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Severus Snape is given redemption in a form he least expected — or wanted. When a letter with the power to change everything comes to light, Severus finds himself wondering if destiny is earned and whether or not it can be returned.

His daughter learns the answer over the course of seven years.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe, Girl!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Bullying, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Apr 2025 / 24 Apr 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None
Coming of age in a declining northern borough wouldn’t be easy for any eight-year-old boy. For reasons that defied logic, being named ‘Harry Potter’ only seemed to complicate matters. Second in the Storm Surge Series. Sequel to Grease & Lightning. HP&SS friend/mentor/Severitus-style fic. No slash.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Child fic, Kidnapped!Harry, Sibling Addition
Categories: Big Brother Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Profanity, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 67 - Completed: No - Updated: 03 Apr 2025 / 27 Feb 2024
Series: Storm Surge - Challenges: None
After little Harry Potter runs away from his relatives’ home for the sixth time, Albus decides something drastic must happen. Instead of sending a friendly witch from family services like he had done before, he sends Severus Snape in hopes of scaring the boy into staying put. But when a blizzard interferes with plans, Severus learns why Harry keeps running away and a change of plans ensues.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 43 - Completed: No - Updated: 03 Apr 2025 / 22 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway

A prophecy is only real when allowed to occur naturally, so when a series of unexpected events happen in the summer before 5th year, a second prophecy long lost deep in the Ministry of Magic awakens, telling of rare magic and an incredible bond to be forged between the most unlikely people. This magic and bond will be the end of the Dark Lord.



Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 64 - Completed: No - Updated: 01 Apr 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None

Severus is a teacher in Harry's primary school in Little Whinging, and he sees what everyone else has been too blind to notice.
Inspired by the song Concrete Angel by Martina McBride. Happier ending.



Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 29 Mar 2025 / 29 Mar 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
When six-year-old Harry Potter finds floo powder while cleaning the fireplace, he is accidentally sent over to Severus's Snape's house, where he discovers that Snape is his biological dad, he has a half-sister, and Aunt Petunia has been abusing him all his life. It's almost too much for little Harry to handle. Can Severus help this boy through the traumas he's suffered?

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Godfather Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Out of Character
Chapters: 41 - Completed: No - Updated: 25 Mar 2025 / 23 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry and Snape are back at Hogwarts, but things are different. Snape is back to being the harsh professor in class, and the turnaround when they're in private is giving Harry whiplash. Also, this new "High Inquisitor" seems to have it out for the both of them. Together, the two of them will learn to navigate a new world at war.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Cranky, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Sassy
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Mar 2025 / 11 Sep 2024
Series: It Takes a Village - Challenges: None
When Harry is bitten by a werewolf in his third year, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to navigate a prejudiced world. Due to the threat he would be to his relatives, Severus Snape is assigned as his new guardian, and together, they both face fears neither were prepared for. A Sevitus story.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Panic attack, Violence
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Mar 2025 / 08 Jul 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Harry is a werewolf
Sirius is finally free, and Harry is looking forward to having a real family who cares. But then everything falls apart. Can Severus Snape figure out what happened to Harry and the secret he is hiding? Harry and Severus are thrown together due to an impulsive action by Sirius Black. This story is a response to the prompt "Disowned" by Nightshade sydneylover150.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Mean
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Panic attack, Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 20 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Mar 2025 / 24 Aug 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Disowned
Severus Snape hates Harry Potter. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. Not even the boy’s sudden intrusion in his life. Or that cheeky smile. Or that all too innocent look. Or the sudden shift in his relationship with the Potter whelp. Not even those green eyes. No, nothing will ever change Severus’s hatred for Harry Potter – no matter how fond of him he was becoming. An eventual Snape adopts Harry story. Beginning in Harry’s first year.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 46 - Completed: No - Updated: 17 Mar 2025 / 09 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None

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