I dunno, the best way to carry on his Malfoy tradition would be to thank the Boy-Who-Lived profusely, smile falsely and carry on. For emphasis he should claim he was only Imperiused into pretending to love his father, callback to Lucius → Voldemort. Harry isn’t dumb enough to trust him no matter what he says, might as well spit in his eye one last time.
I’m sure that he would have like to do this, but he wasn’t emotionally capable of carrying on the Malfoy tradition properly; he was just musing about that.
I dunno, the best way to carry on his Malfoy tradition would be to thank the Boy-Who-Lived profusely, smile falsely and carry on. For emphasis he should claim he was only Imperiused into pretending to love his father, callback to Lucius → Voldemort. Harry isn’t dumb enough to trust him no matter what he says, might as well spit in his eye one last time.
I’m sure that he would have like to do this, but he wasn’t emotionally capable of carrying on the Malfoy tradition properly; he was just musing about that.