Harry has a plan to bring back Sirius and erase the guilt he feels about the Department of Mysteries debacle. It's not a very well thought out plan, but it's still a plan. It comes as no surprise when his plan goes awry. Can he possibly save more than just Sirius? And what does a teenage Severus Snape have to do with his success?

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Time Travel
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry

Ron finds it very strange that Harry doesn’t find an abusive teacher to be strange at all. And Hermione and he have a bit of a battle over bravery.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

But the Slytherins didn't treat him like a freak. They didn’t make him do their cooking or cleaning because the house-elves did all that. They didn’t smack him around if he didn’t do their homework for them because they didn’t ask him to do their homework. Harry wondered if maybe he was settling into the Slytherins too fast, but he dismissed the thought with a smile. For the first time in a really long time, Harry realized, he was happy.

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No one had been shocked when Harry Potter- boy-who-lived, savior of the wizarding world - was sorted into Slytherin house more than Severus Snape. And no one, bar maybe the boy himself, had been more enraged when Harry Potter was taken out of the dungeons and placed high in Gryffindor tower than Severus Snape, either. Which meant that it would be up to one Severus Snape to bring his snake back to where he belonged, Dumbledore's plan be damned.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Evil!Albus, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Following the disasterous Third Task, Harry begins to notice two things about himself. First: his appearence has begun to change. Second: something is very very wrong. The Cruciatus shouldn't continue to be causing him pain this far out from having received it, should it?

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: Disguised!Harry, Injured!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Physical Impairment
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge

With his dark appearance, piercing, cold eyes, and snarky character, he had become the local bogeyman parents ordered their children to stay away from. That’s why Severus was astonished to catch a sound of someone singing under his windows this Christmas night, breaking his pleasant solitude.

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape