Harry1: Hagrid, what exactly is that?
Hagrid: That? It's, it's um...
Ron: I know what that is! But Hagrid, how did you get one?
Hagrid: I won it! Off a stranger I met in the pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact.
Hermione: Is that a dragon?
Ron: That's not just a dragon! That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania.
Hagrid: Isn't he beautiful? Oh bless him, look, he knows his mummy! Hello, Norbert!
Harry: Norbert?
Hagrid: Yeah. Why he's gotta have a name, got he? Don't you, Norbert? Te de de de de! Oh! Woah! Woah! He'll have to be trained up a bit of course. Who's that?
Harry: Malfoy.
Hagrid: Oh, dear.
Harry: Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so the first time I ever met him.
Ron: It's crazy! And worse Malfoy knows.
Hermione: I don't understand. Is that bad?
Ron: It's bad.
McGonagall: Good evening. Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken.
Harry: 50!
McGonagall: Each. And to ensure it doesn't happen again, all four of you will receive detention2.
Malfoy: Excuse me, Professor. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us.
McGonagall: No you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were, you, too, were out of bed after hours. You will join your classmates in detention.
Filch3: A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention was found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons4. God, I'll miss the screaming. You'll be serving detention with Hagrid tonight. He's got a little job to do inside the Dark Forest. A sorry lot, this, Hagrid. Oh good God, man, you're not still on about that bloody5 dragon, are you?
Hagrid: Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in a colony.
Hermione: Well, that's good, isn't it? He'll be with his own kind.
Hagrid: Yeah, but what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby after all.
Filch: Oh, for God's sake, pull yourself together, man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about you.
Malfoy: The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are... werewolves!
Filch: Ah, there's more than werewolves in those trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty- night.
Hagrid: Right, let's go.
妙语佳句，活学活用
1. After hours
意思是After normal working hours, after closing time，也表示after legal or established opening hours，比如：I haven't time while the shop is open, but I can see you after hours.
像那种after-hours club 指的就是a drinking club that remained open later than similar establishments.
2. Be on
Be on 有几个常见的意思，大家来看一下：
1) Be taking medication or an illegal drug，比如：Are you on some antibiotic6?
2）Be in favor of something or willing to participate，比如：We're going dancing after the play--are you on?
3）Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio，比如：The news won't be on tonight.
在这里，这个be on 和about 连用，表示反复地/不停地谈论，比如：You mean, the kind of thing Carol is always on about.
3. Pull oneself together
意思是恢复冷静，恢复自控，比如：After that frightening episode, it took her a while to pull herself together.
4. Have one's wits about one
这个片语也写作keep one's wits about one，意思是Remain alert or calm, especially in a crisis，比如：After the collision I had my wits about me and got his name and license7 number.
