Seven year old Harry Potter is the proverbial ugly duckling; small, scrawny, scruffy and (thanks to Dudley Dursley) solitary. However, one day Harry discovers, in a lonely clump of weed, this beautiful black swan … Entrant in the 2011 Fic Exchange. Written for Bil.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Fic Fests > #13 Fic Exchange 2011

Harry Potter and Mark Evans hung onto each other for dear life in Little Whinging. For three years Harry worried about leaving Mark behind when he left for Hogwarts, and when Mark discovers he’s a wizard, and that Harry’s one too, he finally gets the chance to repay Harry for all the kindness showed him.

Takes Place: 5th summer, 5th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Angry, Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Snape is Mean, Snape is Stern
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Injured!Harry, Sibling Addition
Categories: Healer Snape, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Everyone thought Harry's scar came from Voldemort. But they were wrong. The scar was the sign of a rare & terrible gift, the power to call monstrous storms. A power that could save or destroy Harry unless he learns to harness it. Can Snape & Lily help him master his terrible gift? Or will he self-destruct . . .and take the world with him?

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Healer Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry

As far as Harry knew, it was all some sort of experiment that only Dumbledore could understand. He had no idea that the cat he had been given to keep him company instead of Hedwig over the holidays before his 3rd year, was in fact, his hated Potions Master in disguise.

Because of the Azkaban escapee, Sirius Black, Severus is sent to stay with Harry during the entire summer, never making a sound nor leaving the boy's side. He could not speak, nor could he defend Harry against anyone other than the criminal on the loose, however Severus does something that no other adult in Harry's life had done before...he listened.

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Creature!fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape

Response to Into the Depths' challenge: What would have happened if Harry wasn't quick enough for Malfoy and the Cruciatus Curse was used on him? What happens when Snape hears his and Myrtle's screams and saves him?

Takes Place: 7th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV