"I'm glad you didn't come back. It--" he hesitates here before pressing on. "It wasn't a good place for you. You could never conform like that. I slipped under the radar." And became a Death Eater, but, well, we can't have it all.

As for the question--he breathes slow before nodding. "I'll likely have to, yes. I can't... right now. I have to come up with a plausible reason for..." His leg. He grimaces a little as he shifts his stance, having thought about it now. "I can keep him out of my mind, but a bad lie will fall apart anyway. Until then, I can feed him old information that will feel valid but not be useful. I've only just become a part of the Order, after all."

He smiles then and it's a little sharp, a little sly - he's happy to be pulling this on someone he hates, in any case.