks even if offered, because the bus’s habit of leaping from one destination to another at a moment’s notice can result in a lot of spillage.
騎士公車是一輛紫色的三層巴士，在白天有座位而晚上有床。它並不是特別舒適，而我不會建議點任何熱飲來喝，就算是給的，因為該公車在瞬間從一地點跳到另一地點的習慣可以造成大量的潑灑。
The Knight Bus is a relatively modern invention in wizarding society, which sometimes (though it will rarely admit it) takes ideas from the Muggle world. The need for some form of transportation that could be used safely and discreetly by the underage or the infirm had been felt for a while and many suggestions had been made (sidecars on taxi-style broomsticks, carrying baskets slung under Thestrals) all of them vetoed by the Ministry. Finally, Minister for Magic Dugald McPhail hit upon the idea of imitating the Muggles’ relatively new ‘bus service’ and in 1865, the Knight Bus hit the streets.
騎士公車在巫師社會中是比較現代的發明，巫師社會有時候（雖然很少承認）會從麻瓜世界借取概念。巫界大眾認為有需要提供一種可以給未成年或年邁的巫師安全而且謹慎使用的交通方式已經有了一段時間，而許多人也提出了很多建議（計程車式的掃帚旁邊掛邊車、懸掛在騎士墜鬼馬下的籃子），全部被魔法部否決。最後，魔法部長杜格德‧麥菲爾提出模仿麻瓜當時還算新的「公車服務」的點子，而在1865年，騎士公車正式上路。
While some wizards (mainly pureblood fanatics) announced their intention of boycotting what was dubbed ‘this Muggle-esque outrage’ in the letters page of the Daily Prophet, the Knight Bus proved hugely popular with most of the community and remains busy to this day. "
當有些巫師（主要為純種狂熱族群）投書至預言家日報的讀者來信頁面宣稱他們將抵制這樣他們稱呼為「麻瓜式侮辱」的服務時，騎士公車廣受大部分的巫師界的歡迎而且至今仍然保持忙碌。
J.K. Rowling’s Thoughts JK羅琳的想法
The Knight Bus was so-named because, firstly, knight is a homonym of night, and there are night buses running all over Britain after normal transport stops. Secondly, ‘knight’ has the connotation of coming to the rescue, of protection, and this seemed appropriate for a vehicle that is often the conveyance of last resort.
騎士公車的命名來自於第一，騎士（knight）是夜晚（night）的同音詞，而在英國晚上在普通交通工具停止運作之後還有許多晚班公車在跑。第二，「騎士」有著來拯救、保護的意義，而這很適合通常是做為最後選擇的運輸工具。
The driver and conductor of the Knight Bus in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ are named after my two grandfathers, Ernest and Stanley.
在哈利波特與阿茲卡班的逃犯裡面騎士公車的駕駛和車掌的名字來自於我的祖父和外祖父，厄內斯特和史丹利。
