Severus shrugs, spreads his hands.

"I believe it's the same one that oversaw those executions before all that unpleasantness." Well, they're still English. "So there's a certain familiarity with them, anyhow."

Back-stabbing, circular victimization, eating their own; the drugs he makes are addictive tenfold to supernatural beings, and much of his prospective users are not at all human. It shouldn't be a humorous remark.