Then Draco stumped him with a question. "Then how did they communicate just now?"
It was not until the two of them followed Fruit Tea and caught up with Lucius Malfoy from a distance that Harry came up with no answer either.
Of course, that was only a minor interlude. Once they caught up with Lucius Malfoy, Harry had no choice but to shift his attention.
Because Lucius was being extremely cautious.
The Malfoy patriarch, who always carried himself like an aristocrat and seemed to want to have the word "noble" written across his face, was now sneaking around the deserted corridors of Hogwarts.
Several times, he abruptly stopped and looked back over his shoulder. Sometimes, he even raised his wand and slashed it through the air a few times, magical glimmers flashing and vanishing in an instant.
Harry and Draco could not tell what spell it was, but it was surely no simple magic. Fortunately, they had the Invisibility Cloak—and Fruit Tea.
The first time Lucius Malfoy cast the spell, they saw with their own eyes how swiftly the magical giant cat reacted. With her awkward paws, she pulled a vial of potion from her pocket and scattered it before her.
The potion burst into mist the moment it touched the air. The thick fog hung suspended, rippling in rings like the tides of the Black Lake.
The two ignorant second-year wizards watched it all with blank stares. They could only vaguely guess that Lucius had cast some kind of detection spell, and that the potion Fruit Tea had scattered had either deceived or neutralized it.
They were astonished by the vigilance and hidden confrontation between Lucius and Fruit Tea, one man and one cat.
For now, Fruit Tea seemed to have the upper hand—
Draco was not particularly