It's quite all right. Believe me, I agree that more understanding would ease things, and that it's the only way to truly end these tensions. Though I know that that is, on its own, quite an undertaking.

[His expression is very, very carefully neutral as he starts to mention Gellert, almost to the point of placidity.]

He is, I think, overly confident in his own skills. And he is skilled, very much so. He's one of the brightest wizards alive. But that isn't enough, not when his approach is so rife with fear and destruction.