Selfish, smug victory is not what matters here. This is not a game of team versus team. Everyone's fate is in the balance here. Treating it so trivially is terrible. Wilful ignorance is even worse.

Had I remained the protector and not been converted, by now I would have more than realized that there was something more to things. To go this long determined to ignore all clues otherwise speaks of a remarkable ignorance in that boy. [ the 'boy' being Charles. ]