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Severus has seen many a kind of strangeness in his years of life. However, none seem to even grace the presence of one certain mystery - Harry Potter. The boy leads trouble from the moment he set foot on the stones of Hogwarts, and yet, the troubles seem deeper and much darker than usual.

The more he tries to untangle the mystery of a certain Potter, the more he gets tangles in the mess. Will it be that Severus can know Harry, or will it be that he looses his own identity?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Animagus!Harry, Depression Recovery, Evil!Albus, Runaway, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Bashing, Character Death, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 4 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 Sep 2022 / 22 Aug 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Severus meets the Dursleys, as he is to accompany Harry Potter to Hogwarts. He is shown where Harry sleeps and is infuriated by the treatment the boy has received. Read on to see just how far he'll go to save Harry.

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 2 - Completed: No - Updated: 24 Oct 2022 / 19 Oct 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
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
Rated: K - Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Dec 2022 / 13 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: None
Responding to JAWorley's Just Pretending Challenge:
Severus is in big trouble. He doesn't have any kids, but he's supposed to be bringing his son to Christmas to meet his family, who he's been estranged from for twelve or thirteen (or more) years. Harry ends up being that pretend son.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Out of Character Snape, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Out of Character, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 11 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jan 2023 / 10 Dec 2022
Series: None - Challenges: Just Pretending (For Christmas)
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.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape Spanks, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Physical Abuse, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 15 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 Jul 2023 / 16 Jan 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
After Harry accidentally deages himself to a baby during a Potions class, Severus is tasked with aging Harry back up to his correct age before any word gets out on Harry's condition. Severus is less than thrilled with the new job, and Harry is less than thrilled with his new caretaker. A novella, will contain mild CP. Set in the fifth year.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape
Tags: Deaged!Harry, Deaging
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 6 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Mar 2024 / 29 Jan 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Harry's life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a mysterious letter from his late mother revealing his wizarding heritage. As letters continue to arrive in massive numbers, Harry's already difficult life with his relatives becomes unbearable. Just when Harry thinks he can't take it anymore, a dark stranger appears offering to take him away to a new world, full of magic.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery, Injured!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 3 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Mar 2023 / 14 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
Third year brings new troubles to Hogwarts, but none more than Harry Potter with the breakout the Dark Lord's right hand man, Sirius Black. Determined to finish what his master failed, Harry is sent back to the Dursleys where he can be safe within the blood wards and not allowed to visit the Weasleys at all nor contact his friends. To make sure of this, Hedwig is forbidden from being taken back to the Dursleys, yet after Sirius is sighted near Privet Drive, Professor Snape is forced to take control of Harry as an apprentice. However, when Snape arrives at Privet Drive, he discovers that Potter is missing. Is it Black that kidnapped him? Is it someone or something else more sinister? Harry is found in an unlikely place and taken away, forbidden from contact with his friends as he is thrust into the role of apprentice. Yet amidst these troubles, Harry discovers something about himself and a hidden crime that only a murder and his best friends know, something that may change Harry's future for the better...or the worst.

Takes Place: 3rd Year, 4th summer, 4th Year, 5th summer, 5th Year, 6th summer, 6th Year, 7th summer, 7th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Addicted!Harry, Animagus!Harry, Creature!fic, Dragons, Elf!Harry, Hospitalization, Injured!Harry, Injured!Snape, Kidnapped, Kidnapped!Harry, New Identity!Harry, Resorting, Sibling Addition, Werewolf!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Fic Fests > Bingo! Fic Fest, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Drug use, Neglect, Panic attack, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 3 - Completed: No - Updated: 09 Aug 2023 / 14 Feb 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Aesop's Fable, Taken, Bathtime, Another School, Stolen , Other wizarding cultures
Summer after fifth year: Why did everything bad happen to Harry Potter? Why did it always have to be Severus who picked up the pieces? And why did the kid in Severus’ neighbourhood had to be such a Hufflepuff?

Interrupted in his well-earned summer holidays of tending to his vegetable garden and just reading a lot of sciene fiction, Severus Snape is sent to track down one runaway Harry Potter.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Angry, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape's a Bully
Tags: Adoption, Runaway
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse
Chapters: 26 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Mar 2024 / 26 Mar 2023
Series: None - Challenges: None
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Harry is struggling after the death of Sirius. While stomping around Grimmauld, he stumbles across a mysterious artefact that answers the question, 'What If?'

Wasn't written as a response to the challenge Mirror, Mirror, but fits nicely with it nonetheless.

Takes Place: None - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 26 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 May 2024 / 14 Jun 2023
Series: None - Challenges: Mirror, Mirror

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