Marge Dursley
瑪姬.德思禮
Marjorie Eileen Dursley is the older sister of Vernon Dursley. Although no blood relation of Harry Potter, he has been taught to call her ‘Aunt Marge’.
瑪喬麗.艾琳.德思禮是威農.德思禮的姊姊。雖然她和哈利.波特沒有血緣關係,但他從小就被教著要叫她「瑪姬姑姑」。
Marge is a large and unpleasant woman whose main interest in life is breeding bulldogs. She believes in corporal punishment and plain speaking, which is what she calls being offensive. Marge is secretly in love with a neighbour called Colonel Fubster, who looks after her dogs when she is away. He will never marry her, due to her truly horrible personality. This unrequited passion fuels a lot of her nasty behaviour to other people.
瑪姬是一位龐大而不討喜的女人,主要的興趣為飼育牛頭狗。她贊同體罰和坦率直言,兩樣被她合稱具有攻擊性的特質。瑪姬私底下愛慕她那叫作法布特上校的鄰居,他在她不在家的時候替她看狗。他永遠都不會和她結婚,因為她極其糟糕的個性。這種沒有回報的熱情是她對其他人糟糕舉止的主要來源。
Marge dotes on Dudley, her only nephew. She does not know that Harry Potter, who lives with her relatives, is a wizard. She believes him to be the offspring of two unemployed layabouts who dumped their son on their hardworking relatives, Vernon and Petunia. The latter, who are terrified of the prejudiced and outspoken Marge finding out the truth, have fostered this impression over many years.
瑪姬非常寵愛她唯一的外甥,達力。她並不知道和她的親戚住在一起的哈利.波特是一位巫師。她相信他是兩個把他丟給他們辛苦工作親戚,威農和佩妮,的無業遊民的小孩。威農和佩妮,極其恐懼有偏見和直言不諱的瑪姬會發現真相,多年來助長了瑪姬對哈利的印象。
When Harry becomes angry with Aunt Marge, who has been insulting his parents, and loses control over his magical abilities, she is blown up like a barrage balloon. Two members of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad must be dispatched from the Ministry of Magic to deal with this incident and modify Aunt Marge’s memory. From that time forward, the Dursleys do not invite Marge to stay while Harry is in residence and he never sees her again.
當哈利生起不斷汙辱他父母的瑪姬姑姑的氣,而失去控制他的魔法能力,她被像是防空氣球一樣充滿了氣。魔法部得派遣兩名逆轉偶發事件小組的成員去處理並修改瑪姬姑姑的記憶。從此以後,德思禮一家再也不邀請瑪姬來和他們一起住,只要哈利在家,而他也再也沒看過她一次。
J.K. Rowling’s Thoughts JK羅琳的想法
I regret making Aunt Marge a breeder of bulldogs, as I now know them to be a non-aggressive breed. My sister owns one and he’s the most loveable, affectionate dog you could hope to meet. On the other hand, they do look grumpy, and on appearance alone seemed to suit Aunt Marge.
我後悔把瑪姬姑姑寫成牛頭狗的飼育家,現在我知道了牛頭狗是一種非侵略性的品種。我妹妹養了一隻,而牠是你希望可以遇到的最可愛、喜歡親熱的狗。反過來說,牠們看起來的確是脾氣暴躁,而這種外觀看來很適合瑪姬姑姑。