This is all profoundly unwise. But it's a difficult thing, to shake the idea that Snape tends to know what he's doing. Even twenty-five-year-old drug dealing Snape.

"Well, if you were after a demographic known for their more addictive personalities, I can't say you didn't find it," he notes, after a lengthy enough pause of consideration at all of the everything that is coming out of Severus' mouth.

If he ever meets his contemporary-- "You wish me to be diplomatic at a vampire lord."