"Trying for those who feel responsible both for the people who have vanished and those who have just arrived," he said, calmly. "Certainly they have more magic than we do here, but clearly not enough to have solved the problem. And while the difficulties they labor under are different from the ones we endure here, it does not mean that there are none. If I am not mistaken, you had the opportunity to see that for yourself and chose to not to avail you of it. Do you now regret that choice?"