“I only want to talk.”

“You’re a middle-aged man who just wants to talk,” he makes air quotes with his fingers to emphasize his words, “to a kid. That’s not weird or creepy at all.”

Severus blows out a heavy breath. “Fine. What if I buy you breakfast somewhere? You seem like you could use a meal.”

“Are you trying to bribe me?”

“Call it a deal. You eat, I speak, you listen. Perhaps you’ll even speak as well and I will listen. Sound fair?”

Harry hesitates. “Sounds like a trap to me, but… whatever.”

OR

In which a homeless Harry Potter reads his Hogwarts acceptance letter while sitting in a sticky booth at a McDonald’s in London.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

It is the week after Christmas, 1991, but for Harry Potter that is no longer true. Instead, he finds himself stepping off the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross Station at the beginning of the Christmas hols. His parents greet him with hugs and Harry is drawn into a loving Christmas holiday at Godric's Hollow.

They have been dead for years but now they are alive-- and it's the best thing that has ever happened to Harry.

It is the week after Christmas, 1991, and Harry Potter gazes into the Mirror of Erised, unmoving. He will die, soon enough-- unless something is done-- for the Mirror has him in its power.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

"Twenty some odd children and yet you’re the only one who comes back into the castle with frostbite.”

Harry sighed. So they were back on that.

“Look on the bright side. At least I came back at all.”

Professor Snape scowled. “You are not nearly as humorous as you believe yourself to be.”

OR

It's the winter holidays, and Harry just wants to play with his new friends in the snow. If only Professor Snape didn't have to be such a fuddy-duddy about it.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Hufflepuff!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Fic Fests > Winter fest 2021, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

It was strange, to say the least, to see it in a child so young, suffering so much.

A child whom Severus and the majority of the wizarding world had thought to be a spoilt prince with a heart beating contemptibly.

Severus hated being wrong.

***

Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin, which automatically makes his problems Severus' problems. Like, more so than usual. Severus, being the ridiculously responsible professor that he is, has an important discussion with the boy.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

If nothing else, Harry had always received a gift from Santa. When his first Christmas at Hogwarts lacks a visit from Old Saint Nick, Harry's dour Potions Professor to provide some insight on the matter and inadvertently, himself.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Kind
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Unofficially teaching Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape