What does it mean if a guy says to his friend do you still like georgina and the mate says yeah does he fancy me please no silly answers?

I can come up with two perfectly valid answers.

1:

If my mate asked me for help/support, then I would need more information in order to try to figure things out. "Do you still like her?" could be such a related question. This would not indicate that I fancy her. I just would like to make my friend think about why or why not he should stay with her.

2:

If I knew that my mate was having a relationship with her and this has ended, then this question would be indicating that I actually like her and if it is no problem with my mate, then I would like to try to get to know her better.

In this case, I would give my mate time to try to figure out what he wants to do. If he starts dating another girl, then I would no longer feel obligated to keep/stay my distance.