"Hmm, let me translate. 'I can't think of anything clever to say and so I pretend you're not worth the time'," Zacharias replied with a little smirk. He understood the tactic. Although some people really weren't worth the time.
He looked at Michael with the same sort of considering manner - perhaps more of a considering manner, tilting his head to the side. "Well, I suppose there's no accounting for taste," he commented. Of course Pansy wasn't exactly the society darling she had once been - oh, gossip did travel among the rich and elite of the Wizarding World.
"What a delightful little homelife that must be." Michael might have been tensing, but Zacharias was rather relaxed. Of course he was quite used to being insulting to people and having battles of snark. He'd had years and years of practice!