The golden mist of light quickly dispersed, and Voldemort's face appeared before the Death Eaters once more.
At that moment, all the Death Eaters, including Lucius Malfoy, were silent with fear. Well, the reason Lucius deserved a special mention was that he now looked like a humanoid life-form whose evolution was either incomplete or had gone to extremes.
His hair had been platinum blond and long to begin with, but now it had grown longer than he was tall. What was more, masses of hair in all sorts of colors sprouted from every gap in his robes.
Well, having chest hair, armpit hair, and leg hair in different colors was fairly normal... right?
The Death Eaters were all extremely alarmed. They had actually failed to capture Potter and let him escape right under their noses. But they really were being unfairly blamed.
No one had expected him to be able to escape while dueling the Dark Lord, so everyone had reacted a beat too late.
Harry's abilities had also far exceeded their expectations. That defensive spell was invisible, but its effect was astonishingly good. Every single one of their offensive spells had been blocked without exception, which was rather absurd.
As for that final spell he had hit Lucius with...
Well, that was rather absurd too. But when they had seen it before, they had only watched for amusement and never studied it, so naturally they had even less idea how to lift the spell.
Thus, they could only watch helplessly as Lucius remained a hairy man even now.
But could they offer that as a reason or an excuse?
Every Death Eater knew they could not!
Voldemort never listened to reasons or excuses. He only cared about results. Anyone who failed to meet his demands would be punished, no