美国老人办全球唯一注册魔法学校
This spells trouble! Real-life Dumbledore opens world‘s first wizard school


原文地址（附音频）：http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/news/2011-03/04/content_12113197.htm

He is the real-life wizard headｍａｓｔｅｒ　giving Harry Potter’s Dumbledore a run for his money.

他是现实版的“魔法学校校长”，让“哈利•波特”中的邓布利多校长也感到了竞争。

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, 68, has dedicated his life to studying the Dark Arts - even doing the shopping in his wizard costume and wand.

现年68岁的奥伯伦•泽尔•瑞文哈特将一生的精力都用于研究黑魔法，甚至去超市购物时也穿着魔法袍带着魔杖。

Now the magic ｍａｓｔｅｒ　has opened the world’s only registered wizard academy, the Grey School of Wizardry, as he prepares to make Hogwarts and the world of Harry Potter a reality.

如今，这位魔法大师开办了全球唯一一个注册魔法学校——格瑞魔法学校，要把霍格沃兹魔法学校和哈利•波特的世界变成现实。

‘If you‘ve ever read Harry Potter and wondered if wizards really do walk among us, perhaps behind a secret train platform, or in secret communities, I can tell you that we are absolutely real,‘ says Oberon, from Cotati, California.

来自美国加州科塔蒂的奥伯伦说：“如果你曾经看过《哈利•波特》，想知道我们中间是不是真有魔法师，他可能正躲在一个隐秘的火车站台后面，或者在某个秘密社区里，那我可以告诉你，我们魔法师真的存在。”

Today, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart’s Grey School of Wizardry is the first wizard school to be officially recognized as an academic establishment.

奥伯伦•泽尔•瑞文哈特开办的格瑞魔法学校被认定为学术机构，成为首个被正式认可的魔法学校。

Like Hogwarts, the Grey School teaches 16 departments, including Alchemy, Beastmastery, Horse-whispering, wand-making and spell casting.

与霍格沃兹一样，格瑞魔法学校分为16个系，教授炼金术、驭兽术、马语、魔杖制作和咒语施法等。

Pupils who attend unique ‘conclave’ magic schools are split into four ancient houses - Winds, Undines, Gnomes and Salamanders, and like Potter, students study a defence against the deadly Dark Arts.

在独特的“秘密”学院里，学生被分为风、水、土、火“四大家族”。与哈利•波特一样，大家都要学习对抗致命的“黑魔法”。

‘In the magic community I’m referred to as the real Dumbledore,‘ admits Oberon. ‘But before Harry Potter, people just called me Merlin, or Gandalf.‘

奥伯伦说：“在魔法界，人们称我为真实的邓布利多。但在哈利•波特问世之前，人们叫我梅林或甘道夫。”（译者注：二人分别是《亚瑟王传奇》和《魔戒》中的法师）。

The former teacher and counselor was teaching spells to aspiring wizards long before JK Rowling even dreamed up Harry Potter.

早在J•K•罗琳构思创作《哈利•波特》系列之前，奥伯伦就开始向有志成为魔法师的人们教授咒语了。奥伯伦曾担任教师和顾问。

Oberon rose to fame in the early 1980s as an eccentric who claimed to have created the world’s first unicorn. Unbelievably, the self-proclaimed ‘ｍａｓｔｅｒ　of wizardry‘ created a single-horned creature, using minor surgery on a goat, that made front page news in America.

在20世纪80年代初，奥伯伦宣称自己创造出世界上第一头独角兽，从而一夜成名。但自称“魔法大师”的奥伯伦只是给一只山羊做了个小手术，让它变成了一只独角羊，这在当时引发美国媒体轰动。

The creature later toured America with a famous circus. ‘It’s every wizard’s dream to have a unicorn, and we achieved that,‘ says Oberon, who lives with his wife, Morning Glory, 63, a witch. In 1985, he organized a diving expedition in Australia and New Guinea to investigate the age-old mystery of the mermaid.

随后，一家著名马戏团带这只“独角兽”在美国进行巡演。奥伯伦说：“每个魔法师都梦想能有只独角兽，我们实现了。”奥伯伦目前和63岁的妻子、女魔法师“牵牛花”一起生活。在1985年，他还在澳大利亚和新几内亚组织了一场跳水探险活动，追溯美人鱼的古老传说。

The Grey School boasts 735 students, of which Oberon claims 100 are under-18 ‘trainee Harry Potters.’ For now, it is an online college with regular physical wizard camps, where muggles can study seven years to graduate with a journeyman degree in Wizardry.

格瑞魔法学校宣称有735名学