He decided to stop reminding the teachers that he didn’t have any parents to make presents for, too. Instead, he did the projects as he was told, writing Happy Christmas, Happy Mother’s Day, Happy Father’s Day, and signing empty “I love you’s” to people who did not exist for him. He decided not to throw them away like Aunt Petunia had done with his either, and instead saved them like she had with Dudley’s presents. He kept them under the mattress on the cot in his cupboard like he did with all other things that were precious to him, which really didn’t amount to much.
Harry often wondered what it would be like to have a parent who treasured his handmade gifts like Aunt Petunia did with Dudley, a parent who didn’t see his presence as a nuisance. Maybe that’s why he kept these things, for the hope that someday, maybe, he’d have someone he could give them to. Someone who would treat them as a keepsake, someone who would treat him like something of value.
Maybe someday.
Takes Place: 3rd summer
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Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
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Rated: K
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Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Jun 2023 / 18 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Jun 2023 / 18 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year after a miserable summer at the Dursleys. When Draco finds out what is really happening at his relative's house, he opens Pandora's box into a decade-old secret changing the lives of Harry and several Slytherins forever. Add to it a new defense teacher, two overprotective godfathers, and a deadly tournament, Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts will be the most chaotic yet.
Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Takes Place: 4th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 12 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Mar 2024 / 14 Aug 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 12 - Completed: No - Updated: 07 Mar 2024 / 14 Aug 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry's newfound parseltongue ability brings about newfound friends.
Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 31 Oct 2023 / 31 Oct 2023
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Updated: 31 Oct 2023 / 31 Oct 2023
Series: that's the thing about illicit affairs - Challenges: None
“Are those carnations?”
Harry looked over to see a tall, thin man wearing dark clothes. Harry thought that he must be rather hot in the summer heat. “Yeah. They are.”
The man nodded, then asked after a slight hesitation, “Do you recognize me?”
Harry shook his head, flummoxed. “Should I?”
The man sighed. “Yes.”
“Oh,” was all Harry could think to say. “I’m sorry.”
It's summer break, and Harry is enjoying the two months off of school with his family. A strange man keeps trying to talk to him, however, and he increasingly begins to feel that something is not right.
Keep looking. For oddities. You will find them.
Takes Place: 5th summer
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Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Desperate
Tags: Kidnapped
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 Sep 2023 / 05 Sep 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 Sep 2023 / 05 Sep 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Something is off with Professor Snape and it falls to Harry and, of all people, Sirius Black to find out what is going on. Can enemies help each other?
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Depressed
Tags: Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Depressed
Tags: Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Out of Character
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Sep 2023 / 13 Sep 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 30 Sep 2023 / 13 Sep 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
A prophecy is only real when allowed to occur naturally, so when a series of unexpected events happen in the summer before 5th year, a second prophecy long lost deep in the Ministry of Magic awakens, telling of rare magic and an incredible bond to be forged between the most unlikely people. This magic and bond will be the end of the Dark Lord.
Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape Disciplines , Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 50 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Apr 2024 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 50 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Apr 2024 / 11 Nov 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry loses something of great value. He doesn't lose it. It is taken. It is not lost. It has been stolen.
Snape has got something to do with it.
Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Alternate Universe, Depression Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Eating Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse, Violence
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jan 2024 / 10 Dec 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Harry's Journal
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jan 2024 / 10 Dec 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Harry's Journal
During a Christmas sleepover, Harry and his friends watch a scary Dracula movie without Severus’s permission. After a string of circumstantial evidence, Harry and the others become convinced that Severus is a vampire.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Out of Character Snape, Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jan 2024 / 01 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 Jan 2024 / 01 Jan 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
When Harry blows up Aunt Marge, Dumbledore decides he can't be left to his own devices in Diagon Alley for the whole of August and sends him to stay with the only person available - one highly displeased Severus Snape. Harry, for his part, doesn't think this summer could get any worse. After all, what could be more unpleasant than living with Professor Snape?
Finding out that Draco Malfoy is also staying at Spinner’s End, of course.
None of them know how they'll survive a month in each others' company, but they might just come out the other side with something they all need the most: a family.
Takes Place: 3rd summer, 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Cranky
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Adoption, Sibling Addition
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T
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Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Panic attack, Profanity
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Apr 2024 / 29 Mar 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None
Chapters: 45 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Apr 2024 / 29 Mar 2024
Series: None - Challenges: None