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After the third task of the Triwizard Tournament, life in Privet Drive is even more horrible for Harry. Nightmares, chores, punishments... But his life will change when he finds a black cat.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Adoption, Animagus!Snape, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Snape-meets-Dursleys, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Reverse Roles > Healer Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Physical Punishment Spanking, Neglect, Profanity
Chapters: 11 - Completed: No - Updated: 26 Feb 2017 / 22 Aug 2016
Series: None - Challenges: None
The Ministry removes Harry from the 'care' of the Dursley's at the age of three, placing him in the 'National Harry Potter Exhibit and Museum'. Harry spends six years blissfully unaware that every day dozens of people are paying to watch him go about his day through spelled walls. His every whim is catered to by a team of five caretakers, until the Ministry decides to close the exhibit down. Harry is placed in the care of Severus Snape, who must reverse the boy's spoiled upbringing and teach him to be a normal child again.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Adoption, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 27 Aug 2016 / 23 Aug 2016
Series: None - Challenges: None
Thanks to James' sacrifice, Lord Voldemort is defeated. Lily barely survives and is rescued by Severus. Years later Harry struggles to live side by side with his hateful and unforgiving stepfather in a very troubled household. Unbeknownst to both much greater challenges lie ahead.

Takes Place: 0 - Before Harry is born, 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st summer before Hogwarts, 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Controlling, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Amnesia, Child fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Stepfather Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Physical Punishment Spanking, Neglect, Profanity, Romance/Het, Violence
Chapters: 13 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 May 2017 / 11 Sep 2016
Series: None - Challenges: None
Hogwarts has enacted a house-exchange program in the interest of increasing inter-house unity and understanding. Students fourth year and up can visit other houses for two weeks if they sign up. Harry has a morbid curiosity about what it might have been like to be sorted into Slytherin.
In Response to the House Exchange Program prompt by JAWorley.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry, Injured!Harry, Ravenclaw!Harry, Resorting, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 6 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 20 Dec 2017 / 30 Nov 2017
Series: None - Challenges: House Exchange Program
Hogwarts offers an informational meeting for all the muggle-raised first years. Harry decides to go. The only trouble is that his relatives would never take him.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Runaway, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 09 Apr 2017 / 04 Apr 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Parent informational meeting
Blaise probably couldn't expect much, this time. Blaise was a Death Eater's kid, raised by, if not always Death Eaters, at least not blood traitors. Molly Weasley's soul was so clean it squeaked. It was a good thing Blaise had Snape to fall back on, for awhile. Mrs. Weasley was just too...not a Death Eater. Way, way too not a Death Eater to want to keep Blaise for very long.

Takes Place: 1st Year, 2nd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 9 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Mar 2019 / 19 Feb 2017
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. The pride of a Slytherin is in his resource and cunning, and in the serpent's discerning gaze. At Hogwarts, Harry Potter learns to value pride, loyalty, and poison over mercy. Slytherin!Harry, platonic H&Hr duo, shipping later. Featuring ambiguous heroes, equivocal villains, and original and canon characters alike.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 20 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 Oct 2017 / 30 Sep 2017
Series: The Serpent's Gaze - Challenges: None
After little Harry Potter runs away from his relatives’ home for the sixth time, Albus decides something drastic must happen. Instead of sending a friendly witch from family services like he had done before, he sends Severus Snape in hopes of scaring the boy into staying put. But when a blizzard interferes with plans, Severus learns why Harry keeps running away and a change of plans ensues.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 36 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 May 2024 / 23 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Runaway
When an Occlumency lesson goes wrong, Snape learns more about Harry’s past than he ever wanted to—and it changes everything. But change doesn’t come easily, especially for two who have spent five years loathing each other’s very existence. Can Snape and Harry come to a mutual understanding of sorts to defeat their greatest enemy—themselves? Spring of 5th year, A/U. Completely written and posted in chapter installments.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Stern
Tags: Injured!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Physical Punishment Spanking, Neglect, Rape, Romance/Het, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 40 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Oct 2017 / 26 May 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus and Remus raise Harry after his parents are killed.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Physical Punishment Spanking, Neglect, Out of Character
Chapters: 6 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 23 Aug 2017 / 26 Apr 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Moony & Sev's Child

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