Oh, this was wonderful! I teared up at the end. :) Excellent Snape voice! And your Harry was really great, too. I loved Snape's sarcasm and the dialogue and all their interactions and bickering. And wow, even if the story itself wasn't dark, that was a dark post-war wizarding world you painted here. I loved this underlying darkness, how we got glimpses of it through Snape, confined along with him in his shop. My heart ached for Snape, even as I snickered at his sarcastic lines directed at Harry. And I so loved that thanks to this setting of Snape's confinement, it felt as if they were just the two of them in the story - my favourite kind of setting. :) Fantastic story, I enjoyed it so much. Thanks for a really wonderful read! :)