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《哈利·波特》系列已经已经有几十年的历史了，小说的背景设定在20世纪90年代，而现在世界的运作方式已经发生了巨大的变化，对于刚开始看《哈利·波特》的小朋友来说，可能有的情节是难以理解的。
Kids these days are used to cell phones, however, it wasn't easy to stay in touch in the 1990s, and RON calling Harry was a big deal.
现在的孩子们已经习惯了手机，然而，在20世纪90年代想要保持联系可不容易，罗恩打电话给哈利是件大事。
Ron somehow got hold of a Muggle telephone, and then somehow managed to dial the number belonging to the Dursleys. It represented how much Ron cared for Harry to have a friend call in during his days in solitude, showing us that he really was his best friend.
罗恩不知怎么弄到了一个麻瓜的电话，然后不知怎么拨到了德思礼一家的号码。这代表了罗恩是多么关心哈利，在哈利孤独的日子里有一个朋友能打来电话，表明罗恩真的是他最好的朋友。
Another thing you can find on the internet these days is the newer generation of fans asking why Harry didn’t wander away from Little Whinging to pass his time and stuck around to get abused by the Dursleys every day.
这些天你在网上还能发现另一件事，就是新一代的哈利迷们在问，为什么哈利没有离开小惠金区打发时间，而是每天呆在那里被德思礼一家虐待。
That’s because back then there were no cellphones for him to call should he get lost, and the Dursleys certainly weren’t going to go looking for him.
那是因为那时没有手机，如果他迷路了可以打电话，德思礼一家当然也不会去找他。
The other qualm new fans have is wondering how the kids spent their time away from Hogwarts, as the wizard children didn’t have any technology for them to pass the time.
新粉丝们的另一个疑虑是，孩子们离开霍格沃茨是怎么度过的，因为巫师孩子们没有任何科技产品可以让他们打发时间。
What JK Rowling was in fact going for here was to show to us the value of a family life the wizards had.
JK罗琳在这里的目的实际上是向我们展示巫师家庭生活的价值。
To be fair, even the generation Harry Potter was released in didn’t really grasp the concept of owls being used for communication, especially when phones were commonplace then.
公平地说，即使是《哈利波特》诞生的那一代人也没有真正理解猫头鹰被用来交流的概念，尤其是在手机很普及的时候。
Nowadays, instant messaging apps let you know everything that’s happening in the lives of those people who aren’t your friends, but Hogwarts students generally had to wait for the summer to be over to know the happenings of acquaintances, and only friends received the honor of owl post.
如今，即时通讯软件让你了解那些并不是你朋友的人生活中发生的一切，但霍格沃茨的学生通常要等到暑假结束才能知道熟人的事情，而且只有朋友才有资格得到猫头鹰邮件的殊荣。
So, JK Rowling was using owls as a way of representing keeping in touch with those people who were closest to the main characters.
所以，JK罗琳用猫头鹰来代表与主角们最亲近的人保持联系的一种方式。
It’s a good thing that kids have many options nowadays for support when feeling depressed or out of place in lives. But 20 years ago, children's childhood problems were often not taken seriously by adults.
现在，当孩子们感到沮丧或在生活中感到不适应时，他们有很多选择来寻求支持，这是一件好事。但20年前，孩子们的童年问题通常不被成年人重视。
That’s why kids of today have a hard time understanding why Ginny poured her heart out to a mysterious memory in a diary rather than talk to someone about her problems – there just wasn’t the kind of awareness there is today over these issues back then.
这就是为什么现在的孩子很难理解为什么金妮把她的心思倾注在日记里的神秘记忆中，而不是和别人谈论她的问题——当时的人们对这些问题没有今天的那种意识。
Ginny felt very lonely at the time, so she would always use the diary.
金妮当时感到非常孤独，所以会一直使用那本日记。
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