"I really had let my guard down too much..." Jacob Kowalski said with a smile, shaking his head as he rubbed his brow. "Only now do I understand what that Muggle was trying to do."
"What he wanted was to redefine it." A rare smile appeared on Barty Crouch Sr.'s stern face, one full of admiration.
"At an occasion like this, so-called rebuttals and verbal victories... are actually meaningless. Redefining the topic and stating your own views are what truly matter."
"Exactly! Winning or losing in words is only incidental..." Jacob Kowalski nodded in agreement. "Wizet understood that long ago."
"On the day of the 'Paris Region Incident,' he used a similar method. Not only did he handle the Dark wizards from that hostile faction, he also inspired many of his own people."
"It is the same now. Since that Muggle brought up things like 'creatures delivering messages,' he clearly knew about the shortcomings of owls."
"Wizet realized that, so he did not even bother defending them. Instead, he frankly admitted that owls had flaws, depriving the Muggle of an argument to attack with."
"If the definition of 'communication' is expanded to include safety, accuracy, and so on, then the advantages of that Muggle form of magic will no longer be so comprehensive."
Barty Crouch Sr. nodded slightly. "The agenda of this International Confederation of Wizards Conference has changed greatly since the Paris Region Incident..."
"The topic is no longer progress versus backwardness at all, but exploring the possibility of complementing one another. Wizet may appear to be conceding, but he has actually pulled the discussion back into his own hands and returned it to the issue that ought to be discussed."
"No matter what kind of magic they possess, people are complex and forgetful creatures." Jacob Kowalski sighed. "Even