If he was really a wizard, why hadn't they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock him in his cupboard?

如果他真一名巫师，那么当他们要把他锁进储藏间的时候，他们为什么没有变成疙疙瘩瘩的癞蛤蟆呢？

The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families.

解决的办法抛弃亲麻瓜的寓意，保留长满疣的坩埚形象，于到了十六世纪中期，一个不同的故事版本在巫师家庭中广泛流传。

“Be still. Be silent! ” shrieked the wizard, but not all his magical powers could quieten the warty pot, which hopped at his heels all day, braying and groaning and clanging, no matter where he went or what he did.

“别动。安静！”巫师尖叫道，但不管他用什么魔法，都不能使长满疣的坩埚安静下。坩埚整天跟在他的身跳去，发出驴叫声、呻吟声和撞击声，不管他去什么地方，做什么事情。

" What is a valonqar? Some monster" ? The golden girl did not like that foretelling. " You're a liar and a warty frog and a smelly old savage, and I don't believe a word of what you say. Come away, Melara. She is not worth hearing" .

" VALONQAR什么？怪物吗？" 黄金女孩不喜欢这段预言，" 你个骗子，癞蛤蟆，臭猪！你说的我一句也不信！梅拉雅，我们走，不要听她胡言乱语。"