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

Professor Snape can't understand why his 6th year class is so imbalanced. He decides it is time to find out why his Slytherins are falling behind.

Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

It's Harry Potter's first year teaching DADA at Hogwarts under Headmaster Snape. It's a job that makes him feel good and put together like an adult, until a student comes to tell him something about her home life that takes Harry right back to his own troubled childhood.

Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind
Tags: Abuse Recovery
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Colleague Snape and Harry, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape

During Harry's third year at Hogwarts, he faces a Boggart during a DADA lesson. Harry's Boggart takes a form that no one expects, and Remus investigates the matter. Conversations dance around the issue, but Harry was not as elusive as he thinks he was.

Takes Place: 3rd Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Healer Snape

He decided to stop reminding the teachers that he didn’t have any parents to make presents for, too. Instead, he did the projects as he was told, writing Happy Christmas, Happy Mother’s Day, Happy Father’s Day, and signing empty “I love you’s” to people who did not exist for him. He decided not to throw them away like Aunt Petunia had done with his either, and instead saved them like she had with Dudley’s presents. He kept them under the mattress on the cot in his cupboard like he did with all other things that were precious to him, which really didn’t amount to much.

Harry often wondered what it would be like to have a parent who treasured his handmade gifts like Aunt Petunia did with Dudley, a parent who didn’t see his presence as a nuisance. Maybe that’s why he kept these things, for the hope that someday, maybe, he’d have someone he could give them to. Someone who would treat them as a keepsake, someone who would treat him like something of value.

Maybe someday.

Takes Place: 3rd summer - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving
Tags: Adoption
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape