Malfoys at the Quidditch World Cup

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 89028

bboy_mn wrote:

The only problem with this, Malfoys not camping, is explaining why
> Draco was still there in the middle of the night when the trouble
> started. I would speculate that after the Quidditch match, the 
Malfoy
> parent went off to socialize with promenent citizens of the wizard
> world, something young Draco would eventually find tediously boring.
> So eventually Draco wandered off by himself, perhaps to find some 
old
> school chums, while his parents went off to have a few drinks with
> their fellow Death Eaters. 
 
> That left Draco on his own to find a safe spot with a good view when
> the trouble started, and while the lesser wizards scambled for 
cover.
Still, even that leaves one issue unresolved, when his parents
> disapparated when they saw the Dark Mark, Draco was left alone in 
the woods with no way to get home. Hummm.... maybe the Malfoy's 
arrived by broomstick, that way Draco could fly his broom home. 

Berit replies:

Quote:

"It [the Dark Mark] scared the Death Eaters away the moment they saw 
it. They all Disapparated before we'd got near enough to unmask any 
of them." (GoF p. 127 UK Ed).

I don't think the DE's Disapparated off the grounds, all the way to 
their homes. What would that have looked like? Despite the fact that 
there were tens of thousands of wizards at the campsite, someone 
would surely notice if a group of people about the same numbers as 
the ones having had fun on the Muggles' behalf had disappeared from 
the area. The sudden absence of an important and well known man like 
Lucius Malfoy, for instance, would most certainly have raised 
suspicions. The smart thing for the DE's to do would be to 
Disapparate from the scene of the crime and then Apparate unnoticed 
somewhere else in the vicinity; for instance inside their own 
luxurious tents, or a secluded place in the woods :-) That way they 
could easily act "normal", and pretend to have been hiding in their 
tents or in the woods. That way there would be no need for the 
Malfoys to leave their son Draco behind; an act which would have been 
HIGHLY suspicious I believe, no matter whether Draco had a broom or 
not to fly off with on his own (and Narcissa would probably have 
refused to leave darling Draco behind anyway :-)

No, the easiest and most effective way to get away successfully is to 
mingle with the crowd, not to draw attention to yourself by 
Disapparate in a panic to a completely different place... My two 
knuts :-)

Berit
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