Harry's sixth year ends with the Dark Lord's takeover. Harry gets to live - but why? After a gruelling summer, he struggles with sneaky attacks at Hogwarts and his power over Dark Marks. He realises the truth, and the Order tries to free him from the horcrux - but fails. Harry feels as if he is slowly slipping away… but help arrives from an unlikely source: Snape.
~Gen, plotty AU: a slow-burn, realistic mentorship between Harry and Snape (will become the focus) and Harry and Voldemort
Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year
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Snape flavour: Book Snape, Canon Snape, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 7th Year
Stories
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Nov 2025 / 19 Nov 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 14 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Nov 2025 / 19 Nov 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
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) - 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
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) - 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
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Drug use, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Oct 2025 / 19 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 04 Oct 2025 / 19 Aug 2025
Series: None - Challenges: None
After the Battle, the only thing that Harry wants to do is rest, but he notices that there is something that he needs to do first: bring Snape's body back to Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione will be there to help him, while they deal with the effects of the war and learn to find hope where there seemed to be none. Once they find out that certain Potions Master is not as dead as they thought he was, things will start to change. (Snape!Lives)
Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean
Tags: Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry), 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean
Tags: Depression Recovery, Injured!Snape
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Panic attack
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 20 Dec 2024 / 13 Oct 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 29 - Completed: No - Updated: 20 Dec 2024 / 13 Oct 2021
Series: None - Challenges: None
It's year six and Harry struggles with the visions he's inherited from Voldemort. Dumbledore is reaching the end of his time and needs to ensure someone will take care of Harry after the headmaster is gone. An incident in the Forbidden Forest where Snape must care for an injured Harry without using magic sets in motion far-reaching changes in their lives and in the magical world.
Alternative Year Six story written originally from 2004-2005 under the username GreenGecko. Canonical (as much as possible) through OotP.
This is the 5th edition.
Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Animagus!Harry, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Alternative Year Six story written originally from 2004-2005 under the username GreenGecko. Canonical (as much as possible) through OotP.
This is the 5th edition.
Takes Place: 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Animagus!Harry, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Panic attack, Profanity, Rape, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 73 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 May 2024 / 24 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 73 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 May 2024 / 24 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
The first time he hears it, he thinks it is just the October night wind wailing at the gates, mournful.
When he hears it next, two weeks later, he wonders again if he is not imagining it. A warm thrumming, a metal thwang, three minors capped with a major.
He stares at his nails when his fingers give a warm jolt, the traitors. From high above, a single note echoes, vibrates.
Magnificent.
In response to Musical Harry by Cayj.
Takes Place: 7th Year
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Snape flavour: Snape is Depressed
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Mar 2024 / 14 Mar 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Musical Harry
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Mar 2024 / 14 Mar 2024
Series: None - Challenges: Musical Harry
The thirty seconds before Weasley came and pulled Potter out of that frozen lake in the Forest of Dean were the longest thirty seconds of his life.
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Oct 2023 / 14 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 14 Oct 2023 / 14 Oct 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Sequel to The Choices We Made.
With Voldemort dead and Harry's cancer settling life should be returning to normal for Harry and Snape but things aren't always as they seem. Instead they find themselves challenged in new ways. When dangerous events start after Harry's return to Hogwarts can Snape figure out what's going on before they're torn apart again? HPSS mentor Healing/Coping
Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Azkaban Character, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
With Voldemort dead and Harry's cancer settling life should be returning to normal for Harry and Snape but things aren't always as they seem. Instead they find themselves challenged in new ways. When dangerous events start after Harry's return to Hogwarts can Snape figure out what's going on before they're torn apart again? HPSS mentor Healing/Coping
Takes Place: 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Azkaban Character, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Out of Character, Romance/Het
Chapters: 84 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Sep 2023 / 15 Nov 2020
Series: Choices We Made Universe - Challenges: None
Chapters: 84 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Sep 2023 / 15 Nov 2020
Series: Choices We Made Universe - Challenges: None
This is a little known story of what Potter and I did after the war. We kept it a secret, even from our spouses. After Scorpius was born, My wife fell ill, and I stopped using it. I needed to know at all times that she was okay.
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits
Rated: K
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Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Feb 2023 / 08 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 08 Feb 2023 / 08 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Christmas Eve 1997. All is not well.
Harry Potter's successful capture by Nagini in Godric's Hollow prompts some divine intervention and leads to astonishing revelations.
One of quite a few Harry Potter fanfics inspired by Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol".
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Harry Potter's successful capture by Nagini in Godric's Hollow prompts some divine intervention and leads to astonishing revelations.
One of quite a few Harry Potter fanfics inspired by Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol".
Takes Place: 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Jan 2023 / 24 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Jan 2023 / 24 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry has been found. Severus has alternatives to a gruesome death as a result of imminent torture in public.
It's a cloudy day at the beach.
Takes Place: 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry
It's a cloudy day at the beach.
Takes Place: 7th Year, 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Character Death, Out of Character, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Nov 2022 / 24 Nov 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Nov 2022 / 24 Nov 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None