Since Lucius Malfoy was being so frank, Vizet had no need to hide anything either. "Mr. Malfoy, you're not wrong. Voldemort has indeed returned."
"As for those old friends of yours being watched, that should also be Headmaster Dumbledore's arrangement. He told me before that he would ask some old friends to help him out."
The moment he heard the name "Voldemort," Lucius Malfoy's face turned as pale as paper.
"But... but that shouldn't be!" Aside from fear, there was a hint of agitation in his voice. "It's far too abnormal. It's not his way of doing things. Why would he do this?"
"Oh?" Vizet blinked. "Mr. Malfoy, what sort of person do you think Voldemort is, and what sort of action would he take?"
"He should be displaying his power!" Lucius Malfoy pulled back the sleeve on his left arm. "As his power grew stronger, the Dark Mark should have appeared."
"That was what he always did in the past. He would reflect his emotions through the Dark Mark, make us feel his anger, make us develop fear of him."
"If he meant to make a comeback, the Dark Mark should have appeared, and it should have become more and more obvious... That was how he did things before..."
Lucius Malfoy's voice trembled again. As if he had remembered something terrible, his words gradually lost their order.
"When he came close, the Dark Mark would change color. The closer he got, the blacker it became. This Dark Mark was practically an hourglass!"
"If he really came back, he would absolutely summon us at the first opportunity! No matter who it was, as long as they bore the Dark Mark, they had to answer his summons!"
From Lucius Malfoy's somewhat disordered words, Vizet summed up some of Voldemort's past habits.