Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Genres: Family
 


Stories
“The Ministry takes a vested interest in ensuring our young witches and wizards are as safe as we can make them and you, dear boy, are very important to Minister Fudge.” Professor Umbridge said, simpering in a self-satisfied way as she said Fudge’s name. “So I must ask you where you’ve been this last August?”

Harry coughed into his tea and nearly spilled it over himself.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Deaged!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 May 2025 / 18 Feb 2021
Series: Namesake Necklace - 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: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 May 2025 / 19 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Snape arrives at Number 4, Privet Drive a day before the Weasleys make their way out there. He offers Harry residence at his home for the rest of his summer holidays. Severitus (eventually). No corporal punishment of ANY kind. Canon divergence as of the end of the first book.

Takes Place: 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 16 May 2025 / 16 May 2025
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: 32 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 May 2025 / 11 Sep 2024
Series: It Takes a Village - 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: 43 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 May 2025 / 23 Jan 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry Potter is no stranger to life turning out completely different to what he could have ever expected. He was an abused boy with murdered parents who turned out to be a wizard and the target of a dark lord after all. Given everything that had happened since he entered the wizarding world, he was used to his life being turned upside down. However, as the world gets torn apart by Voldemort's raging war in his 5th year, Harry is about to discover that everything he thought he knew all this time was a terrible lie and threatens to destroy everything he's created.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Character Bashing, Character Death, Out of Character, Panic attack, Violence
Chapters: 13 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Apr 2025 / 11 Nov 2023
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: 71 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 15 Apr 2025 / 27 Feb 2024
Series: Storm Surge - Challenges: None

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: 65 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Apr 2025 / 10 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
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: 03 Apr 2025 / 24 Apr 2020
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry, Draco, and Severus celebrate a quiet Christmas as a family.

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“Once upon a time,” Severus began.

Draco snickered.

Severus covered his mouth with his hand. “Once upon a time,” he repeated, “a dark wizard named Raczidian wreaked havoc on towns in Germany.”

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving
Tags: Alternate Universe, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Out of Character
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 21 Feb 2025 / 21 Feb 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None

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