My take on “what the problem here is” is not the part where Said asks for examples, but that when Said shows up in a particular kind of thread, I have a pretty high expectation that there will be a resulting long conversation that won’t actually clarify anything important.
“You should have deduced it yourself, Mr. Potter,” Professor Quirrell said mildly. “You must learn to blur your vision until you can see the forest obscured by the trees. Anyone who heard the stories about you, and who did not know that you were the mysterious Boy-Who-Lived, could easily deduce your ownership of an invisibility cloak. Step back from these events, blur away their details, and what do we observe? There was a great rivalry between students, and their competition ended in a perfect tie. That sort of thing only happens in stories, Mr. Potter, and there is one person in this school who thinks in stories. There was a strange and complicated plot, which you should have realized was uncharacteristic of the young Slytherin you faced. But there is a person in this school who deals in plots that elaborate, and his name is not Zabini. And I did warn you that there was a quadruple agent; you knew that Zabini was at least a triple agent, and you should have guessed a high chance that it was he. No, I will not declare the battle invalid. All three of you failed the test, and lost to your common enemy.”
When I blur my vision so that the details are fuzzy but the broad strokes are still visible, I too see “a pretty high expectation that there will be a resulting long conversation that won’t actually clarify anything important”. And I think that this approach of blurring ones vision is a wise one to adopt in this situation.
Agreed. It reminds me of this excerpt from HPMoR:
When I blur my vision so that the details are fuzzy but the broad strokes are still visible, I too see “a pretty high expectation that there will be a resulting long conversation that won’t actually clarify anything important”. And I think that this approach of blurring ones vision is a wise one to adopt in this situation.