Thank you so much for your lovely and detailed comment! :-)
I'm glad you liked Horace's background here, and the way his 'inner workings' were portrayed. Also, it's nice to know that the death scene worked on an emotional level - but sorry for the tears! *passes tissues*
And of course, the end was perfect. :)
Thanks! After all of that angst I couldn't bear not to give them a happy ending - and given the set-up of the HP universe, afterlife-fluff seemed just about plausible...
Can't wait to find out who you are. :)
Ha ha! Well, we've 'met' already, so maybe it's an anticlimax. ;-)