Of course, the threat assessment is about as useless as most responses from the Wizard. She doesn't know or she redirects or she gives half answers. It's clear that if he wants to learn specifics about this, he'll have to find the Protector or the wolf-thing themselves. So he doubles back for now, on the way to his real topic...

"How'd you know the wolf-thing was going to do something today if you haven't been in contact for forty years?"