"No, not overly. I'm sensing it's going to just be rather ... depressing. To put it mildly." Barty looked like that so something probably went badly. He had a lot of questions but he feared the answers to all of them. He smiled without humour or joy and tried his best to face this all head on. He had to, didn't he?

"Let's start from the very beginning. Namely, because I have to know, do you know the circumstances of my death?" Did he know what Regulus was trying to do? He was a traitor to their cause. He didn't know Barty would take that or had taken it but he felt like it had to be put out there.