Potions and Snitches
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When Snape overhears a conversation between the Golden Trio minutes before potions class, information about Harry Potter's home life is brought to light. Can Snape and Harry overcome their differences for the sake of healing and Harry having some semblance of a positive mentor/father figure in his life?

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Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Healer Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 15 Apr 2024 / 15 Apr 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
In Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry of Magic representative, arrives as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Cruelly tormenting Harry as part of her campaign to control the narrative about Voldemort's return, Umbridge escalates her punishment to casting the Unforgivable Cruciatus Curse. Harry endures the brutal torture, hiding his pain and torment from his classmates and friends. However, his teacher, Professor McGonagall, notices his struggle and calls him for a private discussion.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Torture
Chapters: 5 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Feb 2024 / 29 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
It all started with an unexpected meeting at King's Cross at the end of Harry's first year. The next thing Severus Snape knows he's stuck with the Potter brat.

Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Angry
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Neglect
Chapters: 15 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Feb 2024 / 14 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Coauthored by Esyrnrose and Sleeper102 - both of whom can be found on AO3.

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

What if Harry forgives Snape for all the hurt? How would Snape react to this? Snape has, after all, spent so much of his time wallowing in bitterness. Being forgiven is not something he expected. But what if Harry enjoys the reactions forgiving his enemies brings? What if he starts a trend?

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Jan 2024 / 28 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry gets ill, Snape makes an impulsive decision that will change both their lives. Under Snape’s guidance and tutelage, Harry will flourish and become as clever and cunning as a snake with the strength and heart of a lion. A Snape mentors Harry story. SEQUEL to Draught of Asphodel. Not slash. Set between 5th and 6th year. More notes inside.

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Stern, Snape Spanks
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Bashing, Eating Disorder, Neglect, Panic attack, Physical Punishment Spanking, Profanity
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 27 Jan 2024 / 19 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry discovers that Sirius Black is the one who betrayed his parents, he would like nothing more than to exact his revenge. Lucky for him, Snape shares the same goal. Together, Harry is sure they will hunt Black down and bring him in for the punishment he so rightfully deserves. Or so he thinks…

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Kind, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 4 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 23 Dec 2023 / 21 Dec 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
One-shot story set after So Close and before Far From Perfect. Severus and Harry are caught by surprise by a delegation of Gryffindors and teachers coming to terms with their new dynamic.

Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Nov 2023 / 13 Nov 2023
Series: Coming Home - Challenges: None
Harry has just returned to Privet Drive after his sixth year. Shaken, scared, angry, and feeling utterly alone. However, the Dursley’s, more particularly Vernon, takes things too far and looses his temper with Harry after he wakes up screaming a week after returning. This one event now has changed the course of a plan that Lily had made nearly fifteen years ago and causes Harry and Severus’s worlds to be turned upside down. Can the two come together as the family Lily had wanted?

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Resorting
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 29 Oct 2023 / 09 May 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Taking place directly after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry is trying to deal with his trauma from the course of the events of the war and struggles to confront it, along with trying to manage his grief. Snape survived but disappeared in shame and remorse after the battle. Harry finds him, and they both discover that they have more in common now more than ever - Both are struggling with their sense of self and purpose. But stray Death Eaters from the battle are re-grouping for a final stand to take out the great Harry Potter, and their traitor, and Harry and Snape must put aside their differences to end the fight once and for all, whilst dealing with Snapes' illness along the way. Explores darker themes of grief, self-blame, PTSD, depression, and suicidal ideation.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Character Death, Eating Disorder, Panic attack, Self-harm, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 65 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 02 Sep 2023 / 01 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
After finding out that he isn't the son of James and Lily Potter, but rather the son of Marvolo Riddle and Severus Prince, Harry decides to backstab his "friends" and rejoin the shadows.

Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe, Creature!fic, Evil!Albus, Good!Voldemort, New Identity!Harry, Pregnancy, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Character Bashing, Out of Character, Romance/Slash
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Aug 2023 / 26 Jul 2023
Series: The Dragon Legacy - Challenges: None

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