Thanks; I really wanted to capture the bitter-sweet feeling of visiting someone's grave- and it sounds as if I succeeded from your review ^^ (I was crying at the end too lol!) Saying goodbye to someone is always hard and, often, the hardest part is getting out the words- which is why Harry rambles so much- but, after a time, the sharpness of grief fades into soft regret and one starts to remember the person, not the pain of losing them. For Harry, this means remembering that Snape wasn't just a tragic hero; he was also a sarcastic, somewhat arrogant man who would find a degree of dark humour in Harry's thoughts and feelings and, as Harry grows older, he begins to understand and like Snape for who he really was.