It's a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama.
" Why the hell, " panted Ron, holding up the Horcrux, which swung backward and forward on its shortened chain in some parody of hypnosis, " didn't you take the thing off before you dived? "