Harry blinked, then smiled as he recognized a visage he would never forget. He had hated this man, well, for years, wrongly, mostly.
"Hello, Snape. Out shopping?"
He grinned a bit at the ice cream, knowing it was a treat that few in the wizarding world seemed to even know about and somehow, not really surprised that Snape would be one of them. Severus had always had a way of breaking the rules in odd ways.
"How are things treating you, such as they are?" Such as they are. Such a simple phrase to stand in for being kidnapped and held and faced with someone you once and maybe still loved. Such a simple and yet utterly unsimple thing.