Re: A two-parter here
And there's a distinct pleasure in the way Horace sees him as a young man.
Another thing I like about the HP-verse (and which is addressed only fuzzily in canon) is the implications stemming from a society where people regularly live to over a century and a half. I think I like pairing Snape with older characters because he in particular seems even younger - having accomplished quite a bit in his time, of course, but a little emotionally stunted, having never really left school, constantly surrounded by people who were adults when he was a child, never having the chance to move on and grow up and define himself by anything beyond his loyalties.