Oh, being someone who usually interprets everything literally, it's not often a story tempts me to sink my philosophical teeth into it and tastes good after I've done so. This will definitely be read many times.
Each of the (now) four times I've read thsi, I find myself cataloguing the pros and cons of Severus' dilemma of silence, and each time, I just know it will work. In my own mind, I have no doubt that, at some point, Harry will know the truth without Severus having to say a word, and it will be fine. I can't explain why, although whole discourses about the meaning of death, of innocence, and the benefits of maturity from all of the above would need to be written, but there it is.
This is soooo going onto the site when the Games are over!