When a stray boy suddenly appears on his porch, the sanctuary Severus built for himself after the war begins to unravel—invaded not only by the child, but by memories he thought he’d buried and a duty he never wished to claim.
Green-eyed, silent, and wounded by magic he cannot yet control, the boy leaves Severus no choice but to help him—and in doing so, forces him to confront the past he tried to forget.
And somewhere between silence and healing, Severus has to wonder:
Is the boy a ghost of what was—or a glimpse of what might still be?
Or
How Severus ended up being the go-to adult for a time-travelling past-version of the brat Potter.
Scylla and Charybdis by Asenora
Severus Snape is looking for somewhere – anywhere – to belong. He makes the wrong choice.
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Severus Snape and the Art of War by CypressWand
After his death, Severus makes the decision to return to the world of the living, starting in the summer of 1975. With his adult knowledge on the upcoming war hidden inside his 15 year old body, he finds his way back to Lily, and his new position in the wizarding world.
NO character bashing!
Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. (Or: a portrait of Severus Snape, in seven acts.)
Sirius desperately wants to punch Snape right in his stupid mouth. Just once. He’s pretty sure it will make him feel better.
All the Dark Places by dirty_muggle
Hermione always dreamed of working at the Ministry of Magic and making a difference in the magical world. But several years after the war’s end, her dream career has become a meaningless slog, and her personal life isn’t much better.
Severus survived the war and was acquitted of a permanent stay in Azkaban, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t in prison. Reviled by magical Britain, Severus lives alone, friendless and jobless except for one small, shady contract.
Desperate for something different, Hermione heads impulsively to Knockturn Alley, where a newspaper and a chance encounter with a stranger open her eyes to sex work. It isn’t long until she’s heading to Knockturn’s brothel, The Scarlet Witch, with ideas of undertaking a drastic change. Along the way she runs into Severus, who’s taken to reading in pubs to try and make his life feel less pathetic—when he can get out of bed. Angry at the world that’s rejected them, they form a close friendship. But when the magical world begins weighing in on Hermione’s new career and their friendship leads to feelings, they start to wonder: are people like them allowed happiness and love, or is the best they can hope for a half-life lived alone in the shadows of the world?
A/N: There are some heavy themes in this story, especially around mental health and sex work stigma. Please check the tags for content warnings. An extra warning that in some cases, I’ve chosen to use words related to sex work that are problematic or offensive because I felt like they’re authentic for the characters, their level of ignorance/understanding, and the time period (2003).
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Peculiar by DeepShadows2
Seven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, a changed Hermione Granger-Weasley returns, not as a student, but as a professor seeking refuge. Severus Snape, now Deputy Headmaster, finds his carefully constructed life disrupted by her arrival and the shadows of her past. As they navigate the complexities of divorce, personal trauma, and the lingering echoes of war, an unexpected connection begins to form. Their journey is fraught with emotional scars, hidden truths, and a past that refuses to stay buried. Can they find solace in each other while facing their own inner demons, or will the weight of their history prove too heavy to bear?
All That You Will Be by Morbidmuch
The last thing Hermione Granger expected after the war was to suddenly be made responsible for a not-so-dead Severus Snape
i hope this comes back to haunt you by humanveil
Severus Snape, from first curse to first kill. Or: The making of a Death Eater.
Eight-year-old Severus Snape wakes up alone at home only to be later dumped in another house. There, he must put up with an annoying toddler, a creepy cat and two adults that cannot be trusted.
The place is Godric’s Hollow and the year, 1981 —except for the fact that Severus thinks it is 1968.
So Lonely Without Me by Caligryphy
“You’re up first.”
“Am I…?” Severus Snape finally glances up from the yellowed edges of the Daily Prophet. He has read it six times, cover to cover, including the advertisements. There are seven spelling mistakes in the culture section. He has marked each one with a ring of red ink. Each time he sees the crossword, he laments having finished it the first day.
Potter nods and takes the newspaper. “It’s ready when you are.” The younger man sinks into the armchair after Severus rises. It is the only chair in the room. Potter usually lies on the bed or stretches on the floor, bare toes wriggling.
Contempt by danpuff
Harry hates Snape, and he always will. (He will, won’t he?)
After missing several Order meetings, Severus reappears 13 days later, injured and trapped Occluding. Sirius is tasked with Healing the man.
Sirius was not expecting himself to question his views about his childhood enemy, let alone fall for him. Severus does not make it easy for him. He vows to rescue Severus from the Occlumency induced wall he can’t escape from by himself, sparking off a relationship that ends up saving Sirius from his own prisons at high price for Severus.
A story that centralizes on Order work if Severus was no longer able to be a spy.
Severus had always known that he would die in a painful, most horrifying way ever since back when he was almost beaten to death by his father, then mauled by a werewolf, then thrashed around by a maniac overlord. His miserable, luckless life only seemed to lead to that one day when he would be struck down by a bloody snake, of all things.
Bleeding out in front of Harry Potter was just the last humiliation Lady Destiny had in store for him.
Suddenly staring into Potter senior’s eyes again while being levicorpused was just the icing on the cake.
Severus Snape has traded what might be one of his last peaceful summers for a tumultuous few months housing the Boy Who Lived after Hogwarts’ student registry notified him of a potential abuse case at Number Four Privet Drive. If that wasn’t bad enough, he finds himself revealing far more than he ever should have—and far more than Albus Dumbledore ever would have allowed—to the boy about his past, and his mother. When Sirius Black reveals himself with the intent of saving his godson from Snape, the three of them end up standing begrudgingly together to find Peter Pettigrew and clear Black’s name before the proper authorities can be involved.
Harry finds solace in the unexpected care of an unjustly convicted man and an ex-death eater; meanwhile Black grapples with repressed attraction to the man he’d spent his childhood tormenting.
masao’s art inspired by Godfathers
Lounging
Victory
Snackin
She wakes with a gasp in the hospital wing. The first thing she registers is that the ragged gash across her chest has reopened, pulsing with the same searing pain as when she sustained it at the end of fifth year. The second thing—
“Granger, try to take slower breaths. I’ll have your next dose of healing potion ready soon.”
—is that Severus Snape is somehow alive.
(Or, the one where Hermione gets stuck in an Edge of Tomorrow style time loop that resets back to summer 1996 each time she dies.)
masao’s comic
as corgi-nub
Harry is in trouble again. When immortality is forced upon him, there is only one person who can help. Severus Snape, the wizard who refuses to die.
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.
Severus Snape was 18 years old.
Today was November 8th, 1977.
And on May 28th, 1978, he was going to kill himself.
For the sixth months leading up to it? Severus was going to be happy. Even if he had to make it with his own hands.
The first Christmas after the War is approaching, and Professor Snape is still in a coma
This was done for 2021 hoggywartyxmas and is based on a story by rayvyn2k. It’s beautiful and you should read it! 😀
All kinds of awesome works by MyWitch, including 25 Days of Drawing and The ABCs of Severus Snape, Village Broom
Beautifully illustrated comic of a very special gift from Minerva to Snape
tumblr post of 25 great Snarry holiday reading
On a wintery Sunday evening, Severus invites Hermione to his house for a homecooked meal for their third date which happens to be the first night of Hanukkah.
Minerva is angry. Harry is smitten. Severus is afraid. Just another Christmas at Hogwarts!
Severus died at the jaws of Nagini in May 1998, but instead of taking a well earned rest in the afterlife, he finds himself back in Cokeworth…in December 1975.
Note: This is tagged as Snily, because it touches on their relationship (and well, you’ll see) – but be warned that the prompt explicitly asked for them not to get together…
When Hermione returns to Hogwarts as a transfiguration apprentice, she’s surprised to find that the library doesn’t feel like the refuge it used to be. After the castle opens a new reading nook for her, Hermione frequently finds herself offering to share both the space and her books with Severus Snape, a rather inconvenient development in light of her growing attraction to the cranky potions master.
As Severus takes care of Harry he starts to look back on his own childhood. Memories he rarely revisits resurfaces. There were similarities with their past, but also endless differences. He slowly notices how he differs from his parents and his past.
Remus spends Christmas Eve alone at Grimmauld Place. Severus visits him.
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Potions and Parchment
The question isn’t where we go at the end of our lives. The question is what we do when we know it’s coming. Crookshanks calls a council to help him decide on a successor to ensure that his family will be properly cared for when his time comes. Warnings: Discussions of death and pet loss, rhyming verse, literary homage
Ron leaves his job as an Auror and his engagement in one fell swoop. His jilted fiancée is out for blood and is displeased to find that Ron has a staunch defender in his new employer and that he’s more than capable of standing up to her
Hogwarts’ headmistress threatens the integrity of the school with her reforms, so the Minister sends his most talented Unspeakable undercover to bring her down from within. What Hermione finds will change her life forever
The Room of Lost Dreams
In the aftermath of the final battle, Hermione seeks a way to make peace with the dead. She finds a hidden room, an enchanted journal, and the opportunity to save a man’s life
Hermione finds signs of a health threat to the wizarding world near a hidden chateau in Avignon, but is she prepared for what she’ll find inside?
Unbeknownst to Harry, Hermione sees who casts the silver doe in the Forest of Dean, and she becomes even more determined to save Harry and Severus. A retelling of Alfred Noyes’s “The Highwayman” in verse
Hermione desperately wants to make a good impression on her son’s first serious boyfriend, but when he arrives wearing a dead man’s face, she has more questions than simply the young man’s intentions toward her son
On the eve of a Big Birthday, Lucius is painfully aware of all that’s missing from his life and exactly how much scheming will be required to obtain it. SS/HG, SS/HG/LM. Very rude content
An ambush by goblin wand rights activists forces Hermione to delve into the secrets of the past in hopes of making equality for all magical beings a reality
The Hogwarts Express is sabotaged, and a passenger is found dead. Minerva McGonagall must team up with Magical Law Enforcement to investigate. She finds that all is not as it seems. Inspired by Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express
Severus Snape, whose magical equivalent of general relativity has revolutionized spell casting, is content to ignore the larger ramifications of his work until circumstances conspire to bring it to his attention
Until Proven by tiranog
Professor Harry Potter finds himself defending his former nemesis when Professor Snape is accused of molesting a student
In Between Days by atrata
Snarry. Snape kidnaps/rescues a clinically depressed Harry from the Dursleys, but nothing is quite what it seems.
His Mother’s Eyes by blackwhitelight
Snarry. Dead Dove. Harry always has a cunt when Snape fucks him
“You must understand that you’re putting me in a very difficult position,” Severus says softly.
“I know,” the boy mutters.
“And if anyone were to find out, I could lose my job.”
“Sir, please. I won’t tell anyone, I swear. I’ll do anything.”
Severus sighs heavily, reluctantly. But secretly his heart is thumping in anticipation. “Very well. Get on with it.”
There is a pause. A few shaky breaths again. Potter’s eyes dart up, look around the empty lot, either to ensure that there is no one around to see, or perhaps hoping for a way out, an escape. But there is no escape, Severus has made sure of it. He’s worked hard for nearly a year to make the boy understand that he is the only escape.
SSHG Women… have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no…
Written pre-Deathly Hallows an age ago.
Snape/Reader After the debacle at the Ministry of Magic your father has fallen into the Dark Lord’s disgrace just as the Malfoys. If you had been born a son you would have been forced to take the Dark Mark.
But you are not. You are one of three daughters. Useless. Unable to pass down your father’s name.
To protect your younger sisters and father you agree to carry the family’s sin. You give up the life you’ve been preparing for, a faithful and obedient wife and mother and find yourself at the feet of the Dark Lord’s second in command. His most trusted advisor.
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.
Snarry Harry is a prisoner of the Dark Lord and Snape, his prison guard. Completely cut off from the outside world, Harry struggles to hold himself intact as he is forced to rely on Snape for everything. Yet Snape may not be all that he appears….
Snarry. Snape’s POV of Nights of Gethsemane. Incomplete, but worth reading because Snape is so clever here
Night Watch by mia_ugly
Snarry. Another retelling of Nights of Gethsemane from Snape’s POV
Lily/Snape Lily/Death Eaters Lily/Lupin. Lucius’ grand plan for dealing with Lupin was the Imperius curse, courtesy of Mulciber. Severus was a bit disappointed that it was something so relatively non-violent, but it bought him nearly instant access to Lily, so he could hardly complain.
SSHG On the night the light is defeated and the dark wins, Lord Voldemort grants a boon to his most valued and trusted spy. This is a very, very dark and disturbing story of pain and punishment. If you find the idea of non-con and dub-con unsettling, please understand this will not be the story for you. At the heart of this story lies a mystery. All will be revealed if you dare to continue.
Snack In an Everyone Lives AU (i.e. nobody died at the Dept of Mysteries or Battle of Hogwarts), there’s far too much of a risk that a Death Eater would find another way to resurrect Voldemort. Severus is determined to prevent this possibility, permanently. Sirius also wants a permanent solution to the out-of-control Death Eaters, but it’s only a matter of time before one of them makes a mistake… This story is gritty and violent, but HEA.
Revenge is Sweet (FFN original post / AO3) by BlueHorizon6
Jeverus 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.
Snarry. 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
His peace of mind is disturbed when Harry Potter comes to visit.
Snarry. 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.
(Or: when Severus Snape was fifteen, he made a terrible mistake. When he was forty-six, he made it again.)
SSHG 500 points from Gryffindor! The largest single point deduction in Hogwarts history. Headmaster Snape is determined to make Hermione Granger earn the points back . . . the hard way. But the big question is ‘Why?’
SSHG WIP 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?
SSHG Alone in a dubious part of Wizarding London, Hermione is rescued by Snape, whose protection is as bad, or worse, than the danger from which she was fleeing. Dead Dove
Snape Fucks Everybody Voldemort Wins AU. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are purchased and trained as sex slaves by Snape, but there is more than meets the eye. Harry takes to it like a duck to water.
Snape/McGonagall Minerva McGonagall has outlived most of her contemporaries and resides in peaceful retirement on a Scottish hillside. Aware that her life is nearing its end, she agrees to share her memories with a sympathetic biographer. There’s just one snag: this means facing a period of her life she has chosen to forget. Specifically, that terrible year under Headmaster Snape and the truth about what happened between them.
Currently unavailable. Snape’s sexual activities as a young Death Eater
War Prize (Comic)
In a timeline with no prophecy, Snape never betrays Voldemort and remains a Death Eater. An altercation between Snape & James Potter ends tragically, and Snape is forced to decide the fate of Potter’s young son.
Harry Potter is supposed to be dead but Draco can still hear him screaming. Mind the warnings…
When Harry is cursed, he seeks out Severus Snape. They have a long history behind them, after all, and they’ve always had so much between them. Who else would he go to?
Ttime42 on AO3 FFN Potions and Snitches
The Draught of Asphodel
When Harry accidentally drinks a brutal potion with roots in dark magic, he has to reluctantly rely on Hogwarts’ prickly Potions Master to fix the outcome.
The Elixir of Amaranth
SEQUEL to Draught of Asphodel. When Harry gets ill, Snape makes an impulsive decision that will change both their lives
Quidditch and Quietude
Harry is looking for some peace and quiet after a rough quidditch match. He knows just where to go. Assume established severitus. 6th year-is
That Awful Boy
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.
The Pauper Prince
“That Awful Boy” sequel. Summer is over and as Voldemort prepares to make his move, Hogwarts is suddenly far from the safe haven it once was. Given the chance, Severus finds that he and Harry are not so different after all,
Dog Days
Missing scenes from the ‘That Awful Boy’ series.
Serena’s Masterlist: Severitus on tumblr,
Updated semiregularly
Surrender (fic and podfic)
Harry ends his life within the Veil after losing Sirius, and Severus spends every day visiting, wondering if he should follow.
A small step for a boy
After having been rescued from the Dursleys, Harry continues to struggle with eating; and Severus struggles with watching Harry struggle – until a pomelo comes along.
Christmas in Limbo
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.
oliversnape on AO3 FFN
Value of One’s Word series
Far Beyond a Promise Kept and A Promise Upheld, Guardian-ward relationship, adoption
The Definition of Home, The Definition of Family, and The Photo Album. Mentors, adoption, Father-son Relationship
Keep Your Enemies Closer
Brothers. Two stubborn wizards are stuck together (literally!) trying to kill Voldemort for good
Hindsight is 20/20, but when Harry’s last steps into the forest set him back further than he’d ever thought, he never realised how grateful he’d be to have Snape there to help too
Common Interests series
Remembrance, Common Interests, and Raven’s Choice. Mentor/Protege’, Blood Adoption.
Neglected by his caregivers, little Harry would not have survived were it not for the mysterious dark angel who helped him. Harry never knew his name, until he went to Hogwarts and discovered a certain professor bore a remarkable resemblance to his savior
Broken Wings, Two Hawks Hunting, The Greatest Gift, Worth Saving. Mentor, Blood Adoption.Desperate to escape his guilt and nightmares after the third task, Harry transforms into a hawk by accident and ends up breaking both wings and suffering partial memory loss. He is found by Snape,who helps him and discovers the truth about his professor
Lomonaaeren on AO3 FFN
World in Pieces, Inside View, Counterpart Positioning, The Basilisk and the Unicorn. A series about what happens when the Order of a Phoenix in another world keeps summoning Harry Potter to defeat Voldemort, the Harrys keep dying, and then they get the Harry from canon
Voldemort wins AU, Biodad!Snape. A Death Eater’s son becomes the secretly reared and hidden savior
Harry finds out that he’s Snape’s son. It goes as badly as possible. works through the consequences of Harry finding out he’s Snape’s son if his support system isn’t strong enough to withstand that revelation
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.
Mothboss on AO3 FFN Potions and Snitches
Storm Surge series
Grease and Lightning, and Acid Reigns. Big Brother Snape, Abusive Dursleys. On a hot July day in 1988, the Dursleys do not return from church.
Guardian Severus Snape. James Sirius Potter was prepared right out of the gate to follow in the footsteps of his namesakes. The only thing that could likely have deterred him would have to have been one hell of a distraction.
Chills Series
Portrait of a Headmaster, Chills of a Doom, When We All Sing Amen, Walking Alone, and Chills Dissolved.
Teacher Snape, Parental Snape, Snape Comforts. A series of five short stories composed of five chapters each. 7th year to Post War.
Teacher Snape, Trusted Mentor Snape, Overly Protective Snape.
Harry suffers consequences of surgery in the summer after his first year at Hogwarts.
KneazleGriff on FFN
Harry’s been beaten by his uncle, tortured by Voldemort and consumed by anger and guilt over the death of his Godfather. But when a mysterious stranger from the future finds a way to bring about change by forcing the truth, is there hope for the future?
BioDad Snape WIP. Eleven years ago, a child of prophecy was born under a shroud of secrecy. A complex web of deception kept the boy and his father safe, shielding them not only from danger, but from truths too painful to reveal. Unfortunately, that web of deception also deprived them of the one thing they both needed most. Each other.
Veritas Omnia Vincit by Heatherlly
BioDad Snape. Lily and Severus reconcile after her marriage to James, beginning an affair that will have long-lasting consequences. Part I is Snily, Part II is Severitus.
Teacher Snape. When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.
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.
Platonic soulmates. Snape’s position as a spy is compromised when Harry’s life is threatened. The beginnings of a journey together. NOT HBP COMPLIANT ch27 quote: Snape studied him seriously, his black eyes searching Harry’s green ones before saying, “I can do all those things”.
Ongoing series. A Year Like None Other, A Summer Like None Other, A Family Like None Other.
A letter from home? A letter from family? Well, Harry Potter knows he has neither, but all the same, it starts with a letter from Surrey. Whatever the Dursleys have to say, it can’t be anything good, so Harry’s determined to ignore it. But when the Potions Master forces him to read his letter, Harry gets sent down a path he’d never have walked on his own.
BioDad favorite. Harry has been training hard to fulfill his dreams of becoming an Auror after the Final Battle, but when the last test reveals a secret kept from him his entire life, Harry must find out a way to reveal the truth. In a race against time to graduate with his class, Harry finds out more than he bargains for, and someone thought to be dead may hold all of the answers.
AU. Time Travel. Snape goes back in time, holding the knowledge of what is to come if he fails. No longer holding a grudge, he seeks to shape Harry into the greatest wizard of all time, starting on the day Hagrid took Harry to Diagon Alley. The first Severitus SerenaEW ever read.
Warnings Inside. Dumbledore ought to have known better than to leave an orphaned Harry Potter in the hands of the Dursleys. A twist of fate has the boy-who-lived living with criminals. Sly, cunning, street-smart, sorted into Slytherin where his housemates have been raised to hate him, will Harry survive? Or maybe it’s the House of Snakes that doesn’t stand a chance
BioDad Snape. After his father’s death, Harry writes a letter to him in reflection. Sevitus fic.
Part of The secret language of plants series.
Severus rescues young Harry from the Dursley’s and brings him to Remus’ place to hide him and raise him.
(Snames) Severus had always believed that romance wasn’t for him. Everyone else believed him to be filthy death eater scum, and he agreed, never fathoming the concept of someone liking him enough to actually pursue a relationship with him. Until one fine day in sixth year, when he finds himself with a small, adorable child clinging to his right leg, calling him Papa.
(Snames). 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.
(Snames, no Harry) James really wants to go to the New Year’s ball with Lily, but she has one condition – James has to befriend her best friend and his archenemy, Snape.
BioDad favorite series. Just Like His Father, His Mother’s Eyes, and Best Day Ever.
A careless mistake causes a catastrophic accident that reveals secrets long-hidden which could alter the course of Harry’s life forever.
MPreg. After the death of the Potters, a grieving Severus Snape runs away to live in seclusion where no one can find him. After years of peace and quiet, a broken Harry Potter shows up also wanting to forget it all. Will these two lonely runaways find the new start they are looking for, and the family they never had?
For those who felt Snape was cheated in the books… the life he should have gotten. Beginning right after the last page of DH, a new danger forces Harry and Snape together and makes them see the…good (!) in each other.
Master Snape, platonic soulmates?. A duel with Draco leads to drastic and permanent consequences for both Harry and Severus.
we’ll keep the king by BlueSundayCake
On a cold December morning, Remus Lupin shows up on Severus Snape’s doorstep with a child with very familiar eyes.
AU The Dursleys taught Harry to fear and hate magic and all things magical including himself. Now how long will it take the wizarding world see the damage done? And can they ever hope to fix it? Disturbing. WIP
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.
Moment of Impact, Regards Harry, One Man’s Island, A Summer of Flotsam and Jetsam. Mentor Snape.
An accident the summer before 6th year puts Dumbledore’s plans for Harry in motion sooner than planned. Will an unexpected truce with Snape better prepare Harry for what is to come?
Platonic Souldmates. Harry is convicted of Ron and Hermione’s death and thrown into Azkaban. Years later he is released when his innocence is proven. Tired of the hypocrisy and betrayal of the Wizarding World, he decides to leave. Will he really go through with it?
Reverse Severitus. Harry died – again – and woke up in King’s Cross – again. This time, he was alone when a train came for him. But his next great adventure wasn’t onward, it was backward, and Harry found a new destiny and a world to save – one child at a time.
A series of one-shots over the course of nine years of Harry’s life in Hogwarts and with his adoptive father, Severus Snape.
Toddler Harry. All is not well on Privet Drive, and one Christmas Eve, Severus Snape is called upon to intervene.
Series. Sons Our Fathers Wanted, and Seven Years a son.
This is the story of how Severus Snape became the father of one Harry James Potter, and then, the story of how Harry Potter was still Severus Snape’s son— even after seven long years apart.
The Dursley family move house, and Harry is horrified to find that they are now living opposite his most hated Potions Master. Between Snape and the Dursleys, will Harry make it to the Burrow in one piece?
The Fateweaver by SerenaEW
At King’s Cross station, Death gives Harry a choice – between permanent death, return to a blissfully unaware semi-comfortable life after Voldemort, and his true destiny as Fateweaver who, together with his Guardian, will shape his world for centuries to come. As usual, Harry’s saving-people-complex makes him realise that his task has only just begun, so he travels back in time to re-weave the fate of the magical world.
After all, a flighty soul could not return to the water, or to the earth, as they maintained all life eventually should.
(What one did not have, they believed, could not be broken.)
Prologue to the merman!Snape, amnesia AU no one asked for.
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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.
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That Awful Boy by paracosim
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
Snape is told some bad news, and it goes downhill from there. MPREG.
Harry Potter takes care of a man he hates in a broken universe.
Minerva McGonagall has outlived most of her contemporaries and resides in peaceful retirement on a Scottish hillside. Aware that her life is nearing its end, she agrees to share her memories with a sympathetic biographer. There’s just one snag: this means facing a period of her life she has chosen to forget. Specifically, that terrible year under Headmaster Snape and the truth about what happened between them.
Do Not Go Gentle by senlinyu
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.
It was subtle at first. For the first several months, she assumed it was merely the stress of the war; for the next several months, she assumed it was the stress of the trials; then when winter approached, she assumed it was stress from school.
She kept assuming it was stress until she was walking to the cabinet to retrieve her supplies for Potions class and the walls began closing in, wobbling and swallowing her up.
When she woke again, she was in the Hogwarts hospital ward.
Severus Snape stood at her bedside, staring down at her with an expression of profound irritation.15
Orbital Decay by thefrenchpress
After seeing Severus Snape in an Alleyway in Muggle London, Hermione becomes concerned about her former professor, and begins to investigate his life after the war. What she discovers does not seem promising, and Hermione begins a crusade to get him the help he needs without falling apart herself.
Following the loss and tragedy of war, Hermione Granger has found happiness, love, and the life she dreams of. And Severus Snape will stop at nothing to free her from it.
A Most Unlikeable Man by LunaP999, thefrenchpress
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.
Severus Snape owns a flower shop, and his customers often wonder how someone always surrounded by such beauty could be such a grumpy bastard
Sea-Change by LunaP999, thefrenchpress
When he’d left his old life in the rearview, he’d told himself that he would live by the sea. And so he’d packed up what he wanted to keep and sold the rest, picking up his entire life and moving across the Atlantic, where nobody knew or cared about the name Severus Snape.
Life rarely went to plan, however, and Severus’ new life is turned on its head with the arrival of Hermione Granger in Nantucket.
His sleep is no longer peaceful; plagued with images and memories. He can’t Occlude when he sleeps, leaving the walls down and letting the past flood in. Lately at night, he sees flashes of his childhood.
It was better when he didn’t dream.
don’t leave me out in the cold by thefrenchpress
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.
When the Ministry of Magic passes a marriage law that forces people to marry and procreate, Hermione can think of only one thing she has in common with her husband: she has no idea how she’s going to get used to being the new Mrs Snape either.
liminal by nikikori, thefrenchpress
Prophecies have been ruining Severus’ life for nearly two decades. And now it seems a bewildering former student is about to complicate the relative peace he has found after the war, hurling his life into chaos once more.
After the war, Severus lives from pay-check to pay-check only to barely make ends meet. When an opportunity appears in the classifieds of the paper, he has no idea what the summer has in store for him.
En Passant by nikikori, thefrenchpress
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.
On an extended vacation in the south of France, Hermione runs into someone she wasn’t expecting to and her world is reshaped
Dark as the New Moon by nocturn
Remus awoke two weeks ago in St. Mungo’s to the scent of caustic potions, blood, and grief, and he hasn’t been able to see anything since. And his ward mate, who smells of regret and desolation, hasn’t said a single word to him.
(Or, there was only one hospital ward.)
Severus didn’t want to admit it, but waking after the war to find himself two-dimensional—with no life-endangering missions, duplicity, or outlets for his self-hatred—was… rather boring. At first.
A Step in the Right Direction by nocturn
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.
Remus gets stuck in a precarious situation when leaving Hogwarts at the end of his tenure as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
Artemisia Absinthium by Gertrude_Crow
– four part series. AU set during the First Wizarding War. Severus has defected from the Dark Lord, and become a double agent for Dumbledore. When he learns of an informant it sends the Order into disaray. Can he uncover the identity of the traitor before his own true loyalty is revealed? What price is he willing to pay for his redemption? And can a man like Severus Snape ever be worthy of love?
A Death Eater and a Werewolf already on the brink of death are not the priorities in a hospital full of injured patients following the Battle of Hogwarts. They are shoved into a side room and left to die, so will have to help each other if they wish to live.
AKA: A good old hospital Snupin
Monsters by Gertrude_Crow
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.
– short platonic fic. Remus wakes to find the thing he fears most in the world. He goes to the only person he can think of who won’t judge him.
The Illusion of Transparency by BunnyBopper
When it is clear that Remus is struggling under the weight of being his spy, Dumbledore once again enlists a begrudged Severus Snape to help him. Under the pressures of war, the two become closer. But why is Remus the only person whose thoughts Severus can’t hear? And when the Dark Lord decides the werewolves are more trouble than they are worth, Severus has a choice to make.
He couldn’t understand why the man insisted on bringing the potion to him personally each night. At first, he had written it off as some kind of power play; a message that while Remus wasn’t welcome in his space, Severus was more than comfortable to invade his. Or maybe the message was that he didn’t trust Remus to drink it without supervision. Both those things could still play a part in it but lately, it had grown into something… difficult to define.
Creature Comforts by BunnyBopper
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.
Remus and Severus are paired to work together in Care of Magical Creatures in 6th year. Neither one is too happy with the arrangement at first.
One Thousand Galleons by KALA
Remus never expected that his time away would give him the perfect resume for teaching at Hogwarts, nor did he expect that his return would spark both conflict and resolution. If only he could get the Potion’s Professor to understand how sorry he is for the way things turned out. “What is the price for your forgiveness?” “One Thousand Galleons.”
He thinks of Evan’s last request, a promise hastily made in the summer twilight of a mangled youth. He hadn’t meant it at the time, not truly. Never intended to let someone in as he had Evan, never intended to live long enough to need it. He won’t admit that he needs the protection. But looking at Remus knelt before him, hands clinging to his in silent oath, Severus wants it. Or, how Severus handles war, pain, and something like love.
To Regain Lost Time by lordhellebore
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.
(beautiful angsty sickfic) Remus has been captured and tortured into insanity by Voldemort. Four months after his return, Severus finds out something that turns his whole world upside down. He has been horribly wrong about Remus in the past and has taken away their chance to be happy. Now it’s too late – isn’t it?
Lay Down Your Armour (be with me forever) by BlueSundayCake
(trans snape) In which two boys kiss and everything falls apart. A story told over a decade of encounters, where a body feels like a graveyard and another like a battlefield, and names are whispered tenderly until they feel real.
Lying in hospital after the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin has a lovely lucid dream that he’s gone back to his school days at Hogwarts. Only the day passes, then another, and another, and soon he must face the terrifying possibility that it isn’t a dream — that he has irreparably altered the events of the past.
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.
OotP AU. Snape stops Harry from charging into the Ministry, saving his life and Sirius’s. However, for every heroic action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
(AKA the one where Snape’s cover is blown.)
The secret language of plants by Endrina
“Just… tell me. Tell me what is going on, Snape.”
What was going on was that Severus Snape had no trouble tracking down one Petunia Evans, now Dursley, to a little town in Surrey where he saw how exactly she was treating her nephew. Which somehow led to last night and Severus knocking on Lupin’s door with a toddler half-asleep in his arms.
“To be free of your lycanthropy,” the old witch tells Remus, “you must sacrifice something dear in exchange. And considering the nature of your curse…the dearest.”
Remus never realized it meant Severus.
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.
On a sleepless night, Remus Lupin finds himself alone in the Hogwarts Owlery. He scribbles a note on a spare bit of parchment and sends it out into the dark night. What happens when someone answers?Three times Remus caught Severus Snape smoking.
Haunted by the ghost of a former student, an ex-wizard struggles to preserve magical knowledge for future generations.
When Harry Potter died, twin wands’ explosion wiped Europe clean of magic. Enchantment-free, Gringotts crumbled into a mass grave for goblin bodies. Pixie corpses covered the meadows. Romanians buried their last dragon.
Wizards remained. Thousands flooded Muggle streets with useless chanting, unable to return home through non-existent wards.
They had nothing except pride. Remember that when watching a middle-aged, redheaded waitress and her daughter taunted by children for their strange way of talking, passing the sallow-faced, somber neighbour who prefers candles to electricity, finding a sky-blue twinkle under matted hair of a homeless man.
Pride was the reason they survived.
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.
Hogwarts, Eighth Year. Harry Potter must choose: talk about a secret or keep it. Place trust in one teacher or keep silent. Speak up in support of a war hero or let the weight of public opinion take its toll. Will Harry’s reflection in the Mirror of Erised offer guidance? Mirror is a choice and consequence game with ~12,000 words of dialogue. What’s next, treacle tart or flying? Was it really Snape that Harry saw in the Mirror of Erised? Will Harriet tell the Headmistress all about her crush on Ginny Weasley? Will Harry ever feel as free on the ground as he does in the sky with Ron? Will Severus Snape keep his job? It’s up to you.
The Measure of a Man by Acid
Several years after defeating Voldemort, Junior Auror Harry Potter discovers himself and, at the risk of losing his childhood love, follows the truth. Through it all, Snape is an unexpected solace. Will he become more?
Harry’s journey through Severus Snape’s memories uncovers an unexpected mystery. Without the guidance of Dumbledore’s portrait, will Harry ever follow the breadcrumbs left for him to make sense of the long-lost truth?
The Bravest Man by Acid
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.
“There once lived a man in the house by the river.” Isn’t that how all good stories start?
The Bravest Man is a comic strip about Severus and Harry with each page posted as a separate chapter on AO3.
Happiness, as Severus discovered, was as simple as a warm drink, an engaging read, and an occasionally indulged, rather scandalous fetish for being left alone in the quiet corner with a book. Naturally, such peculiar inclinations made it rather difficult to find a place in London that suited all of his needs.
The Underground satisfied all three.
The guilty pleasure of a Polyjuiced one-night stand at an underground magical kink club sparks an emotional connection.
One day, the young Defence professor Potter encounters the greasy git paired with dessert he didn’t quite bargain for.
Theriac (from Latin thēriaca – an antidote to poison): a paste formerly used as an antidote to snake venom, made from sixty to seventy different drugs pulverised and mixed with honey. Also, treacle.
Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage
Shapes in the Deep by Acid, Cailynwrites, Taxonomic
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.
In Greater Marrow, there are but a few simple rules to survive the night: porch lights stay on till dawn, quirky fish dishes are a standard fare, and the fog keeps everyone inside after sunset. Newcomer Harry learns this from the gruff bartender who tends to the lighthouse beacon. What lurks in the fog — surely, not monsters? Would the press discover Harry’s private hideaway? And why does his new acquaintance remind Harry of Severus Snape? Let’s find out.
What if during Chapter 32 of Deathly Hallows, ‘The Elder Wand’, Hermione Granger made the rash decision to save Severus Snape in the Shrieking Shack? And can she deal with the aftereffects? SS/HG. EWE. Post DH. Permanent physical disability, written realistically.
Ghosts and masks is a fic about the struggles an undiagnosed neurodivergent Snape goes through at different points in his life, particularly with self image, hyperfixation, and navigating social situations.
Coming to Terms by GulJeri, GulJerry (GulJeri)
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.
High school chemistry teacher Severus Snape comes to terms with HIV and mental illness while forging a new ally in nurse Harry Potter.
Article covering autistic-coded characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Adrian Monk, and our own Severus Snape
Fansplaining Episode 186 A & B: Disability and Fandom
Deep dive into all aspects of disability and fandom
21-year-old Severus Snape kills Peter Pettigrew to prevent the rat from revealing the Potters’ whereabouts. The war is won but Severus’ life is destroyed. Tortured and disfigured, he disappears into the shadows… until one day he is arrested and meets Alastor Moody. Under Moody’s fatherly affections, Severus discovers that he can have a new life, even if it entails working in a toy shop with Sirius fucking Black…
The Shadows Trilogy by Resmiranda
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.
No longer available, the author took it down and asked it not be posted again, but it features a blind!Snape and explored how magic can be used to cope with disability in multiple ways — mimicking muggle methods, replacing damaged organs, or working around it entirely (in this case with advanced arithmancy where he would “see” by predicting everyone’s actions)
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!
Tempest in the Potions Lab
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 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.
how much of what we think we know about the Harry Potter universe owes more to fanfiction than to the books themselves?
Whitehound’s site has many excellent essays, including the amazing Where is Spinner’s End?
After the second war, Hermione’s life isn’t working out as she’d planned. Dealing with the trauma inflicted on her by Bellatrix, the fact that Ron and his family are forever changed by Fred’s death, survivour’s guilt, and her parents’ ignorance of her very existence have all left her aimless and desperate to feel like she can still make a difference in the world. Hermione decides to go back in time to complete her education in 1977, hoping to change Severus Snape’s mind about joining the Death Eaters and to avoid all the tragedy of the second war – only to find out the line between the past and the present is not as simple as she’d once believed.
The problem is that Severus is excitedly looking forward to his future. Despite every attempt to break his spirit, he has survived, and he can’t wait to be on the winning team for once, to show the world what he is made of.
The Coward
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.
Minerva has to face her fears as Snape’s portrait is finally ready to be hung on the wall at her new office
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
Snape Chat 