Barely, anyone was listening to him and no one was looking up to him. He was losing a lot of credibility and he was also suffering a lot of losses and he hated to lose. That brat Kurusu reminded him of Tom, who had stolen a lot from him, but the Kurusu brat was even worse than Tom, because unlike Tom, he didn’t do it actively, but passively. Apart from that, Tom was killing his lost sheep, whereas that Kurusu brat was doing nothing and his sheep were leaving on their free wills. The boy had been doing this since he had replaced the bonds with those muggles and the Potters and Sirius lost everything.