The Voice of the Snapedom
Art by Alan Rickman from Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman. Get the book wherever fine books are sold.
Savouring a perfect day in the park by Alan Rickman (2013)
Holidaying in Pringle Bay, South Africa by Alan Rickman (2015)
‘A Delightful Evening’ in Company of Friends by Alan Rickman (2013)
On the beach in South Africa by Alan Rickman (2013)
The Snapedom Awards on Tumblr
Masao the Dog (CorgiNub)
We discuss various events in Snape’s life and decide if they’re Good, Bad, Grey, or N/A
| Event | Good | Grey | Bad | N/A |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watched girls with “greed” | x | |||
| Befriended Lily, told her about magic | x | |||
| Made branch fall on Petunia –? | x(d) | x | ||
| Disdain for Muggles | x | |||
| Friends with Lily most of school | x | |||
| Fascinated with Dark Arts | x | |||
| Called Lily a Mudblood | x | |||
| Laughed at housemate’s pranks | x | |||
| Became a Death Eater | x | |||
| Relayed prophecy to Voldemort | x | |||
| Asked Voldemort to spare Lily | x | |||
| Asked Dumbledore to protect Lily | x | |||
| – And didn’t include James and Harry | x | x | ||
| Pledged to do “anything” for DD | x | |||
| Spied for the Order | x | |||
| Is a very sarcastic person | x | |||
| Was a hardass teacher | x | |||
| Bullied Neville, Trevor? | x | x(d,m) | ||
| Insulted Hermione, hurts her feelings | x | x(d,m) | x | |
| Bullied Harry | x | |||
| Protected Harry multiple times | x | |||
| – PS Quidditch | x | |||
| – CoS watched for Harry & Ron | x | |||
| Taught Harry Expelliarmus | x | |||
| – PoA goes to Shrieking Shack | x | |||
| Making Woldsbane for Lupin | x | |||
| “Outing” Lupin | x | |||
| Sprinting to 4th floor in his nightshirt | x | |||
| – GoF goes back to spy on V/mort | x | |||
| – OoP gives Umbitch fake veritaserum | x | |||
| Tried to teach Harry occlumency | x | |||
| Unbreakable vow | x | |||
| Saved DD, slowed curse | x | |||
| Killed Dumbledore | x | |||
| and saved Draco’s soul | x | |||
| Stopped Harry being crucio’d | x | |||
| As Headmaster protected students | x | |||
| Delivered Sword to Harry | x | |||
| Doesn’t tell Vmort about wands real master | x | |||
| Gives Harry memories | x |
Suffer-my-displeasure, aka Tinni, is an artist from Reykjavík, Iceland. Her real life job is in healthcare, working with Covid patients. She’s been creating and sharing digital art since 2008, and doing Snape-specific art since 2016. In Episode 16, we discuss her creative process, her amazing Snape art as seen below, Louboutin boots, and Snevor.
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Reference book in hand, Snape stirs a glowing cauldron in a dark room. the glow of the cauldron illuminates his face from below, as a couple of candles float in the air. The whole is done in shades of green.
Snape Finds out About the Snapedom
In this series of pictures, Snape accidentally discovers that he has fans online. At first, he shields himself from the laptop, but then he flees, eventually tripping and falling. In the last frame he looks up from the floor with a bemused expression.
Young (?) Snape’s head begins to emerge from a lily pond. In his hand is a jar full of a potion ingredient
At the end of a party Severus snoozes on a couch, in sunglasses and thigh-high Louboutin boots.
Where is he? Where did he get such expensive tastes?
Snape watches the snow fall out the window. “A quiet Christmas eve spent beside a cauldron fire with snow falling outside is all the gift I need” – from HPHM.
Severus is driving with Minerva riding shotgun, driving either into sunrise or sunset. Minerva looks smug and Snape is trying hard not to sneer.
Potion Master Preparing the Mandrakes
This shows Snape in a colorful greenhouse grasping a mandrake, he just pulled from the pot. He is wearing a green labcoat, earmuffs, and a look of intense concentration. Created ofr November for @snalendar-snofficial 2020.
Severus in the moonlight, which shines on healed scars on his neck. He also has short hair, does that signify a new beginning?
Dogma (1999)
Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Great food at a great price! Love the seafood plates as well as the salads. Excellent eating experience from walking in the door and being greeted by stuff, seated and drink order taken, was probably 5 minutes. Server was very helpful and friendly. We’ll definitely come back!
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
After the death of their father, three young girls find themselves in abject poverty. The responsibility to provide for the family lands on the oldest sisters, who are also dealing with heartbreaks.
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
A woman struggles to cope with the death of her lover, only to find that his ghost magically appears and moves back into her flat. When she falls in love with another man, she faces a choice between holding onto the past and facing the future.
Die Hard (1988)
Hoping to spend Christmas with his estranged wife, detective John McClane arrives in LA. However, he learns about a hostage situation in an office building and his wife is one of the hostages.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Robin decides to avenge his father who was murdered by the Sheriff Nottingham. He joins forces with Little John’s band of thieves to overcome the evils of the sheriff.
Snow Cake (2006)
Traveling through Canada, ex-con Alex Hughes picks up a vivacious young hitchhiker, Vivienne, who needs a ride to her hometown. Soon afterward, the pair are involved in a horrible car accident that kills Vivienne. Alex continues on to her home to tell Vivienne’s mother about her fate. Later he begins an affair with a neighbor who paves the way for his healing.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Sweeney Todd vows to seek revenge from the judge who framed him for a crime he did not commit. In order to do so, he reopens his barbershop and begins murdering his customers with a razor.
In Demand – Texas (2000)
Start a Family – Texas (2015)
Dogma (1999)
Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Great food at a great price! Love the seafood plates as well as the salads. Excellent eating experience from walking in the door and being greeted by stuff, seated and drink order taken, was probably 5 minutes. Server was very helpful and friendly. We’ll definitely come back!
DC_Fitzpatrick has 6 Colonel/Marianne fics in the Sense & Sensibility fandom https://archiveofourown.org/users/DC_Fitzpatrick/works?fandom_id=119270
CeleryThesis wrote “The First Night We Spent Together” which is a two-chappy Nina/Jamie fic for the Truly Madly Deeply fandom https://archiveofourown.org/works/6602644/
“A Very Potter Musical” (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC76BE906C9D83A3A) and “A Very Potter Sequel” (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86C718AEE71C9DE9) featuring Joe Moses as an overly dramatic Snape.
“Severus Snape and the Marauders” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmsntGGjxiw) is a slightly darker 25-minute fan film starring Morgana Ignis as Severus Snape. Beautiful special effects with the spellcasting!
In “Wizard People, Dear Reader” Brad Neely gives us hilarious parody narration over Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone featuring “that woman” Professor Snake: https://archive.org/details/wizard-people/ (play the sound in sync with the film)
“Potter Puppet Pals” web series by Neil Cicierega (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9958D49F9C2E92B) includes the classic episode “Mysterious Ticking Noise” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4) and Jal’s favorite “Snape’s Diary” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a8USS84F4)
Snape: A Definitive Reading by Lorrie Kim
The Harry Potter series may be named after the Boy Who Lived, but if you want to know the story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This hook-nosed, greasy-haired, grumpy character is one of J.K. Rowling’s enduring gifts to English literature. He’s the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: acerbic, yet horribly, deliciously funny. When he’s in a scene, you can’t take your eyes off him. Snape is always the story. – From the Introduction
In this examination of J.K. Rowling’s most enigmatic character, Lorrie Kim shows us how to sort through the illusions and lies to the man who dared to spy on Voldemort and without whom, Harry’s story would have turned out very differently. In his final moments, he asks Harry (and the reader) to “Look at me.” This book does just that.
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Her Minder: Book One: The Dostor by Teddy Raye aka Teddy Radiator
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/27249802 – “My Whole Existence is Flawed” (7k HBP-DH tragedy)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28292328/ – “Fridays I’m in Love” (27k post-war HEA)
Severus Snape, an eager new Death Eater, has a mission: to gain access to the information stored in the Department of Mysteries by befriending their new recruit, Persephone Payne. But what Severus doesn’t know is that Persephone, too, has been given a mission: to befriend him and find out more about the Death Eaters.
This is a prequel to my main fic, Soul of Ice – you can probably read this without reading it but it’s better if you do
This is formatted as a series of one-shots exploring the early years of Severus and Persephone’s friendship as they use one another and fall in love along the way. They will be varying in length and non-chronological.
Liz wants to rock and roll, and the mid-90s might have been the perfect time to do it. Her mother had other plans, mysterious and dangerous and glorious. One year older than HP, Liz’s own heroics are much more secret in their nature and much more muddy in their intent. Pureblood etiquette, elemental magic, and dubcon SMUT meet in this slow-burn that follows alongside HBP and DH canon. The Dark Lord *IS* the Black Hole Sun. Won’t you come? 😉
Vulnera Sanentur Series by Maria de Salinas
At the age of twenty-one, Severus Snape is about to become one of the youngest professors ever taken on at Hogwarts, a position he takes with some reluctance. When the Wizarding War ends with the death of the Potters, he must somehow manage to teach moronic teenagers all day while dealing with his grief.
At the age of twenty-one, Severus Snape is about to become one of the youngest professors ever taken on at Hogwarts, a position he takes with some reluctance. When the Wizarding War ends with the death of the Potters, he must somehow manage to teach moronic teenagers all day while dealing with his grief.
A troublemaker and lacklustre student at her primary school in the Isle of Man, Graihagh Corlett starts Hogwarts just as the war ends, determined to make a new start. When she discovers a passion for making potions, she’ll use them to help her quiet, troubled friend-and make the acquaintance of a budding Death Eater.
All Snape wanted was to hole up in his office for the next ten years. Now he’ll be faced with challenges he never could have expected.
Severus Snape has a habit of destroying all the good relationships in his life. But when one rears its head in the form of a child, he finds himself questioning the choices he’s making.
An OC story surrounding Snape’s daughter, and his complicated relationship with her mother.
A series of one-shots based on my main fic, Soul of Ice.
Memories of Talia Oakbrush by jalapeno_eye_popper
Talia can’t remember, and Severus can’t forget. An unknown curse has her setting her affairs in order, but the mysteries of the past and present must be solved first.
Severus Snape opens a charming little cosmetics shop in Hogsmeade after surviving the Battle of Hogwarts, leading to an adventure he never anticipated involving Tammy, the baker next door, and an old friend.
But all of that will pale in comparison to the biggest challenge of all: learning how not to be alone.
Snape is jealous when a Malfoy party leads him to think you could do better than him, so you kiss all the parts you know he’s insecure about. Probably my most popular Snape x Reader
Masterlist of Oneshots etc. by Sevsnapes
Stories, headcanons, playlists, etc.
Severus Snape never expected to survive the war, much less fall in love. Now, an alive and thoroughly baffled Snape finds himself making a new start on the Isle of Man, with the woman who has changed his life in a thousand small ways. But nothing ever comes easy for Snape, and the ghosts of his past, an underground cult of former Death Eaters, and a certain trainee Auror will conspire to throw him off balance.
But all of that will pale in comparison to the biggest challenge of all: learning how not to be alone.
After the fall of Voldemort, can the Wizarding world move on from centuries of lingering prejudices? All Hermione Granger, “heroine” and part-time agitator knows is, she is done.
Or so she thinks.
Soon, she is drawn back into the shady dealings on the Ministry and finds, to her surprise, a kindred spirit in the most unexpected place.
Like Walking on the Moon by Cunegonde
Remus Lupin has an outrageous habit of slicing up novels and only keeping the parts he likes. (The present author, following his lead, has written him a happier ending.)
An introspective, retrospective view of Remus Lupin and Severus Snape as they gradually pull into one another’s orbits.
Harriet Potter has always been odd. Between having a shadow that moves on its own and chatting with grass snakes, learning she’s a witch really isn’t the strangest thing to happen to the bespectacled girl with a lightning scar on her neck.
Harriet attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she makes new friends, encounters a prickly Potions Master, learns about the Boy Who Lived, and meets the enigmatic Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor, Professor Tom Slytherin.
Harry’s break from the Auror duties ends with him taking care of Hogwarts’ grounds. A message from Severus Snape finds him tending to the crops by his cabin. Where would such an unusual set of instructions lead them both, and what does the odd sprout found amid Hagrid’s old pumpkin patch have to do with it?
It’s the first Winter Solstice after the war, and there’s more than one Scrooge spoiling the festive atmosphere. Yup, it’s a Christmas Carol parody fic, because one can never have too many, right
An annoying event causes Hermione to choose to spend the Christmas break in seventh year away from her best friends, but Dumbledore feels she needs someone to watch over her. How will Hermione react to the appearance of the Potions master on her doorstep—and how will they interact when cooped up alone together for days on end?
“Send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Seraphim Beneath the Christmas Tree by starstruck1986
In a quiet, snowy village in the middle of nowhere, two people meet in shock after eight years…
Harry and Snape are (kind of) set up on a blind date. Romance and chaos ensues.
A London bridge and chips from Santa Claus
Severus and son do some holiday baking – this time for Hanukkah!
Returning to Hogwarts to teach, Harry finds an unexpected surprise. But can he really accept a secret courtship when he’s still dealing with feelings for the snarky headmaster?
Fridays I’m in Love by Jalapeno_eye_popper
When she returns to Hogwarts to finish her education, Hermione apprentices with Slughorn, but Snape is teaching her the most valuable lessons. After she’s dosed with a love potion, they both face hard choices and the limits of magic. No matter what happens, at least they have Fridays.
After the fall of Voldemort, can the Wizarding world move on from centuries of lingering prejudices? All Hermione Granger, “heroine” and part-time agitator knows is, she is done. Or so she thinks. Soon, she is drawn back into the shady dealings of the Ministry and finds, to her surprise, a kindred spirit in the most unexpected place.
Hermione Granger is an Unspeakable with the Department of Mysteries working exclusively within the Time Room. Her investigations into a group that worships the long dead Voldemort leads her back many years in the past.
Hermione Granger, employee of the Magical Entity Rights Commission has travelled to Azkaban to review rumours of prisoner mistreatment. During her visit, she stumbles across someone that she was pretty sure was dead when she attended their funeral.
Severus Snape longs to be a father.
Be careful what you wish for!
Hermione Granger, star employee of the Ministry Spirit Division, is called to Hogwarts to investigate some very strange occurrences.
Father to the Man by Delphi (rec’d by Grooot)
A restricted spell goes awry, and Severus Snape is left scrambling to cover his tracks. Meanwhile, Argus Filch turns out to be surprisingly good with small children, the nature of time is proven to be fiddly and anyone’s guess, and (at least one) Severus gets a second chance at life.
Wikipedia article referenced in the show regarding speculation on Death Eater behavior
A somewhat Nietzschean twist on Snape/Hermione. The Potions Master and his best student find themselves entering into a partnership that neither of them could have expected, courtesy of Lucius Malfoy
An Hour of Snape by Desert_Sea (SSHG)
Hermione Granger has paid for an hour alone with a Severus Snape look-alike. At least she thinks she has
A coming-of-age story for a nearly forty year old man. A good rec for virgin!snape
Hermione is forced to lead a double life when she agrees to Dumbledore’s plan to protect Professor Snape. Follows a (mostly) canonical timeline through books 6 and 7. Warning for student/teacher relationship, though Hermione is of age
The Sensual World by Teddy Radiator (SSHG)
Two years after Voldemort’s defeat, Severus Snape is placed in the care of Hermione Granger. When their personalities clash, who will Dominate, and who will submit?
When Hermione fills in for an ailing Pince, Severus reaps the benefits
Hermione is forced to lead a double life when she agrees to Dumbledore’s plan to protect Professor Snape. Follows a (mostly) canonical timeline through books 6 and 7. Warning for student/teacher relationship, though Hermione is of age
SnapeChat by OracleObscured (SSHG)
Snape works at a phone sex place and Hermione calls
“After Darkness, Light.” A chance meeting ten years after the war may not be just a coincidence, and may prove to have very far-reaching consequences. A story of many things, but primarily of healing
Determined to carry on his brother’s legacy, George puts an advertisement in The Prophet to find a male and female test subject for a new line of adult novelty products. The two that show up might just cause him to quit the business
London Calling by CryingCinderella (SSHG)
Living in Muggle London, hiding in plain sight, Hermione Bennett, as she is now known, finds herself out with friends one night. The ghosts of her past continue to haunt her when she sets eyes on someone impossible. Someone who is supposed to be dead
Never has Severus been so wet outside of heat. It’s humiliating; obscene
Auror Harry Potter has a life changing encounter at a bar
Warm by perverse_idyll (Snarry)
Severus still suffers the after-effects of Nagini’s venom, especially in winter. Harry knows just how to warm him up
Harry has reservations about the fancy dress costume that his new lover has chosen for him
Ever since the horcrux in his head is gone, Legilimency comes easy to Harry. It’s nearly laughable how easy it is, considering how much he used to struggle with it back in his fifth year. But he reckons half of that had been Snape’s fault anyway. But as life as Harry has known it changes, Harry’s opinion on the matter changes with it ― rather drastically so if he’s being perfectly honest
Made to be broken by theshopislocal (Snarry)
For all Severus is softer, warmer with Harry than he is otherwise, he’s still a prickly bugger and notably maladjusted, with strange, almost inexplicable habits that Harry is only now beginning to truly understand
Slughorn pursues Snape. An account of the burgeoning relationship between two Slytherins on the background of the events of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Liz wants to rock and roll, but her mother had other plans, mysterious and dangerous and glorious. One year older than HP, Liz’s own heroics are much more secret in their nature and much more muddy in their intent. Pureblood etiquette, elemental magic, and dubcon SMUT meet in this slow-burn that follows alongside HBP and DH canon
Mapping the Dungeons by jalapeno_eye_popper (Snack)
During his 7th year, Sirius has an encounter in the dungeons that inspires him to hatch a plan for a more complete Marauder’s Map. With a good excuse to avoid examining his own motivations, he doesn’t even think to ask himself what Snape is really getting out of it
18-year-old Snape’s entry into the Caligula-like coven, told through the interwoven perspectives of Bellatrix, Snape, and a few surprise cameos
Lupin follows his nose to trouble
A teenage Snape plots his revenge on James Potter for making his life hell, but little does he know that James has plans of his own that will send both their lives spiraling irrevocably out of control
Heated Acts by StarrySky_Fantasy19 (SS/HP/LM/DM)
A unique sexual bond and relationship between Draco, Lucius, Harry and Severus and their everyday life
Sex is not the main focus, but it deals with a sexually experienced Severus who is simultaneously not used to emotional closeness which seems to be one headcanon that spans various ships
CW: Animagus form sex, pwp
After the war, Severus Snape pulls Sirius Black from the veil, but now Sirius owes Severus and Severus is ready to collect
The ABC’s of Severus Snape: Village Broom by MyWitch (Snape/Everybody)
A is for Agatha, B is for Black, C is for Charlie, and so on. Snape works his way through the alphabet of the wizarding world in these amazing coloring pages by the uber-talented MyWitch
Okay so I’m a seamstress in real life and I have written one longer fic (unpublished) where my self insert works at Madam Malkin’s robe shop. This is a short one based on that premise. I wanted to capture how as a seamstress I relate to his little details.
The note read simply “My Office. Immediately after dinner.” On Monday Professor Snape saved me from falling off a moving staircase. Sparks shot out of our hands where our skin made contact as he pulled me to safety. Over the course of the week I have become obsessed…
Albus Dumbledore seems to be up to something… sinister. Severus has so many secrets to keep. Harry is just in over his head.
Her pale skin and silky blonde hair was incandescent in the afternoon sun, making it look like spun gold. Severus wondered what it would be like if that sunlight were to kiss his skin as well.
Waking up in bed beside a woman he is entirely too familiar with, Severus wonders why his life can’t ever just be simple. It isn’t until he is forced to deal with the fallout from his choices a week later, he realizes complicated may not be such a bad thing after all.
Her eyes fix firmly on him, unnerving him with how crystal clear they are. She blinks slowly, her mouth curving up into a small, Mona Lisa smile. He wonders for a moment what is going on in her head, but casts it aside almost as quickly. It matters not what she thinks or feels, just so long as she arrives safely on the other side.
After the war, all Severus wanted to do was live out his miserable existence in peace. But it seemed fate was not on his side, and things in his life were not at all destined to be peaceful or easy.
“Beautiful, isn’t it?”
The quiet voice at his side startled Severus, who came to alertness in an instant, his eyes snapping open. There, in the middle of the bloody desert, far away from the country he had fled several years before, stood Luna Lovegood.
During the night of Dumbledore’s death, Luna Lovegood wanders around the castle halls with a broken heart, then stumbling upon a friend and her pretty necklace where it leads her to borrow it.
What happens if the Time-Turner takes Luna Lovegood back to 1977 and is to stay there for the whole year? Even so, she makes sure not to draw awareness. And yet, a certain young boy with raven hair seems to look at her with anything but resentment. Somewhere close to… Awe.
Severus Snape is frustrated that another weekend is to begin. His boss advises him to calm himself down with a bit of walking. However, on that late afternoon, he sees a girl with pale blonde locks that stood near the borders of that bridge. He says he won’t bother her after what happened, that fate has already set what was ahead of them, and he didn’t want to stick around to witness it again. But something was different in the air and with her.
And her sudden determination scares him.
Strange things are turning up at the Shrieking Shack, which may actually be haunted after all. Years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Luna Lovegood investigates.
Of all people to be sitting vigil at his bedside, why this one? Although anyone else would have perhaps been equally curious. Severus Snape had not planned to survive, yet here he was, but why was she here? After all he had done to her and all she had suffered, why was Luna Lovegood here now? “Even when all choices are terrible choices, we can still make the best of them.”
Or “Touched”. Severus never expected to survive Voldemort. Now, he must learn to cope with life after the war … with a little help from none other than Loony Lovegood. A story of healing, friendship, and magic.
(the rape/non-con and underage tags are NOT in reference to the Severus/Luna relationship. just to be clear. Theirs is a fairly platonic relationship).
“I want to help.”
Slowly he turns, baffled. “You want to help me what, Miss. Lovegood?”
“I want to help you brew.”
“I don’t need your help,” he sneers.
She smiles, “I know you don’t need it, I only want to give it.”
An unexpected act of kindness, and an even more unexpected choice in footwear, have lasting impacts on Severus’ life.
Severus Snape has his emotions in check. He knows that he experiences anger and self-loathing and a bitter yearning, and that he rarely deviates from that spectrum… Until first-year Luna Lovegood arrives to his class wearing a wreath of baby’s breath. Over the next six years, an odd friendship grows between the two, and Snape is not sure how he feels about any of it.
Luna Lovegood has always seen things differently; including the surly Professor Snape. Will Luna’s kindness be enough to win over the dark, misunderstood professor?
It is not the most similar people who should form inexorable bonds; they are too alike, they do not need more of their own reasoning and heart. Opposite souls wind together and complete each other, each giving what the other lacks.
A short-lived series of private lessons took place after Christmas in Harry Potter’s fifth school year, during which Severus Snape attempted to teach Harry the skill of Occlumency. The lessons were ultimately cancelled when Harry was caught prying into Snape’s memories, discovering the strangest things: A mysterious prophecy connected Harry’s fate with Voldemort’s, Harry’s dad was an insufferable bully, and Severus Snape had been in love with Harry’s mum. Naturally, Harry now has a million questions. Snape would prefer to answer none.
*Most visited Snarry story of all time on AO3!
Severus Snape has been in prison for the past six years, but it’s not what you think—life in Azkaban is never boring. Yaxley’s atrocious gang is on the rampage (again), the canteen’s newspapers are absolutely scandalous, kitchen duty pays well, and smuggling in potions from time to time grants Severus protection and free tobacco.
After seven years in Azkaban, Severus is finally free. Unemployed and homeless in a world that has moved on without him, he has no other choice but to try and rebuild his life from the ground up. In the process, he will have to endure: a cursed apartment that breaks its own furniture for fun, a remarkably round owl called Britney Spears, and Harry Potter, who is obsessed with a potion that does not exist and has a soft spot for floral patterns and nail polish.
After barely surviving Nagini’s bite, Snape finds himself cast in a marriage of convenience with Hermione Granger of all people. Could it be just unfortunate circumstance or the beginning of something more?
Severus Snape has been in prison for the past six years, but it’s not what you think—life in Azkaban is never boring. And then Harry Potter starts visiting.
After seven years in Azkaban, Severus is finally free. Unemployed and homeless in a world that has moved on without him, he has no other choice but to try and rebuild his life from the ground up. In the process, he will have to endure: a cursed apartment that breaks its own furniture for fun, a remarkably round owl called Britney Spears, and Harry Potter, who is obsessed with a potion that does not exist and has a soft spot for floral patterns and nail polish.
Time, space, magic and even fate, are all relative. When Severus Snape is thrust into a situation where he learns this very quickly, can he stay in control? Will he want to? Hermione’s life has sent her on one chaotic ride after another. What’s one more?
Ten-year-old Severus Snape finds by accident his mother’s old trunks from her Hogwarts years. With no lost love for his parents and with a wand, books and an isolated life, he spends his days studying, practicing charms and spells that can give him some comfort, changing the way he lives and enjoy his life… Watch him grow up into a different person, influence the people around him, change the future of the world, create a new era for potions studies, but still killing people with his snarky mouth.
Severus Snape is about to become one of the youngest professors ever taken on at Hogwarts, a position he takes with some reluctance. When the Wizarding War ends with the death of the Potters, he must somehow manage to teach moronic teenagers all day while dealing with his grief. A troublemaker and lacklustre student at her primary school in the Isle of Man, Graihagh Corlett starts Hogwarts just as the war ends, determined to make a new start. When she discovers a passion for making potions, she’ll use them to help her quiet, troubled friend-and make the acquaintance of a budding Death Eater.
Still reeling from the death of Dumbledore, Severus Snape becomes Headmaster of Hogwarts with the aim of protecting as many students as he can. Despised, rejected, worn down by a war that seems unlikely to end well, Snape will be confronted with a dilemma: face his task alone, or turn to the only person left who trusts him, former student Graihagh Corlett, in hiding from the Death Eaters, in need of help-and very good at getting on his nerves. Sequel to Vulnera Sanentur, but it’s not necessary to have read it.
A Slytherin has stolen Lily’s wand, and she has a plan for getting it back, with her former friend’s unwitting help. Everything goes wrong, and not in the ways Lily expects.
Complete! AU, diverges from canon after Snape tries to apologize to Lily. Regulus Black is nothing like his brother, and when he and Severus cross paths, nothing can stop them or come in their way. From Severus’s last two years in Hogwarts to the end of the First War, lots of Black family drama and Death Eater shenanigans!
Severus’s family on his mother’s side decides to take him in. Follow up to “Unbreakable”.
Severus’s family on his mother’s side decides to take him in. Follow up to “Unbreakable”.
The seasons change and with them a relationship which neither side can define. Fleeting encounters, enduring curses, surviving a war. After the Battle of Hogwarts, true allegiances come to light, and life is irrevocably altered. There is also the small matter of the Death Eater, soon to be released from Azkaban, who doesn’t know he’s a father.
Two months after the battle at the Department of Mysteries, and back on duty as an Auror, another clash with Death Eaters leaves Tonks in a bad way. She returns to Grimmauld Place, where secrets aren’t the only poison.
Days after the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Tonks finds her way back to Snape. The solstice sunrise missed, the aftermath of combat uncovered, they begin to feel the heat.
Fragments. Snape is imprisoned after the war “for his own safety”
Andromeda and Narcissa think it’s high time Snape proposed to Tonks, so they scheme to give the couple a little alone time. With a weekend to themselves at the Malfoys’ Highland lodge while Teddy stays with his grandparents, Snape and Tonks find themselves surrounded by the past and possibilities.
Nymphadora Tonks is stationed in Hogsmeade. Severus Snape is the newly appointed DADA Professor. A few weeks into the school year and late one night in the corridors of Hogwarts, an Auror and a Professor run into each other. A diversion to the kitchens and a touch of Veritaserum creates a connection neither anticipated.
Fragments. Snape is imprisoned after the war “for his own safety”
Instead of expiring in the Shrieking Shack, after losing consciousness, Snape woke up at an Aerosmith concert in Boston. In emotional freefall, Snape’s circumstances conspire to connect to mandated therapy treatment. This is the story of that treatment.
Severus finds himself alive, mute, without magic, and in pain. He sets out on a walking trip of discovery. Harry is also suffering in the aftermath of the war. Eventually, their paths will cross.
To live out her days as particles of light, unthinking and unfeeling, would be ideal. Light had no boundaries while humanity had ever so many.
The war was over and she was free. Why, then, was she so miserable?
Remus Lupin hears a fellow student crying in the bathroom and asks if he can help.
Severus is nervous about the upcoming Winter Solstice Ball. Harry offers unconditional support.
Luna Lovegood has the power to see Professor Severus Snape for who she truly is. The teacher and student form an unlikely friendship, as Luna tries to help Snape be more comfortable with herself.
Snape is tired of people treating him like a girl – he is a boy with he/him/his pronouns. Transition from female to male. His name in this fic is Severa and then Severus. Features a transph*bic Regulus.
All Eileen Snape wanted in life was to have a little family of her own who she would love and protect, and they in turn would do the same for her. Features female to male trans!Snape whose name is Septima at first
Severus Snape knew from a young age that their family was different. Severus knew to suppress magic at home, and to suppress their gender identity at Hogwarts.
It was the robes, Snape suspected, that had allowed him to hide this from himself for so many years.
Very short but a classic, simple but elegant.
8 chapters and completed, written for the Trans Snape Week event hosted by snapeloveposts on Tumblr.
Comic featuring a non-binary Snape. The art is fantastic.
Essay by Racheline Maltese on Letters from Titan blog
The entire Wizarding world believes Lily Potter was murdered by Voldemort on that fateful night in 1981. But there’s another side to Lily’s sacrifice, ancient charms and hidden truths that may have the power to change everything.
Separated in the present with no foreseeable future, Severus and Lily must retreat to the past to find their way back to each other.
Lily and Severus reconcile after her marriage to James, beginning an affair that will have long-lasting consequences.
Severus Snape has never been the luckiest guy. This year seems to be no exception as Severus is entered into the Triwizard Tournament against his will, with no way out. With a push here and there, a little soul-searching, and maybe even the love of an old friend, this might just be the year his luck finally changes for the better.
Three fics in celebrations of The 2021 Snolidays
Up at the teacher’s table, professor Quirrell was talking to a teacher with dirty red hair hanging around her sickly pale face like a curtain. Looking past Quirrell, two poison-green eyes, devoid of any warmth or empathy, found Harry’s own brown ones, and he felt a sharp pain on his scar. Harry looked again, but the teacher was no longer looking at him. Still, Harry could not escape the nagging feeling, which he had gotten just from a glimpse of her eyes and the cruel twist of her lips, that professor Evans did not like him very much.
Snapetober ‘21 Collection: Ch.4 – day 20 + 22
Lily decides to get Severus drunk one summer night. Angst thereby incurred happily resolves itself into, uh, happiness.
It has been three days since she’s last heard from Sev. Three whole days without owls at her window. His home life isn’t the best, though he won’t talk about it. And out there, in the looming darkness, Voldemort’s power is growing. Destiny is nearly upon them. But through it all, Lily has always known what she’s wanted — who she’s wanted. But can best friends really become more? And is love enough, to leave the shadows behind?
Severus wakes up in the afterlife expecting something rather different than being almost-seventeen again. But wait – Lily’s come back, too – from 1981? Perhaps it’s a second chance… but for what?
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Hermione Granger — Weasley — Granger has scars: the ones the war inflicted, and the ones she inflicted. Mostly the ones she inflicted. And Hermione Granger has some wounds that never did heal; here in the smouldering aftermath of her marriage, they’re about to start bleeding anew.
Snape must have a fetish for grading papers, given the amount of homework he assigns. Having said that, sorry, this is decidedly NOT what you’d imagine given that background info. Morally gray, graphic, a bit dubious at times, and complete in two parts.
A conversation between Severus and Eileen Snape, circa seventh year, taking place at the kitchen table. In imagining that scene, I asked myself, “What purpose would a table serve, if no meals are ever taken at it?”
After seeing death, you can see thestrals. But what sights are revealed when gazing upon thestrals — or when they have gazed back, upon you?
It is Severus Snape’s birthday. Will it be a good day? Grooot wrote this gorgeous story for the LiveJournal 2019 Snapecase Fest, and MyWitch illustrated it.
Harry’s Christmas gift had enraged him. How could a birthday gift result in anything less?
Chocolate cake(s), Neville Longbottom, and a message from beyond the grave
Severus turns 62.
Growing up with the Dursleys, Harry never had the chance to experience all that the Christmas season had to offer. It is never too late to create new memories with those we hold dear.
Headmaster Snape had had his eyes on the ultimate goal and no time to feel sorry for himself for a long time, this Hellish year being no exception. That was until the hatred in Minerva McGonagall’s eyes reminded him of all of his sins… nearly breaking him in the process. He just didn’t think the last straw would have been about a stupid Christmas Dinner.
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Severus Snape hated the annual Hogwarts Staff Christmas Party. For one, he would have to socialise. Which was all that needed to be said, really.
Harry, Severus, and their daughter visit friends and family on Christmas Day.
Severus Snape was not at the first Order Christmas Party. He refused to even think about the second. Until it was upon him and no one would let him forget.
Snape’s brow sinks low over his eyes. “Why.”“Wh—?” Potter blinks twice then groans aloud. “What do you mean, ‘why?’” he says, snorting an incredulous laugh. “God’s sake, Snape, have you never got a gift before?”
Selected progress notes from Snape’s therapist after the end of the wizarding war. Co-Starring Leticia Rosenberg LICSW of Boston Institute for Family Therapeutics, with cameos from Frasier Crane
Hermione and Severus collect wild mushroom for potions-making, and have an important business conversation. Their discussion happens to be relevant to other matters of importance as well.
After the war, Severus Snape is sent to a Retreat for intensive therapy. Can Dr Hermione Granger help him or is she the one who requires therapy?
Snape and Hermione are newlyweds navigating Snape’s role as stepfather to her children.
Nineteen-year-old Severus Snape is dangerously close to the edge. As the young professor struggles with depression, habits that he’d hoped to leave behind resurface, and he once again finds himself craving the solace of his blade. It’s up to his mentors, Albus and Minerva, to find him help before it’s too late.
After returning to the Death Eaters Snape begins to crack. It’s up to Dumbledore to keep him together through the turmoil.
Sirius had not been sure exactly of what he was going to find in Snape’s home after Harry had asked him to take the git to his Healer appointment at St. Mungo. What he found managed to shock him anyway.
It had all happened on Wednesday 3rd of September 1973; Minerva committed the date to memory. She would always be amazed that this discussion could happen in the first place. If the boy hadn’t been unconscious, would they even have learnt anything before it was too late?
After I finished reading DH, I thought, wow, I really want to read Snarry that takes into account Snape’s feelings for Lily. Something where Snape and Harry’s relationship is based on how Snape felt for her, instead of being its own separate entity. Of course, all I could find was a plethora of fics where Snape tells Harry his love for Lily was only platonic, and that he’s actually gay.
After I finished reading DH, I thought, wow, I really Epilogue to Reconciling Lily’s Eyes that might not make much sense if you haven’t read that fic but still has some nice NC-17 bits, nonetheless. Not quite the same tone, but there was just so much more to tell after I finished that fic, I thought, Why not??
When WWW decides to add Headmaster Snape to their Wizarding Heroes Action Figure line, Harry begins a correspondence with Snape’s cousin to iron out the details of the prototype. Albert Prince Jr. has some very specific ideas, and Harry soon finds himself counting buttons and measuring cauldron bottoms in a bid to get the action figure to market, and to find out a bit more about this mysterious cousin.
Severus Snape is not-quite-dead. He’s living under Polyjuice, watching more than participating in the Wizarding World. But when Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes adds Headmaster Severus Snape to its Wizarding Heroes Action Figures line, he very much wants to have a say in how he is portrayed to armies of grubby children manhandling his person. And to do this, he faces a battle of words with the Toy Master himself, Harry Potter.
What happens when two men are given a second chance.
The last thing Severus can remember is overhearing a prophecy in a dingy, goat-scented pub. Now there’s a James Potter clone with Lily’s eyes, a much aged Minerva McGonagall, and an infuriatingly familiar woman with wild hair all saying he is not a loyal Death Eater. Looking in a mirror proves that he is, indeed, suddenly pushing fifty. All in all, not his best day.
Harry is divorced, two-thirds of his children are at Hogwarts, and he’s ready to start dating again. Ideally, someone who has no idea who he is. Lily suggests he should try Tinder and Harry is not a coward.
This is the story of how Severus and Harry meet again after 20 years.
This story is AU. What would have happened if Voldemort had understood that defeat, not death, conferred mastery of the Elder Wand and did not kill Snape? And what of all the stray Death Eaters that JKR forgot to mention? Like Bella Lestrange’s husband?
As far as he was concerned, Potter could have whatever he wanted, now. What was the point of trying to tell him no if he was going to be sacrificed on the pyre of the greater good? If Potter wanted to learn, Severus would be his teacher. If he wanted a master, then Severus would make him submit. And if he wanted a lover… well. Severus would love him.
Hermione Granger — Weasley — Granger has scars: the ones the war inflicted, and the ones she inflicted. Mostly the ones she inflicted. And Hermione Granger has some wounds that never did heal; here in the smouldering aftermath of her marriage, they’re about to start bleeding anew.
Snape must have a fetish for grading papers, given the amount of homework he assigns. Having said that, sorry, this is decidedly NOT what you’d imagine given that background info. Morally gray, graphic, a bit dubious at times, and complete in two parts.
The Severus Snape Lives tag on AO3, sorted by # of bookmarks
Old Reddit Thread with Snape Lives recs
A chance meeting ten years after the war may not be just a coincidence, and may prove to have very far-reaching consequences. A story of many things, but primarily of healing.
Hermione only wanted to learn Healing; she discovers that Professor Snape is a human being after all, and his actions dramatically shape the course of the war as events unfold. Complete.
MLC-Seventh Year student Hermione Granger decides to marry the one eligible wizard who did not ask for her-the horrid but powerful Severus Snape.
Snape must have a fetish for grading papers, given the amount of homework he assigns. Having said that, sorry, this is decidedly NOT what you’d imagine given that background info.
Hermione Granger — Weasley — Granger has scars: the ones the war inflicted, and the ones she inflicted. Mostly the ones she inflicted. Here in the smouldering aftermath of her marriage, they’re about to start bleeding anew.
Determined to carry on his brother’s legacy, George puts an advertisement in The Prophet to find a male and female test subject for a new line of adult novelty products. The two that show up might just cause him to quit the business.
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Harry and Severus meet after a year apart to discuss the events that tore them apart.
Lily and James spying on their son’s intimate moments. And occasionally joining in.
Are you willing to die for the one you love? Are you willing to kill for them?
Severus makes the same mistake twice (and he’s definitely going to hell for it).
Harry and Snape are (kind of) set up on a blind date. Romance and chaos ensues.
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When Harry defeats Voldemort, all those marked by Voldemort lose their magic. Snape decamps to the United States, where he becomes a fry cook in a diner. Five years after Voldemort’s defeat, Harry comes to him for advice.
Petunia lets slip a twenty-year-old secret, and Harry is sent to Spinner’s End to study Occlumency early. Severus Snape can see no way in which this could end in catastrophe.
During the summer before sixth year, Harry finds an injured bat in the garden and decides to try to heal it…and an unwilling Snape learns just what kind of a person Harry Potter really is. No slash.
MyWitch and grooot collaborated on an illustrated fic called ‘Happy Birthday’. MyWitch has been a professional artist for 30 years. Being a part of the Snapedom has allowed her to draw for fun once again. Her artwork and collab with grooot is discussed in Episode 11.
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Despite popular belief, Tobias Snape never actually regretted being a father
You and i have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead
You Should Be
What do you mean for the weekend, Lucius?
First day back at Spinner’s End after a difficult term
At some point near the end, Snape found the Mirror of Erised again
Took you long enough to get here
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