In the "rich" residential district of the Floating City, Draco and Pansy took the three children, Emily, Gabrielle, and Laura, from new neighbor to new neighbor, playing the traditional trick-or-treating game.
Emily held a basket enchanted with an Undetectable Extension Charm in one hand. Since she had brought Helena along too, she had to ask for a share of candy on behalf of the female ghost, who could not show outsiders that she was able to touch things. Emily knew perfectly well that this niece of hers would at most taste a few pieces for form's sake, and the rest would all end up hers—and though the new neighbors thought Emily's excuse about collecting candy for a ghost was utter nonsense, no one was going to refuse a cute little girl who was only being a bit greedy, especially when her surname was Harris.
Behind the children's group, Goyle and Crabbe, though both long past seventeen and already considered adults in the Wizarding World, were also carrying large baskets and following close behind. After the little girls went ahead and got candy, the two of them would seize the chance to go over and take a few pieces as well.
And bringing up the rear as the children's minders were the elder Malfoy couple, who were chatting on and off with the guards to build a closer relationship with them. After all, they felt that in the future, their safety would have to be entrusted to these people.
With his parents at his side, Draco felt he had someone to back him up, and he showed an excitement and a somewhat long-lost arrogance, loudly and coarsely mocking to Pansy all the ways the surrounding residences had been arranged without sufficient elegance—until he realized he hadn't heard Crabbe and Goyle echoing