Riddle took a centering breath before answering. "Knightley comes from a poor but old family. He’s stupid, magically weak, and completely incapable of raising his family above the depths they’ve sunk to. He knows this. His family knows this. Everyone knows this, and thus Knightley bears the burden of disappointing his entire line. He deals with this burden by pretending to be more powerful than he is, mocking, humiliating, and beating everyone he thinks he can get away with abusing to make himself look better. He thought he could push me around. I showed him he couldn’t," Riddle finished simply.