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Takes Place: 3rd Year
Harry Potter vanished before his eleventh birthday. Neville Longbottom was quietly removed from his family when his magic failed to appear, written off as a squib and a liability. No alarms were raised; no searches were made. The wizarding world accepted their absence as inconvenience rather than catastrophe, trusting that what mattered would reveal itself in time. Years passed in uneasy peace, built not on certainty or victory, but on the assumption that someone else was paying attention. When Severus Snape is finally ordered to locate the missing boys, he goes with only fragments of truth and far too many years of delay. In rural Transylvania, he discovers what neglect leaves behind: damaged minds, fractured magic, and children the world decided were expendable. There is no Dark Lord to confront and no spell capable of restoring what was taken. Whatever fate once hovered over these lives is meaningless now — because silence, not prophecy, decided the outcome.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 1
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Completed: No
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Updated: 24 Dec 2025 / 24 Dec 2025
Series: None
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Challenges: None
Ten streets burned before the wizarding world ever noticed the Boy Who Lived was missing. At seven years old, Harry Potter survived a gas explosion that tore through Little Whinging, leveling houses and leaving the suburb a smoking ruin. Pulled from the wreckage and covered in burns, he was not found by rescuers, but by a Romanian werewolf. The creature regarded Harry not as prey, but with a strange, keen interest—something kinship-like in its hunger. While the magical world celebrated the legend, Harry vanished from history, left to crawl through ash and shadow, alone and unprotected. Time passed in the wilderness, shaping him into someone neither child nor hero. By the time he resurfaced, he was no longer the boy they had once promised to protect. Years passed before the Ministry found him — half-starved, feral, and living among Fenrir Greyback’s pack deep in the wilderness. The child they recovered was no hero, only a werewolf bound by scars and fear. To protect their image and the fragile myth of “The Boy Who Lived,” officials buried the truth beneath paperwork and propaganda. Harry was cleaned up, handed a wand, and sent to Hogwarts as though nothing had ever happened. But the frightened, silver-eyed boy who stepped off the train was a shadow of the savior they expected. He bore burns that refused to fade and eyes that never seemed fully human. In a world that worships symbols, Harry became a living contradiction: their symbol of hope now marked by monstrosity. He did not stay long. Within months, Harry disappeared from Hogwarts grounds without a trace, slipping into the wilderness once more. Rumors spread — that the curse had consumed him, that the Boy Who Lived was truly dead at last. Two years later, he returned, changed beyond recognition. No longer merely a wolf, he bore the chill mark of another curse — a vampire’s bite, turning him into a creature neither alive nor dead, neither beast nor man. Now a vaewolf, Harry walks the line between predator and victim, caught in a war between instincts and humanity. But he is not alone in the shadows: Sirius Black, now a Death Eater, has learned of Harry’s survival. The godfather who once loved him has become a predator, hunting him to exploit his monstrous power and serve Voldemort’s rising schemes. Every step back into civilization is a risk, every return to Hogwarts a dangerous gamble against a hunter who knows him too well — and will not hesitate to kill. Under Severus Snape’s reluctant guardianship, Harry must relearn what it means to live among people — to be student, not monster. Forced to repeat his first year, he sits among children two years younger, haunted by memories they could never understand. Every hallway whispers with his name, every candle flame flickers against his scars. Hogwarts itself feels different now, a place of watching eyes and half-truths. Yet as old enemies stir and ancient bloodlines begin to wake, the darkness within Harry calls for recognition. Somewhere between moon and ash, hunger and heart, he must decide what he truly is: human, beast, or the bridge between both. The Boy Who Lived didn’t die — he just stopped being human.
Takes Place: 1st Year, 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry, SuperPower! Harry, Vampire!Harry, Vampire!Snape, Vampires, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1
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Completed: No
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Updated: 22 Oct 2025 / 22 Oct 2025
Series: None
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Challenges: Cozytober 2025
At seven, Harry still reached for Severus’s hand in crowds. At eight, he stopped. At nine, he apologized when he did it by mistake. In the summer of 1987, Severus rescued him from the Dursleys and brought him to Cokeworth—a small, dying town outside Liverpool. While Harry comes of age during a brewing war, he struggles to become—and understand what it means to be—a man. As the world tries to make him a saviour, Severus fights to hold on to the seven year old boy who afforded him a second chance at life. Told in alternating perspectives, this is a story of growing up and of grieving the person someone used to be. There is a very ordinary love that holds you together as the world falls apart. Salvation is a person.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year, 3rd summer, 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry)
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Harry Potter is involved in a potions accident which ends up with him de-aging to a foetus and implanting in the womb of Severus Snape, who is a bearer. Severus can no longer spy, to the chagrin of Albus Dumbledore, but he uses it as an opportunity to show his true self, the person he has been forced to hide for over twenty years.
And maybe, just maybe, he can save his students from the pressures of war.
Mentions of physical, emotional and sexual abuse that various characters are trying to heal from. Many characters being bashed.
I don't own Harry Potter.
Takes Place: 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Baby fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Mpreg, Pregnancy, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Severus Snape, Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, assumed he was going to have a relaxing summer, but that all changes when an upset Lily visits him in his dream needing his help to save her son. Reluctantly Severus checks on Harry, discovering that all is not what it seems.
Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Injured!Harry, Kidnapped!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
After a severe accident at Hogwarts leaves Harry Potter incapacitated, he is placed under the care of the stern Potions Master, Severus Snape. Both are reluctant participants in this new arrangement, but during Harry’s recovery, a shocking truth is unveiled: Snape is Harry’s biological father. This revelation forces them to navigate their deep-seated animosities and painful histories. As Harry faces bullying and animosity in Slytherin, Snape struggles between his duty and emerging paternal instincts. Over time, they begin to understand each other, learning that true family bonds are forged through care and choice, not just blood. Despite the tension and challenges, their relationship transforms from one of mutual disdain to a fragile, yet genuine connection built on respect and newfound affection.
Takes Place: 3rd Year
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Snape flavour: Snape Disciplines
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 11
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Completed: No
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Updated: 16 Oct 2024 / 25 Jun 2024
Series: None
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Challenges: None
How far would you go to protect the ones you love? How much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice? How much would you deny yourself to ensure their safety?
Severus Snape knows exactly how far he would go, and there was still no turning back. Not until his mission was truly finished. James Potter and Lily Evans were the center of Severus’ world. If losing them both on the same night wasn't devastating enough, the realization that the Dark Lord wasn't dead continued to eat at his spirit. The Dark Lord would return, forcing Severus to play his part once again.
It’s been eleven years since the Dark Lord disappeared, and much to Severus' chagrin, Harry Potter has finally come to Hogwarts. Nothing would prepare Severus for pushing the last thing he had left of James and Lily away. As Severus struggles to face his mistakes, a young Draco Malfoy falls victim to a similar fate. For the love of his best friend, Narcissa Malfoy, Severus is driven to help Draco navigate the dark legacy that has been forced upon him.
As the Dark Lord rises again, Severus will do anything to ensure Harry and Draco's survival, even if it means burying his heart deeper to do it.
Takes Place: 0 - Before Harry is born, 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year, 2nd summer, 2nd Year, 3rd summer, 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year
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Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Secretive
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
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