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Young Again by JAWorley starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 28]
When a potion explodes in NEWT Potions class, Severus Snape finds himself in an interesting predicament… he really hates when people stare at him. Ron thinks Harry has a hero complex when he tries to help Snape, but has no idea that Harry is the one that needs saving. A one-shot.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Deaged!Snape, Deaging, Spying on Harry! Snape
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect, Physical Punishment Non-Spanking, Suicide Themes, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Jun 2017 / 22 Jun 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Potions Prodigy by watercrystals starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 45]
When Harry arrived at Hogwarts, no one expected Professor Snape to be his favourite teacher – no one, except the mysteriously familiar witch teaching DADA.

AU. Romance tag is for Lily/Severus, but isn't relevant until later in the story.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Romance/Het
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 11 Jul 2017 / 25 Jun 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Time to Choose by RitaRevenant starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 97]
Harry finds himself having to unravel a mystery across time when he is forced to spend the summer with his Potions Master and Snape's estranged family. Who is the boy Harry keeps meeting at unexpected moments and why is it that Snape suddenly starts to develop some slightly more human qualities as the two slowly come to understand one another?

Takes Place: 6th summer, 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Loving, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Disguised!Harry, Time Travel
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 15 - Completed: No - Updated: 18 Sep 2022 / 17 Sep 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None
Hogwarts Herself by lastcrazyhorn starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 16]
“You aren’t afraid of me. Why?” He asked, head cocked to the side as he openly studied Harry.

Harry’s smile was brilliant.

“Because you aren’t scary.”

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape is Mean
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Jul 2017 / 16 Jul 2017
Series: Assumptions - Challenges: None
The Serpent's Gaze, Book Two: Slytherin's Secrets by DictionaryWrites starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 22]
The Chamber of Secrets is open, and the horrors within are illuminated by dismal torchlight, squinting down at their thick journals and handwritten notes as they peer around the room. The abandoned halls, long-since built by Salazar Slytherin, are crawling with them... Historians.

Harry's second year at Hogwarts looks to be even more eventful than his first.

Takes Place: 2nd summer, 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity, Torture
Chapters: 18 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Oct 2017 / 07 Oct 2017
Series: The Serpent's Gaze - Challenges: None
Cripple Me by krosi starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 149]
Severus Snape hates Harry Potter. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing. Not even the boy’s sudden intrusion in his life. Or that cheeky smile. Or that all too innocent look. Or the sudden shift in his relationship with the Potter whelp. Not even those green eyes. No, nothing will ever change Severus’s hatred for Harry Potter – no matter how fond of him he was becoming. An eventual Snape adopts Harry story. Beginning in Harry’s first year.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape Comforts, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Physical Punishment Spanking
Chapters: 39 - Completed: No - Updated: 23 Apr 2024 / 10 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Learning Friendship by krosi starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 94]
Severus Snape is cursed with an affliction that has him human by day and a centaur, named Ajax, by night. One night, Ajax rescues a lonely eleven-year-old Harry Potter and a bond forms between them. They meet each night from that point forward. As Ajax, Severus learns more about Harry than he would have ever wanted to learn. But without revealing himself to Harry, how can Severus help this orphaned boy?

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape
Tags: Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 24 - Completed: No - Updated: 13 Sep 2022 / 11 Oct 2017
Series: None - Challenges: Potions, Snitches and Hooves
The Serpent's Gaze, Book Five: The Lernaean Hydra by DictionaryWrites starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 7]
The Lernaean Hydra has many heads, and it seems as if you will never cut them all away. It's near immortal - as if it will never die.

With the death of a man he never expected, the wizarding war is tipped into motion, but Harry Potter doesn't feel prepared to approach it.

Mixed POV: changes between Harry Potter's and Severus Snape's.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Controlling, Snape is Cruel, Snape is Depressed, Snape is Desperate, Snape is Kind, Snape is Mean, Snape is Secretive, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Character Death, Profanity, Romance/Het, Romance/Slash, Suicide Themes, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 21 - Completed: No - Updated: 14 Jun 2018 / 14 Oct 2017
Series: The Serpent's Gaze - Challenges: None
Thirty one plus one by Hopeless Wanderer starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 46]
Harry's only rejoice in these last few months is that he has his list. He would go down for sure, but before he does, he wants to make sure he gets to do everything on the list. To die without any regret. But what does Snape have to do with this?

Takes Place: 5th Year, 6th summer - Snape flavour: Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Evil, Snape is Kind, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape, Snape is Secretive
Tags: Physical Impairment
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Bullying
Chapters: 18 - Completed: No - Updated: 05 Aug 2019 / 29 Dec 2017
Series: None - Challenges: None
Truth's Like Blood Underneath Your Fingernails by ChoicesWeMake starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 35]
It is late in the evening, but Severus Snape is finally ready to sit back in his chair beside a steaming cup and contemplate. Because Merlin's beard, is there a lot to contemplate. He finally lets himself feel the emotions churning mutedly inside him as he stares into the flames hissing in his hearth. Nothing that happened today is what he expected, and he is not prepared, not at all prepared, for a Potter in his house...

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Snape's a Bully, Canon Snape, Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Bullying, Neglect
Chapters: 9 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Mar 2018 / 31 Jan 2018
Series: None - Challenges: None

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