He brings the broom to a halt in the early-morning shadows behind the hut, and they dismount, stretching. He tucks the broom behind some bushes and disillusions it to look like the rest of the shrubbery. Then he disillusions the backpack and slings it over his shoulder where no one will notice it. Lord Malfoy doesn’t carry a backpack like a First-Year student. "I know it’s not fair," he says, "but I can walk into the castle with some story about needing a book from the Hogwarts library, and Snape and Umbridge will allow me to go wherever I want. What do you suppose they’d do with you?"