If he was indeed a 2nd-level player, he would have pretended to be shocked as a part of his 0th-level act. Then he somehow comes to the conclusion that Harry is 3rd-level.
Of course… he was still keeping up the act… he even went “lol Longbottom’s now working for Voldy” a little while later. It never occurred to me that the shock could be fake.
In other words, everything makes perfect sense assuming that “I prefer to deal with the part of House Malfoy that’s my age” has some hidden significance that associates it with Voldemort.
I still think he takes it as a confirmation that Voldemort is possessing Harry. Voldemort is much closer in age to Lucius then Draco. Voldemort playing strange games with your son is much more concerning then the boy who lived playing strange games with your son. Also consider Lucius’s parting statement: “And as you have asked nothing more of me, I will ask nothing more of you.”
Why would the boy who lived ask anything of Lucius? Voldemort certainly would.
If he was indeed a 2nd-level player, he would have pretended to be shocked as a part of his 0th-level act. Then he somehow comes to the conclusion that Harry is 3rd-level.
Of course… he was still keeping up the act… he even went “lol Longbottom’s now working for Voldy” a little while later. It never occurred to me that the shock could be fake.
In other words, everything makes perfect sense assuming that “I prefer to deal with the part of House Malfoy that’s my age” has some hidden significance that associates it with Voldemort.
As to what that significance could be...
Voldemort is actually hundreds of years old and prefers to communicate with Malfoy’s ancestor, Helga Hufflepuff’s ghost?
I still think he takes it as a confirmation that Voldemort is possessing Harry. Voldemort is much closer in age to Lucius then Draco. Voldemort playing strange games with your son is much more concerning then the boy who lived playing strange games with your son. Also consider Lucius’s parting statement: “And as you have asked nothing more of me, I will ask nothing more of you.”
Why would the boy who lived ask anything of Lucius? Voldemort certainly would.
No shit, Sherlock.
The question is “why?”