A few days ago, Elise was going to grind some cardamom for me

(We have cardamom seeds, hulled - how cool is that?)

Anyway, as she was scooping them out, she saw... movement. *sigh* Elise apparently wanted to toss them out right there, but my view was that cardamom seeds save time and money, and there's a lot of them left, and they cost me $6, and a little protein never hurt anybody, and how about we just kill everything and forget it ever happened, and did I mention that was $6?

My view prevailed, and now the seeds (moved to a new container) are sitting in Jenn's freezer. I feel a bit bad about this whole thing, but not very. I mean, $6! And we use more cardamom than you'd expect.

You know what I just realized?

Severus Snape wasn't that old.

Think about it. He must've been about 20 when Harry was born, so at the end of the series he couldn't've been older than 37 or maybe 40. Which means when the series *starts* he's got to have been in his early 30s, which isn't as old as the books make him appear, especially as wizards seem to live longer.

I mean, reading the books, didn't you picture somebody... older?