Theo nearly snorted at the question, but held it back. 'You mean a reason other than the fact that I do report to someone else?' he asked, not caring to fully cover what he thought of it.
'No I fully expect him to be at least exaggerating things. Even directly after Azkaban, Rodolphus did now show this type of weakness to me.' Though perhaps he was reading too much into it? If the colour of the potion did fit, and Severus' first thoughts were not to him faking it... He shook his head. 'Rodolphus trusts no one but Rabastan and Bellatrix, and I suspect that even with her he does not trust her not to overreact to things. He certainly does not trust me enough. I think.'
He sighed. 'Mostly though, I wondered about his reaction to the news of Montague,' he explained. 'I thought that if he was not behind it, he'd be interested to find out who was, seeing how it was one of his men that was attacked. Yet he doesn't seem to be the least bit interested in that, yet I can't imagine he'd act like that if he'd been the one to order it. So what do you think? Did he order the attack or didn't he?'