Quote Originally Posted by Winter View Post
Also Eugene did want to make his son feel bad about losing this and as the factual leader of the Order, it does not really matter if he was higher than them, he'd still be the leader of the entire thing.

So no, I do not think it's reliable enough to consider this statement by Eugene to be some actual proof.
It appears to me that this is little more than "Well, Eugene could have been lying."

Which is true, but isn't sufficient to declare what he said was false. He is our in-comic expert, with the means to know the information he is claiming and we have no evidence which contradicts his statement. Thus, the default assumption must be that canon is correct in this instance.