The tension was so evident in Draco's interactions with his father that it even made Harry hesitate before taking his assigned seat. Lucius, who noticed, further urged him with a polite yet precise gesture towards the chair.<br/>Awkwardly, Harry sat, unable to keep his eyes off the paper folder Lucius had laid on the table. Even upside down, Harry could tell it had been labeled<span style="font-style: italic">Potter</span>with a fine, printed label. Just the thought of it made Harry sick to his stomach with a justified worry, even as he shifted in the chair and yet again met Lucius' smile with one of his own.<br/>"Right," Lucius said upon joining them at the table. "Let us just get on with it."<br/>Harry was aware of the sound of movement and dishware somewhere behind a door to their left, guessing by the context and invitation that there was help waiting to serve them lunch. It was, however, hard to ignore how Lucius had shamelessly draped the, now opened, folder across his own plate, clearly having no intention of joining them himself.<br/>Lucius hummed, filling the dead silence of the room. The folder opened up onto a printed paper with a list, and when Lucius picked it up, Harry nauseatingly realized that the file contained well over 30 pages.<br/>Harry straightened his posture, raising his eyes to Lucius' before the other had looked up from the paper.<br/>When Lucius inevitably looked over the paper to Harry, and saw that he was already meeting his eye with a polite smile, Lucius seemed pleased.<br/>Reading off of the bullet point list in his hand, Lucius started off unabashedly. "Harry James Potter, 26. Born July 31st 1980 to Captain James Potter and Corporal Lily Potter. Corporal Potter passed away in service in '83 and you Captain father died attempting to break up a physical altercation two years later. Orphan at age 5."<br/>As if his words had been nothing more than black ink on paper, Lucius leaned back to, behind Draco's back, wave on at the butler to hurry the serving of lunch.<br/>When he once again resettled himself, Lucius continued, eyes to the paper as if this was the first time he was reading it. "Subsequently fostered by your maternal aunt and her family in their home in Surrey."<br/>Harry just sat there meeting Lucius' eye once he finally looked up. Harry just smiled, knowing well enough that Lucius wasn't inviting him to speak. Correctly enough, Lucius once again looked down to continue his exposition.