"Of course." Snape declared loftily. "If Sirius thinks something's a good idea, no doubt it's suicidally foolhardy."
"The Death Eaters weren't exactly an abstemious bunch." Snape confided: only a slight imprecision in his glare and the slowness with which he delivered the word 'abstemious', suggested that he was less than sober. "I drank regularly: not for the reasons you think, but to stay practiced at keeping a level head, until I could get away and take Sobering Solution."
"Oh?" he inquired haughtily, "How precisely do you plan on making these sweeping changes?" he sneered. "Do enlighten me."