前不久，法國一男孩因私譯《哈利波特與死圣》而被捕。于是乎，“翻譯”二字一時間成了眾人躲閃不及的掃帚星。  不過，“哈譯”者也不必為此過于驚慌，J.K.羅琳本周二表示，她和出版商主要是指控以營利為目的的“網譯團隊”，哈迷們非功利性質的個人網譯行為雖然嚴格意義上是非法的，但不是哈作者起訴的目標。

Bookstore staff stack copies of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' as fans line up outside the store in Singapore, July 21, 2007.[Reuters]

J.K. Rowling and her French publisher said on Thursday they were worried about organized groups of translators, not individuals, after a boy was arrested for posting a translation of the last Harry Potter book online.

Gallimard, whose official French translation of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is due out on October 26, said on Wednesday police had arrested a teenager suspected of posting his own translation of the new Potter novel on the Internet.

The 16-year-old schoolboy, from the Aix-en-Provence area in southern France, was taken into custody by a police anti-counterfeiting unit but later released.

Britain's Rowling and Gallimard Jeunesse filed an official complaint, but on Thursday Gallimard spokeswoman Marie Leroy-Lena stressed that their concern was organized networks of translators seeking to profit from the huge interest generated by the books.

"This complaint in no way concerns isolated translations published on the Internet ... by disinterested fans not fully aware of the illegal nature of their action," she said in a statement.

Leroy-Lena said neither Gallimard nor Rowling were involved in the case and had not filed for damages.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published in English last month, selling millions of copies in a matter of hours to become the fastest-selling book on record. But as in France, authorized translations can take months to appear.

Many French stores are selling the English-language version.

More than 335 million copies of the seven Potter books have been sold worldwide.

Vocabulary: 

complaint：指控（法律用語）

damages：賠償金

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）